windows 7 on a i5-12500H and RTX 3050 laptop help

[alexthetechie1]

I was wondering if I can successfully install windows 7 on an Acer nitro V with mostly all the drivers fully functioning I’ve gotten it to install partially in the past but it locks up on “starting windows” after first reboot and first boot off the m.2

Specs:

Intel Core i5-12500H 3.10Ghz 12th Gen 12 Cores Alder Lake

Intel Iris Xe Graphics 128MB BIOS VRAM 8129MB Total VRAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU 4096MB

OS: 1TB M.2 SSD WD Green

Backup: 1.92TB SATA Lexar SSD

16GB DDR4 (2x 8GB DDR4)

Killer E2600 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX16501 160MHz

Realtek HD Audio

[Dixel]

4 hours ago, alexthetechie1 said:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU 4096MB

No drivers for Windows 7/8/8_and_a_half exist.

[Dixel]

Some reported success with RTX3080, so if you still can return that notebook and replace it, perhaps worth a try, but then again, no 100% guarantees.