As of the end of last year, Microsoft had installed more than 600 million Windows 10 systems worldwide, and desktop market share exceeded 31%. However, Windows 10 still did not surpass Windows 7's brilliance. Especially in the gaming market, Windows 7 is used on the Steam platform. The system's players still occupy more than 70% of the share, and Windows10 is only about 23%, which is a far cry from far.
However, the Windows 7 system on the new generation of platforms is a bit inconvenient. AMD's APU - Ryzen 5 2400G, Ryzen 3 2200G AMD recently exploded Win7 compatibility issues, can not light up the system on this platform, the root cause is AMD's BIOS, to change can only hope that AMD will launch a new BIOS code.
AMD's Ruilong APU is very cost-effective. CPU performance benefits from the increase in frequency. GPU performance cannot be overlooked. It is no problem to play mainstream online games. In short, it is very suitable for general home and office use, so it is very popular with the market.
However, after the players started Ryzen 5 2400G or Ryzen 3 2200G, they had trouble installing the system. If you plan to install Windows 7 on this platform, you will not be able to start. You will have BSOD BSOD problem. In other words, there is no way to use Windows 7 on the Aspire platform.
Riddit and some forums have in-depth discussions on this issue. The source of the problem lies in the energy management function in the BIOS. AMD integrates the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) functions in the BIOS, but Windows 7 does not support this ACPI function and cannot start. Players want to use other means - such as Replace the single display rather than set the boot, the results will not work, but still can not bypass.
The problem now is that unless AMD and motherboard manufacturers update the BIOS code, there is no solution to the problem. The Aspire APU is unable to install the Windows 7 system.
Behind this problem, AMD and Intel actually stated earlier that the new generation of processors will only support Windows 10 systems. For example, when Intel released it from the Kaby Lake processor, there was a similar practice, but they did not completely block users. The possibility of installing a Windows 7 system, there are still a lot of workarounds online.
It is not easy to say that AMD’s current problems are unintentional or intentional. However, for Windows 7 systems, Microsoft has already sentenced it to death. In 2015, it stopped supporting it. Now it only expands the support phase. That means only There will be updates such as security patches, but no new features will be added. It is unlikely that Microsoft will support AMD's ACPI management for Windows 7.
