Will Windows 10 Installs from ISO USB still accept Windows 8 Keys?

Question: If you are in an organization where there are lots of the same computers, do you know of anyone else who has the same model computer with the same hardware?

If so, you can export the drivers from their system and them import them to your system.

If that is the case, let me know and I'll give you a procedure.

Hi, @hsehestedt

I am not unfortunately , dont know anyone with the same laptop

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One more question:

Do you have any one of the following:

1) A backup of the system from when all drivers were present.
2) An OEM recovery partition from which you could TEMPORARILY recover the original factory installation to allow us to grab the drivers.
3) External recovery media.

Hi, @Megahertz

Megahertz said:

PCI Simple Communications Controller (Intel chipset driver) has been installed.

Okay. That first link though, on the lenovo site for it, it says it's compatible for a list of laptops that does not include mine:
Lenovo System Update for Windows 11, 10 & 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Desktop, Notebook, Workstation - Lenovo Support US I can go ahead and try it just hope it doesn't cause any conflicting issues?





the other driver links are saying the same thing, they seem to be for specific systems
Lenovo ACPI Driver for Windows 10 (64-bit) - ThinkCentre M93z - Lenovo Support TW
Supported Systems: ThinkCentre M93z



I also download Lenovos
system update software Lenovo System Update: Update Drivers, BIOS and Applications - Lenovo Support US
But when running it it did not find any updates or drivers needed.


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Sorry I dont know how to separate these posts to different people, the forums keeps combing them with my previous posts even though Im making them separately.
@hsehestedt

hsehestedt said:

One more question:

Do you have any one of the following:

1) A backup of the system from when all drivers were present.
2) An OEM recovery partition from which you could TEMPORARILY recover the original factory installation to allow us to grab the drivers.
3) External recovery media.

I do not 8(. I wiped it all when installing windows 10 because it was based on windows 8.1 and did not think id need that anymore.

But I had done a factory reset prior with the Lenovo's OEM recovery partition, (One Key Recovery), it went back to 2014 on everything and with the original windows 8.1, updated windows, and it did not solve my boot issues or black screen issues, or whatever it actually is

1) Please make free or pay backup images and save the images to another disk drive or the cloud.

(Acronis, Aoemi, EaseUS, Macrium, Paragon, etc.

Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect


2) Read this tutorial on Windows Driver Verifier (WDV):

Enable and Disable Driver Verifier in Windows 10.

Learn the methods to recover from using the tool by booting into safe mode and running one or more of these commands:

verifier /reset

verifier /bootmode resetonbootfail


3) Make a new restore point.


4) Start WDV with these settings:
a) test all non-Microsoft drivers
b) test no Microsoft drivers
c) start the testing with the three customized tests in the TF link


5) If there is no immediate BSOD then open administrative command prompt and copy and paste:

verifier /querysettings

Post a share link into this thread using one drive, drop box, or google drive.


6) For any BSOD post a new V2 share link into the newest post.


7) Do not install the Windows update drivers at this time.

Pending the outcome of the WDV testing plan to install drivers at a later time.

zbook said:

1) Please make free or pay backup images and save the images to another disk drive or the cloud.

(Acronis, Aoemi, EaseUS, Macrium, Paragon, etc.

Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect


2) Read this tutorial on Windows Driver Verifier (WDV):

Enable and Disable Driver Verifier in Windows 10.

Learn the methods to recover from using the tool by booting into safe mode and running one or more of these commands:

verifier /reset

verifier /bootmode resetonbootfail


3) Make a new restore point.


4) Start WDV with these settings:
a) test all non-Microsoft drivers
b) test no Microsoft drivers
c) start the testing with the three customized tests in the TF link



5) If there is no immediate BSOD then open administrative command prompt and copy and paste:

verifier /querysettings

Post a share link into this thread using one drive, drop box, or google drive.


6) For any BSOD post a new V2 share link into the newest post.


7) Do not install the Windows update drivers at this time.

Pending the outcome of the WDV testing plan to install drivers at a later time.

1) Are you referring to these three tests?



2) Also, for no Microsoft drivers, is that a setting that I select, or do you just mean manually uncheck anything that is a Microsoft driver in this list below?



3) it says it puts a lot of stress on the drivers, does that mean the CPU also? Can it risk damaging the computer?

4) were my HD tune and hard disk Sentinel results for both okay looking?

thanks!

1) Yes
2) Yes > scroll down to check all of the non-Microsoft drivers
3) BSOD occur to protect the hardware
If there are performance problems including very slow boot comment into this thread.
(Settings can be modified)
4) HD Tune had a false positive CRC that was not seen using HD Sentinel

BSOD after clean install are often due to malfunctioning hardware.

The computer may be having problems with the Intel GPU drivers / hardware.

Plan to run WDV with various customized test settings for 24 to 48 hours.

zbook said:

1) Yes
2) Yes > scroll down to check all of the non-Microsoft drivers
3) BSOD occur to protect the hardware
If there are performance problems including very slow boot comment into this thread.
(Settings can be modified)
4) HD Tune had a false positive CRC that was not seen using HD Sentinel

BSOD after clean install are often due to malfunctioning hardware.

The computer may be having problems with the Intel GPU drivers / hardware.

Plan to run WDV with various customized test settings for 24 to 48 hours.

Oh okay, got it.

So if there's no immediate blue screen of death, I should immediately run that command: verifier /querysetting ?
But even after that, keep WDV running for 24-48 hours?

I normally turn the laptop off, so keep it plugged in and idle for 24-48hrs,?

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Yes, run querysettings if there is no immediate BSOD.

The customized test settings will be modified if there is no BSOD.

The 24 to 48 hours are for different customized test settings.

There are a limited number of non-Microsoft drivers installed now making the WDV testing easier.

If there is a stable Intel GPU driver during WDV testing then plan to install all of the other drivers.