Hello Everyone!
I am having a problem downgrading a clients machine from Windows 8.1 64 bit to Windows 7. It boots off the Windows 7 CD, and gets to the Windows is loading files screen. The progress bar fills up and it switches to the Windows 7 splash screen for a few seconds and then it blue screens with this message, 'the BIOS in this system is not fully ACHI compliant. Please contact your system vendor for and updated BIOS. 0x000000A5.
I have flashed it to the latest BIOS and it has no effect. I have reset the UEFI settings within Windows and disabled UEFI in BIOS while enabling legacy boot. I have done this on several other HP machines for clients and when rebooting after the UEFI reset, just before the HP splash screen I would get a message telling me to enter the 4 digit code and press enter to complete the reset. On this machine, I do not get the code to reset it.
After some googling I found mention of it there being problems boot from the Windows 7 CD. So I prepared a Windows 7 boot flash drive with Rufus and a Windows 7 iso. I change the BIOS setting to boot from the flash drive and I get to the exact same point in the install before it blue screens again.
Has anyone else run into anything like this? I have never had an issue downgrading like this before. Any ideas, suggestions, input, or opinions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you all in advance!
Respectfully,
George D.
I am having a problem downgrading a clients machine from Windows 8.1 64 bit to Windows 7. It boots off the Windows 7 CD, and gets to the Windows is loading files screen. The progress bar fills up and it switches to the Windows 7 splash screen for a few seconds and then it blue screens with this message, 'the BIOS in this system is not fully ACHI compliant. Please contact your system vendor for and updated BIOS. 0x000000A5.
I have flashed it to the latest BIOS and it has no effect. I have reset the UEFI settings within Windows and disabled UEFI in BIOS while enabling legacy boot. I have done this on several other HP machines for clients and when rebooting after the UEFI reset, just before the HP splash screen I would get a message telling me to enter the 4 digit code and press enter to complete the reset. On this machine, I do not get the code to reset it.
After some googling I found mention of it there being problems boot from the Windows 7 CD. So I prepared a Windows 7 boot flash drive with Rufus and a Windows 7 iso. I change the BIOS setting to boot from the flash drive and I get to the exact same point in the install before it blue screens again.
Has anyone else run into anything like this? I have never had an issue downgrading like this before. Any ideas, suggestions, input, or opinions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you all in advance!
Respectfully,
George D.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP 19-2113W All in One
- CPU
- Celeron J1800 @ 2.41 GHz
- Memory
- 4 GB