Tech1914 Posted January 30, 2017 Report post Posted January 30, 2017 Hello, I am trying to install Windows 7 on a Panasonic CF 54. The install goes smoothly until the machine has to reboot. Once it reboots at the end it just goes to the black screen giving the options to boot normally etc. I can't grab the smsts.log files. Its frustrating because it work all the way until it has to reboot. Please let me know if you have seen this. The CF54 is UEFI. Thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted January 31, 2017 Report post Posted January 31, 2017 why Windows 7, if the device is UEFI i'd recommend Windows 10 (or at least Windows 8.1 with update), must you install Windows 7 on it ? normally the only way to get Windows 7 to work with uefi is to enable a CSM mode in the bios to disable Secure boot. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech1914 Posted February 1, 2017 Report post Posted February 1, 2017 Thanks. Yes they want Windows 7. I tried this. I may just have to use windows 8.1. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spgsitsupport Posted February 3, 2017 Report post Posted February 3, 2017 Windows 7 does NOT work on pure UEFI without CSM enabled (but I heard of some odd Asus machines that have CSM enabled, even it is not available in firmware setup, in which case W7 would work on something that looks like "pure UEFI") Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
