Since I can not see a forum for the XI I'm posting here. I have this motherboard and have now tried to install Windows 7 with no luck at all. Mouse and keyboard work in the bios but not in the OS. In fact just getting it to install required a ps/2 keyboard only since both would not work. There is no EZ Installer this time around and the installer for the Hero X didn't work either. Tried this with a usb stick, nope. Gets to the install screen, no mouse cursor or keyboard functionality. Using the DVD in an ODD through sata, nada. It appears that something is preventing the OS from recognizing any usb ports at all after install. If you look at the device manager the tree ends at system devices. The entire section of Universal Serial Bus controllers doesn't exist. Bizarre. All updates were installed as well as chipset drivers. Nada. I tried this with a 8700k and even a G5400 cpu
I even tried to install USB 3 drivers for win 7 and got an error message popup that said "This computer does not meet the minimum system requirements to install this program". Really? Crap. I know some will say just use Win 10 it's wunderbar but I tried it once and hated it. I'm sure I'm not the only person that will experience this but if anyone or an Asus rep has a solution I'd like to know. If there is no solution, hack or workaround then be for warned you will be disappointed. This would shut out many users I'm sure and the blocking of Win 7 installs is kind of a lousy way of doing it if that's the case.
i9 12900k + Asus Maximus Z690 Apex + EVGA RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 ULTRA
G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 6000l XMP 3.0 Desktop Memory Model F5-6000U4040E16GX2-TZ5RK+ Samsung 870 Pro SSD, EVO 1TB, EVO 2TB
EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 T2 Power Supply + Fractal Meshify 2 XL case
Ek Velocity 2 CPU block, Ek GPU block
Koolance Fittings and QDC's + Mo-Ra 3 Pro 4x180 Radiator
LG 38GL950G Monitor + Windows 10 Pro
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