The manufacturer's OEM versions will be Windoze with specific drivers &
utilities for that manufacturer's models. Unless it's specifically labeled
as a RECOVERY version it shouldn't include a hardware checker to only
allow it to install on their hardware.
The Windoze part should install, but additional drivers & utilities
won't necessarily match your hardware.
I look for generic OEM versions because I usually "roll my own". I have
brand name laptops, but all my other computers (other than the Mac
Mini), I built from parts.
The Generic OEM version will just be Windoze without any hardware
specific drivers. If you need hardware specific drivers you can usually
download them from the manufacturer's website; e.g. the video card might
boot up in VGA & you'll have to get NVIDIA drivers from the card vendor.
Used to be with Tiger Direct (which was my preferred vendor because they
had a retail store right up the street from my house) or other on-line
vendors, you had to buy some piece of hardware to "qualify" for the OEM
version, but I don't think Micro$oft requires that any more. They just
don't supply any support (unless you're willing to pay for it).
My Toshiba laptop came with Windoze Vista 32bit. When I installed a
generic OEM Win7 64bit version, I had to download a bunch of drivers &
utilities from Toshiba's "support" web site. Wasn't a big deal, because
their support forums had several threads telling me what specific
packages I needed.
In fact, by the time I got around to installing Win7, they had a
complete package I could download that automagically installed all of
the necessary drivers. You might check your manufacturer's website to
see if they have the drivers you need already prepackaged too.
On 2/14/2016 11:47 AM, Mark C wrote:
A few years ago I looked for a copy of Win 7 and was left with the
impression that there were very few copies of stand alone Win 7
available and those that were fetched a premium price. I mostly found
copies that were labelled to be installed on a specific manufacturer's
computers - e.g. "Win 7 for Dell" or "for Compaq" - and assumed that
they would not work on another brand.
I realized this morning that despite installing ~150 updates my fresh
Vista install has not applied either service pack, so I am in the
process of manually installing them. Maybe that will get things
straighten out.
Mark
On 2/13/2016 7:13 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Mark C wrote:
Interesting - I did not know that you could still buy and register
Windows 7. I have it on my desktop and it is vastly superior to Vista,
IMO. I might go that way.
Check on eBay, too. There are still valid unused installation discs
for Win 7 that come up from time to time. I bought one last year when
I purchased a refurbed laptop. It installed (and validated as legit
with Microsoft) fine.
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