Other UEFI do support legacy BIOS and the INT10H protocol needed, but reportedly not the one used by Surface Pros. The knowledge base comment about it being a Class 3 UEFI device is supposed to imply that (in distinction from class 1Īnd class 2 UEFI devices) the SP and SP2 do not support legacy BIOSs.which is needed to run Windows 7 圆4. The problem is that the assumption that the SP2 has nominally the same UEFI BIOS as other computers may not be true. Anybody out there have a link to instructions on how to do this successfully? Drivers shouldn't be an issue, it's only the install that's questionable. Okay, so that will void the warranty, but I'd rather haveĪ great and usable computer with no warranty than a brick of digital feces under warranty. I've seen hints that there is a way to install Windows 7 on a UEFI device, and that the secure boot can be turned off, and those together should mean that it is possible to get Win7 on the SP2. " and some of us hopeful dreamers are still in doubt that this is the final word. Requires Windows 8 or later operating systems to run. We've seen the official knowledge base item stating: " The Surface Pro is a Class 3 UEFI device that does not support legacy BIOS Interrupt 10 (INT 10H) video transitioning and it So, getting this excellent piece of hardware to run the currently best (though still disappointing) OS
I personally am not even interested in the touchscreen (it's the digitizer pen I want), and much less so in the crappy RT experience. As everybody knows, Windows 8 and 8.1 are horrible, unintuitive, ugly, and otherwise horrible operating
As soon as the folks at the Microsoft store figure out how to process credit cards (they've been failing for 6 weeks), I'll be getting the SP 256GB.
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