Windows 7 install on Lenovo B50-30

Hello Everyone,
I suggested to a school that they invest in some Lenovo B50-30s as they were cheap and cheerful and would do what they needed.
I checked the Lenovo driver site and saw that there were windows 7 64bit drivers available, so presumed I would be able to downgrade them to fit their domain setup.
I have tried every different bios configuration, even taken the HDD out and installed win 7 64bit and checked it booted in another system and it was fine, put it back in the Lenovo and it just gets to the point where the Win 7 dots appear as they create the windows boot picture, then it blue screens and says the bios in this system is not fully acpi compatible.....which is what it says when trying to reload from every kind of media known to man.
Is there a genius out there who can save me many more pain staking hours of grief and tell me what to do please, the bios in this system is so basic its unreal, you can choose boot device priority and achi/ide/compatability modes etc, but thats about it.....what happened to ram voltage settings etc that I used to enjoy messing about with.
If anyone can figure this, I will buy you a pint!! I'm hoping in the words of Barney Stinson....."Challenge accepted!!"
Thank you in advance.
Andy

Hello,
Sorry for my english, i'm french.
I have the same problem.
I use a CD of windows 8 to delete all system partition.
After ther is no soucy to install windows 7
I hope it can help you
Regards
Manu

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Guten Tag. Nachdem ich mir kürzlich ein Yoga Pro 3 gekauft habe und mich mit Windows 8.1 so gar nicht anfreunden kann, habe ich mir noch dieses große "Sparbrötchen" Lenovo B50-30 gekauft. Das wird ebenfalls mit Windows 8.1 ausgeliefert, aber ich hatte gesehen, daß es dafür Windows 7-Treiber gibt. Sicher nicht grundlos. Tatsächlich konnte ich Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit mittlerweile installieren, und es läuft recht rund. Aber ein paar Geräte werden mir im Gerätemanager noch als "Unbekannt" angezeigt. Da das B50-30 derzeit recht günstig angeboten wird, hoffe ich, daß vielleicht noch andere mit diesen Problemen zu kämpfen haben. Wo gibt es die restlichen Treiber, die ich noch benötige?

Die Fehlermeldung hatte ich nicht. Ich bin allerdings so vorgegangen, wie in den Artikeln, die ich mir aus dem Netz kopiert habe. Und wenn gar nichts hilft: Festplatte ausbauen (geht total easy), in ein externes Gehäuse packen, an einen anderen PC anschliessen und von dort aus Partitionen löschen. Aber erstmal folgendes machen: Re: B50-30 problem with install windows 7Options‎10-03-2014 03:38 AM1. In BIOS select exit menu2. Load DEFAULT SETTINGS3. Find OS optimized defaults, make sure OTHER OS is selected!4. Select Boot option menu5.Make sure BOOT FROM LEGACY is enabled6. REORDER BOOT DEVICES INSTALLING WINDOWS 7 IIF YO CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS (Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of GPT partition style). FOLLOW THIS TUTORIAL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQf9YqbD8WI The solution is this.... I bet you are Getting the ACPI Error like this... Link to image Step 1: Shut down your Laptop. Step 2: Find the small NOVO button on Left side of your Laptop near the Power cord Point. Press the button. The System loads Boot Options.. Step 3: Click on the BIOs Setup Option. A Blue screen menu appears use arrow keys to navigate to Exit option and select OS optimized Defaults to Win 7 ( The Default is Windows 8 64 Bit) Step 4: If you are about to Install a Fresh Copy of Windows 7 Then Goto Configuration Tab and Change USB Mode to USB 2.0 (Original may be USB 3.0) In case you are already Running Windows 7 and the Problem was caused by Updating Your BIOS then Then rest the Bios by using the option given in the Status Bar. Step 5: Goto Exit and Select Exit Saving Changes. Select Yes The problem should be gone.. and if It doesnt... Be Patient. Open BIOS Settings again and tweak around... Boot Mode or Boot Priority etc. * Please refre to this Document -http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/hnt/lenovo_g40_30_g50_30_bsod_solution.pdf Hier: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-B-and-G-Series-Notebooks/Windows-7-install-on-Lenovo-B50-30/td-p/1654059 To Install Windows 7:
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Hi,
I am using lenovo G560 with Windows 7. Now i don't want to use it any more. so i decide to install Windows XP like normally in Desktops as i had used desktops only.
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Hello everyone!
I am using Lenovo G460, i guess it is not that different from G560 for the purposes of this discussion.
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Should i now always stay with my settings as Compatible in BIOS and, therefore, never be able to use such features as NCQ and hot swapping? I repeat, that I don't know anything about AHCI or Compatible mode, but I figure that AHCI is better.
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Problema al iniciar Lenovo B50-30 Checking media...

Hola!
Hace tiempo que tengo este Lenovo B50-30 (80ES) que me venía con Windows 8. Lo pasé a Windows 7 de 32bits, lo cual tuve que volver a cambiarlo por el de 64 bits esta mañana. El error viene cuando después de pasarlo al formato de 64 bits que era el indicado, al terminar el formateo todo normal, el fallo comenzó cuando empecé a instalar los Controladores, al intentar instalar "BIOS Update Utility exe" (O al menos pienso que este pudo ser el último que intenté instalar antes del fallo) La cuestión es que la aplicación me pedía que no utilizara la batería para ejecutarla y que conectase el cargador. Hecho esto, comenzó a instalarse hasta que me apareció una pantalla negra con unas letras en rojo, tras cargarse por completo, lo siguiente que apareció fué:
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Llegué a deducir por lo de IPv4 que necesitaría conexión a internet, por lo que cunecté el cable al ordenador y esto solo cambió la respuesta del cuadro, supongo que dando otro fallo, pero ninguna otra opción que no sean las que ya he dicho.
La cuestión segun he leido parece fácil de solucionar, pero mi verdadero problema recae en que no puedo acceder a la BIOS de ninguna de las maneras. Mi portatil no tiene ese botón para acceder a la BIOS, supongo que hay que hacerlo mediante F12, aunque los he probado todos, y al salir el Logotipo de Lenovo intento acceder a la BIOS y no me deja.
No sabría deciros si instalé el controlador de la Bios, si era el controlador propio de la Bios el que me ha dado este fallo, no sé. No estan todos los Drivers instalados, ya que este era de los 3 primero que me descargué por orden de la página y me salió el fallo este que no me deja acceder a Windows.
La verdad es que estoy un poco desquiciado con este error, asique agradecería muchiiisimo una ayudita. Y aunque no se supiera solución, otra duda es que si podría Re-formatearlo para solucionar el problema. La cuestión es esa, que no puedo Acceder a la BIOS y no se siquiera si lo podré formatear.
Gracias de antemano por dedicarme unos minutillos
¡Resuelto!
Ir a solución.

Para el caso 2 en el que que modificas la BIOS a legacy el disco duro aparece para el orden de arranque, con esta configuración Windows no carga normalmente verdad? mismo mensaje mostrador desde un inicio, recomendable en la pestaña exit verificar que en las preferencias de sistema operativo, este para Windows 7 en el caso de no estar este parámetro colocar en otros.
Si con esto persiste el mensaje problema, intenta arrancar el instalador de Windows 7 y verificar si el disco duro, para intentar verificar si es que el problema es debido a error en el arranque de Windows o de plano no tienes ningún sistema en disco que arrancar.
Un saludo.
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1562226688   391297024      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
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