Hello!
I need some help with the installation of Intel I/O drivers on my notebook (Acer Aspire A515-51G). I suppose that one of them, the I2C driver, is required in order to use advanced touchpad mode (BIOS settings). If I set this option to be "on", my touchpad won't work at all, as expected.
My problem is that Intel provides those drivers only for Win10 so I can't install them using setup.exe downloaded from Acer site - "platform not supported" error. I can see the corresponding devices in the Device Manager in "System Devices" section, at the end of the list, for example: Mobile 6th/7th Generation Intel(R) Processor Family I/O Serial IO I2C Host Controller - 9D60. In the properties I can see that the status of the device is something like "no drivers installed". If I try to install those drivers manually in the Device Manager by choosing the .inf file location (the folder from Acer site contains also .inf files) I get "best driver for this device is already installed" but in the properties I'm still informed that no drivers are installed. Trying to install those drivers in Windows Explorer (right click - install on .inf files) ends with "selected .inf file doesn't support this form of the installation".
I'm attaching the folder with Win10 drivers.
Is there any chance to solve this problem on my Win7? I also wonder if the rest of those drivers (GPIO, SPI and UART) is important for my notebook. I would be very grateful for any help!

Thank you for your replay! I'm not sure if I did understood you correctly, but the folder that I have attached in my post contains not only .inf but also .sys files, so those are THE Drivers, not "Drivers", is this correct?

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I suppose that one of them, the I2C driver, is required in order to use advanced touchpad mode (BIOS settings). If I set this option to be "on", my touchpad won't work at all, as expected.

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Zitat von Salamandra im Beitrag #1

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I'm attaching the folder with Win10 drivers.
Is there any chance to solve this problem on my Win7? I also wonder if the rest of those drivers (GPIO, SPI and UART) is important for my notebook. I would be very grateful for any help!

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@Fernando:
Yes, I have three unrecognized devices listed in the Device Manager:
1) Ethernet Controller, hardware ID: PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168;
2) PCI Simple Communications Controller, hardware ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_9D3A;
3) Unknown device, hardware ID: ACPI\MSFT0101.
None of those hardware ID's matches the ID's from those .inf files of Intel I/O drivers. I have tried to force the installation by choosing location which contains all of the drivers available on Acer site, but the Device Manager can't find any appropriate drivers out there.

Oh, no, I don't expect Intel to provide full support for Win7 when it comes to the newest platforms. I'm just trying to find out if it is possible to solve some of those little problems without huge effort and to learn something at the same time. So far I'm extremely happy about my notebook with Win7 on it. I have two years of experience with Win10 and I just dislike this OS and if I can stay with Win7 without any serious complications I can't see any reason why not to.

As you said - there are many, many people who wants to stay with Win7. It would be grat if this huge demand resulted in some Intel/AMD/NVidia help for those users (with the effort close to none I suppose), instead in many cases things are deliberately and artificially complicated (you can install incompatible Intel HD Graphics driver just by adding your device ID to the Win7 section in the .inf file and everything works great, the same thing is with Win7 updates and Kaby Lake CPU's).

@Mov AX, 0xDEAD:
Thank you for your reply and information about those drivers! It's OK, I can live with it.

@Fernando:
I have posted this information only because you asked for it, I've planned to take a closer look at those devices later.
Thank you so much for suggesting the exact drivers needed for those devices!
Your kindness and knowledge is really a great treasure for all PC users.