Hi, I recently purchased a 15-g077nr with amd based hardware. Removed windows 8 and installed windows 7. Driver Nvidia Geforce 6150se Nforce 430 Windows 10 there. Installed amd catalyst from their website and it took care of *most* of the hardware drivers, etc. Although, i am missing the 'SM Bus Controller' and 'PCI Encryption Decryption Controller' drivers. Any idea where i can get these?

This page contains the driver installation download for PCI Encryption/Decryption Controller in supported models (HP Laptop 15q-bu0xx (2SL07PA#ACJ)) that are running.

Not sure if this relates to my usb 3.0 issue. I purchased a usb 3.0 display adaptor, to vga, and it does not work on the 3.0 port. If i plug it into the 2.0 ports, it works but only at 800x600 resolution (and it says it requires 3.0 to utilize higher resolutions in the manual). My monitor is a Samsung 213T which its native is 1600x1200 and my usb adaptor supports that resolution also. Samsung does not have 64bit drivers for this monitor, which I think is irrelivent anyways. If the adaptor supports 1600x1200 with a plug-n-play driver, it should work fine. So the problem must lie in the usb 3.0 functionality.

HP did a logmein virtual pc thing, attempted to fix it, but couldnt. Their basically telling me to restore the system to windows 8 for the usb 3.0 and all associated drivers to work properly. Obviously, i think that was just a cop-out because they couldnt resolve my issue. I'm pretty tech savvy, so when my buddies ask me to fix their machines, i typically tell them to do the 'nuke and restore' just to save me the hours of troubleshooting. I do not see any reason why new hardware, would not be compatible with an OS still supported by microsoft.