G73JH Factory Restore Issue.

I've had the G73JH since Feb 2011. It's been sitting in the closet after getting many upgrades and building several new PCs over the years. Decided to clean it up and give it to a friend. I try formatting the hard drive and restoring from the official recovery media the laptop came with. I've used it several times through the years with no problems.

Now what is very strange is that when I restore it now it's saying all the drivers that were installed by the asus driver cd are not digitally signed. I did not have the laptop connected to internet during restore so Microsoft slipping in some update during factory reset was not possible. Anyone explain how a laptop with Asus recovery media worked fine before, but on same laptop and same recovery media, NOT connected to internet, it's now saying drivers are not signed? It would restore it exactly like it did 7 years ago. What am I missing here?
The ONLY thing different in the laptop is the hard drive. From the original 1TB Seagate to a 640 GB Hitachi. Which I have used the restore cds on before no issue BTW. Before I would restore it from the CDs and all would be working fine then I would connect to wifi and then run windows update and all would be good. Any help in this supernatural issue would be greatly appreciated.

Summary: How does a laptop, (not connected to internet), restored from Asus restore disks now say the drivers are not signed?

 

Old drivers might not have signatures or might not be signed correctly. I think the only way around it is to disable driver signature enforcement in the advanced boot options.

 

I kinda thought this might get confusing. Glad someone from xotic chimed in on this. What I'm getting at is the laptop doesn't know it's getting old drivers. The Asus restore CDs shipped with the laptop doesn't know they are old drivers. It should restore it to like new out of box from the disks. Only when I hook up to internet will anything be different from 7 years ago. See what I'm trying to get across?

I've restored several times in last 2 days to make sure and everytime I get the unsigned drivers popups. Video, sound, network, all don't work unless I disable during F8 bootup. Downloading the newest drivers, for this old laptop, all say they are all unsigned which we know they are not. Looked all over the net and no one has come up with a fix besides F8, which is not a fix.

 

Try setting the system clock back to 2011 or so? Maybe there is a date factor to these certificates.