There's a new health checker for Win 11 that gives more info.

https://t.co/hTWMe16DWO?amp=1

TPM is only part of the issue, they've stopped supporting older processors from what it seems

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/25/22549725/microsof...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibili...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/de...

My Asus Z97-A supports an add in TPM module (so I've ordered one, it was less than 10 quid), but my i7-4790 might not work. Shame, but we'll find out in due course. The machine has 16GB and 500GB NVMe boot device, and is plenty fast enough for me.

Win 11 runs happily in HyperV on it (not activated, and signed in with an offline account)

I suspect that it's just "supporting" and that Windows 11 will run just fine on older processors.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

I suspect that it's just "supporting" and that Windows 11 will run just fine on older processors.

That is my understanding too. There will be an "unsupported CPU" warning that things may not work as expected but it should install.

In reply to a post by mbames:

My Asus Z97-A supports an add in TPM module (so I've ordered one, it was less than 10 quid), but my i7-4790 might not work. Shame, but we'll find out in due course. The machine has 16GB and 500GB NVMe boot device, and is plenty fast enough for me.

My machine is similar, i7-4790 CPU with 16GB RAM, and 500GB SSD (not NVMe) and runs very well with SecureBoot, UEFI, and GPT all enabled, just no TPM. Sadly I can't add a TPM module, no connector.

Well I've got a few years to buy a replacement

Edited by jchamier (Sun 27-Jun-21 12:46:05)

I looked idly at a new motherboard, i9 and equal amount of memory and decided that if I can't get w11 to run, I can't justify the cost of a hardware upgrade - even if I did buy the this machine back in 2014/5, as this machine otherwise is still perfectly fast.

Only upgrade it has had was the boot 120GB boot m..2; replaced with the NVMe (to enable a few more VMs to run - rather than resorting to the 2TB spinny disk).

Additional googling seems to suggest the older CPU will work but just won't be in the supported list. I wonder if you might be able to pick up a replacement mobo as interim step.

Edited by mbames (Sun 27-Jun-21 13:58:35)

In reply to a post by mbames:

I wonder if you might be able to pick up a replacement mobo as interim step.

Always possible, and something I considered. I'll watch and see what happens after launch and then maybe donate this as a good Win10 machine, and replace it. Win10 doesn't go out of support until 2025, at which point this machine will be 10 years old, which is a pretty good lifetime.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

I suspect that it's just "supporting" and that Windows 11 will run just fine on older processors.

Yeah.
I wanted a a peak at windows 11 just to be nosey, so I installed it on on another drive, sata 3 SSD on this computer and it runs fine with a Ryzen 7 1700, in fact it seems to be snappier than windows 10 on my NvME drive.

I thought I was going to hate it and this will be a shock to people here, I kind of like it, well some of it, the start menu is ok, and being in the centre seems to be better to be honest. Not fond of not being able to move it to the top of the screen.

It even activated on this machine, which is something I really did not want it to do,, but there you go.
Still not sure if I would use it for my main OS, there are things I like that will not work as they should or at all.
Not being able to have software using the taskbar is a small problem,.

i am using it to do this post.
yes, I am shocked as well.

You can move the menu to the left, like Windows 10, and bear in mind that this is just a beta so a lot of things will change before the release version. You might even want to give some feedback to Microsoft about positioning the task bar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSaJfudt8S4

Win 11 on a Lumia Phone.