Intel CPU processors compatible with Z200 0b48h motherboard

[JoeNow]

Which Intel CPU processors are compatible with Z200 0b48h motherboard?

Can this PC be upgraded to be compatible with Windows 11? 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

There aren't any supported W11 processors for your PC.

If you want to upgrade to W11, you can see this discussion for how I upgraded several unsupported W11 HP and Dell business PC's to W11:

Re: Issues upgrading to windows 11 - HP Support Community - 8517912

Page 2 of the HP Quickspecs has the list of supported processors for your PC.

HP Z200 SFF Workstation (speyfy.com)

The quad core processors require a discrete graphics card be installed.

[SDH]

Paul... they locked the other very interesting THREAD  you refer to so hopefully you'll see this reply.

I don't use UEFI settings in BIOS (I use Legacy instead) and I also turn off AMT in BIOS for all of my builds, and also turn off TPM in BIOS. That has served me well, and I've been able to upgrade "unsupported" W10Pro64 builds to W11Pro64 v22H2 in virtually all cases tried (one exception still).

You showed the Rufus settings to use in your prior post on using that special version of Rufus and UEFI. Do you have a corresponding piece of advice if using that same Rufus version and my Legacy approach?

Thanks.... 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, @SDH 

All you need to do is to change the partition scheme from GPT to MBR in the drop down list, and you will be good to go.

The BIOS setting of UEFI/Non-CSM works for both UEFI and Legacy BIOS settings.

[DGroves]

no, your hardware (CPU/TPM) can not be made windows 11 compatible for a unmodified install

you can however modify the windows 11 install to skip the hardware checks, which allows it to install on just about any system that was win 10 compatible (and some win 7 systems also)

for a CLEAN INSTALL of win 11 22H2

i recommend  downloading the official MS win 11 install in the ISO format to your current system then download "rufus"

which has the ability to create a modified USB or ISO win 10 installer that by passes the cpu/tpm checks that ms added to the windows setup/installer

[SDH]

To both DGroves and Paul T...

Thank you for your info... always valuable.

The following is related to the Z440 I've been working with, SATA 2.5" form factor SSD rather than ZTD G2 (NVMe) end of the project) When I tried my hybrid method of upgrading the Z440 from W10Pro64 22H2 to W11 22H2 I got a near success but then got an auto-roll back to W10.

I checked in Device Manager and saw an exclamation related to a missing driver for TPM 1.2 (which I believe is the default version of TPM in all of the ZX40 workstations).

I know one can personally update that specific TPM chip's firmware from 1.2 to TPM 2.0 but chose not to do that. I also know that upgrading from W10 to W11 usually requires no missing device drivers. Since these workstations likely will never become officially W11-supported and since I know that one can render a device invisible to the OS and BIOS by "hiding" it in BIOS I did that for this TPM device in BIOS. I then rebooted and re-ran the hybrid upgrade technique. That solved the issue, The TPM chip no longer showed up in Device Manager, and the full upgrade to W11 22H2 proceeded smoothly. This tip might help you or others...