Hardware locked ?

[JohnMaler]

My pc has a Ryzen7 1700 cpu, before bying a new cpu that supports win 11 how do i figure out if my pc is hardware locked to this cpu or i can just swap it out ?

Sincerely John

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Your PC's motherboard does not support upgrading to any W11 supported AMD processor.

OMEN by HP 880-075no Desktop PC Product Specifications | HP® Support

Processor upgrade information

• TDP: up to 95 W
• Socket type: AM4
• Motherboard supports the following processor upgrades:

  Processor	TDP
  AMD Ryzen7-1800X (Summit Ridge) 3.6 GHz, 8 cores/16 threads	95 W
  AMD Ryzen7-1700 (Summit Ridge) 3.0 GHz, 8 cores/16 threads	65 W
  AMD Ryzen5-1600 (Summit Ridge) 3.2 GHz, 6 cores/12 threads	65 W
  AMD Ryzen5-1400 (Summit Ridge) 3.2 GHz, 4 cores/8 threads	65 W

  If you are interested in installing W11 on your PC as is, you can read this discussion for how I upgraded several HP and Dell notebook and desktop PC's that did not meet the W11 hardware requirements to W11 22H2/22H3.

  You have to use the version of the Rufus utility that I zipped up and attached in the discussion (v3.18).

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

  If the in-place upgrade fails, you should be able to clean install W11 using the bootable W11 installation flash drive you made with Rufus.

[JohnMaler]

Thank You so much

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.