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10-16-2021 07:23 AM - edited 10-16-2021 07:25 AM
Hi:
Below is the link to the product specs for your PC.
OMEN by HP Desktop PC - 870-222 Product Specifications | HP® Customer Support
The motherboard does not support any Intel 8th gen core processors.
A PC not meeting all of the W11 hardware requirements does not necessarily mean you can't install W11 on your PC, but you would have to perform a clean install and reinstall all of your programs and files.
If you want to see if W11 works on your PC, you can make a bootable W11 USB installer from the link below.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/software-download/windows11
See this article. 3rd headline from the bottom.
If for some reason, W11 does not work correctly on your PC, you can reinstall W10.
I currently have W11 clean installed on two PC's that I have, that do not meet the requirements for the W11 upgrade and they both work fine on W11 so far.
I used the free Macrium Reflect software to make system images of the W10 installation before I installed W11.
You may want to do the same.
Make a system image using Macrium reflect, and if W11 doesn't work right, you can easily go back to your current W10 installation.
You save the image on a portable hard drive and the software will have you make a bootable USB flash drive or DVD you boot from to access the system image stored on the portable hard drive.
Macrium Software | Reflect Free Edition
You want the file listed on the left side of the webpage under the Backup at Home section.
Last Tuesday was Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday,' and I had heard about the possibility that Microsoft would not offer the monthly security updates to PC's running W11 that did not meet the W11 hardware requirements.
Both of my non-supported W11 PC's got the all of the security updates, so that is good news.
I have a fully supported PC running W11, so I could check what updates it received against the ones my 2 unsupported PC's received.
If your PC does not have a TPM 2.0 security device, you will have to make a few minor registry edits to your W11 installation media.
See the info at the link below.