Windows 11 for 870-222

[JFMiller1972]

Been looking to upgrade CPU for the coming of Windows 11, but can't find any suitable upgrade for my HP Omen 870-222

[Paul_Tikkanen]

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.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-windows-11-how-to-get-it-now-or-later/?ftag=TREc64629f&bhid...

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.

https://www.askvg.com/how-to-bypass-this-pc-cant-run-windows-11-error-and-disable-hardware-check-on-...