HP ENVY dv7-7250us Notebook PC

[Eddie352]

Product Name: dv7-7250us with Windows 10 Pro Edition Version: 21H1 OSBuild: 19043.1320

Product Number: C2H71UA

Microprocessor: Intel Core I7-3630QM Quad-Core processor - 2.4GHz (Ivy Bridge, 6MB Level-3 cache, 45W TDP) - Includes replacement thermal material 

Current Memory: 16GB DDR3 SDRAM (2 DIMM)

Current Problem: Hello, I have the above system which is 8 years old and today I found out that it is not capable of being upgraded to windows 11. The current hardware does not support TPM 2.0 which is necessary for windows 11. I will like to upgrade the motherboard to one that will support the current microprocessor.or greater and is TPM 2.0 capable. I am open to suggestion at this point on what to do. Any suggestions wil be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

There are no motherboards that will support W11 for your notebook's model series.

The processor is also not supported.

If you are interested in trying out W11 by clean installing it on your notebook as is...

I would make a system image of your current W10 installation prior to updating to W11, so you can easily reinstall W10 in the future.  I used the free Macrium Reflect software to do that, under the Backup at Home section. 

Along with the system image, make sure you create the bootable DVD or USB rescue drive you boot from to access the system image stored on your portable hard drive.

Macrium Software | Reflect Free Edition

First make this registry change...

https://www.hellpc.net/how-to-bypass-tpm-and-cpu-requirements-windows-11-upgrade-unsupported-pc/

Then download the Windows 11 ISO file (3rd option), not the W11 installation assistant.

Download Windows 11 (microsoft.com)

Use Rufus and make a bootable USB installer with the ISO file you downloaded.

There is a new option to create an installer that is supposed to bypass the W11 hardware checks. 

Here is the link to the Rufus download.  You want the version 3.17 portable.

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

See this image link for how to set up the Rufus tool to bypass the W11 hardware checks...

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/296479i080A4C679280E055/image-size/large/is-...

Boot from the Rufus installer and you should be able to clean install W11 on your notebook.

My unsupported W11 PC's got all of the W11 updates. 

I have upgraded 8 of them to W11, and they seem to run a little better on W11 than they did on W10.

However, I don't know how long they will continue to get all of the updates, or what will happen when the new build of W11 comes out next year in October.