Upgrade CPU in HP X360 (HP 81AA Motherboard)

[Soapy64]

Hi, I am wanting to upgrade my laptop to run windows 11 but the upgrade compatibility says my current CPU (AMD A12-9700P RADEON R7, 10 COMPUTE CORES 4C+6G 2.50 GHz) is not suitable.

Motherboard is HP 81AA (59.26)

Can you let me know if there is a suitable CPU that I can upgrade to that will run Windows 11.

Thank you.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

The CPU is an integral part of the motherboard and cannot be upgraded without replacing the motherboard with one listed in your notebook's service manual that comes with one of the W11 supported processors.

I doubt any of the motherboards would have come with a Ryzen 3xxx processor, and even if they do exist, it would cost as much to upgrade the motherboard as it would to buy a new PC that fully supports W11 out of the box.

Here is an easy way you can bypass the W11 processor requirements and do an in-place upgrade to W11...

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)

Then open the file with Windows explorer, and click on the setup application.

To do that, right click on the ISO file and select 'Open With' and select Windows Explorer.

See the screenshot...this is what you will see when you open the file with Windows Explorer.

After you double click to run the setup application, you will get this window, and you can now upgrade to W11.

You just have to accept the agreement that comes up during the upgrade process about your PC not meeting the requirements, etc., etc..

My PC got all of the W11 updates. 

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

[Soapy64]

Thank you for your quick response.

I will back up my Laptop and give this a go.

Cheers.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.