Windows 11 hardware

[DSM51]

I'm wanting to install Windows 11 on my laptop:
     HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC, running
     AMD Athlon II P320 Dual-Core Processor 2.10 GHz, with 4GB RAM
but I think that CPU isn't supported by Microsoft. Does anyone know if a different AMD CPU (chip) is available that could be plugged into the current mother board? One that *is* supported by Windows 11?

Thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

There aren't any hardware upgrades you can do to your PC to have it meet Micrsoft's minimum hardware requirements.

It needs more than an AMD Ryzen 3xxx series processor (which is not supported in your PC).

You could install W11 23H2 on your PC but not the latest version of W11 24H2 because the processor does not support AMD SSE4A.

The problem is, I don't know where you can still get the older W11 23H2 file.

You can check out this link.

Windows 11 media creation tool download for 23H2? | Microsoft Community Hub

Your notebook is very old and W11 may run very slowly on it.

4 GB of memory is the minimum requirement.

Then you have to use a W11 hardware check bypass method to upgrade from W10 > W11.

How To Install Windows 11 On Unsupported Hardware Using Rufus

You have to set Rufus up with the MBR partition scheme, not GPT.

After you make the flash drive with the ISO file, you can just open the file in Windows explorer, double-click on the Setup application to do an in-place upgrade.

You have 10 days to go back to W10 if things don't work well on W11 as long as you don't delete any of the upgrade files or the Windows.old folder.

[DSM51 · Accepted solution]

Thanks! Very useful response.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.