Windows 11 24H2

[EdV2]

Following the Windows health check the HP Pavilion x2 12-b100ns does not have the correct hardware configuration for W11 due to the fact that it has  a Intel® Core™ m3-6Y30 (900 MHz - 2,2 GHz). The check tells it has a 0.9 GHz processor which W11 does not support, while it is up to 2.2 GHz. It seems an error of the health check which take the information directly from the Bios.

Any suggestions to solve this problem are welcome.  Please be aware that W11 24H2 does not install anymore with the work around like Rufus 4.6 or Windows power shell.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

There is nothing you can do to make your PC meet the W11 hardware requirements.

It has nothing to do with the GHz of the processor.

It has to do with the generation of the processor.

The only Intel processors that meet Microsoft's minimum processor requirements can be found at the link below:

Windows processor requirements Windows 11 supported Intel processors | Microsoft Learn

The Intel® Core™ m3-6Y30 is not on the list.

You should be able to install W11 24H2 using the method in the video at the link below:

I have used it on PC's much older than yours and it worked fine.

Skip the part of the video where he talks about getting the W11 24H2 insider preview file to work with.

Use the latest download from Microsoft.

He also talks about using the free 7-Zip file utility.

I have posted the links to both the Micrsoft W11 download site and the 7-Zip download site for your convenience.

How to install Windows 11 24H2 on Unsupported PC (Early Access) 2024 (youtube.com)

Download the W24H2 ISO file and use that (3rd option).   

Download Windows 11 (microsoft.com)

You can download the free 7-Zip file utility from the link below.  The top line is for 64 bit.

7-Zip

You'll have to repeat this procedure each October when Microsoft rolls out the new builds because a PC that does not meet Microsoft's minimum W11 hardware requirements will never automatically get the update to the next build.

Other than that, your PC will continue to get the monthly cumulative and other updates.

That's only a minor inconvenience to have continued OS support beyond October of 2025.

And best of all, it can be done at absolutely no cost.

You can easily go back to W10 within 10 days of installing W11 as long as you don't delete the upgrade files or the Windows.old folder.

[EdV2]

Thank you Paul, I ll try it out one of the coming days and keep the community informed of the results.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

You're very welcome.

I always use the Rufus bypass method for clean installs, but on some of my PC's it did not work for the in-place upgrade from W10>W11 24H2 or W11 23H2>W11 24H2.

The video I posted worked fine to do in-place upgrades for all of my PCs.

Now, Microsoft did make a major change in W11 24H2 in that an Intel processor must support Intel SSE 4.2, which for Intel means you have to have a minimum of an Intel 1st generation core i3 processor in order to upgrade to 24H2.

I have some older PC's with Pentium Core2 Duo processor that are running W11 23H2, but I could not upgrade them to 24H2 because those processors do not support SSE 4.2.

I tried before I found out about the new changes, and a clean install wouldn't boot to even get to the 'Install Now' screen, and an in-place upgrade failed miserably.

I had to clean install W11 23H2 on those PC's.