Hardware @lemmy.ml Pantherina @feddit.de 3 mo. ago

How stable are Win11 hardware check bypasses?

Imagine I get hardware without TPM or something, that is not supported by Win11.

I will not run an EOL Win10 as the machine needs to be connected to the internet. Tbh isolating stuff in a VM could be an idea but I dont know.

Its not for me but a noob with 0 tech knowledge, that says all...

How stable are the available hardware check bypasses? Is Micro$ already starting to aggressively block those?

I would not want to buy a PC to find out Win11 doesnt boot anymore in a few months...

Thanks!

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the perfect PC for graphic design.

But it is not supported by Win11, from 2017 probably no TPM etc. Its an Intel Xeon E3-1240 v6

Doubt that. That CPU is from 2011 not 2017. Not worth running in 2024.

I doubt that the hardware requirements for win11 will lead to much problems.
- Yeah I can’t imagine a quad core xeon that caps out at 32gb of DDR3 is perfect for anything at this point
  
  Edit: Yeah that CPU is pretty far down this list
  
  https://valid.x86.fr/bench/8
- Ooh damn, then I must have read the wrong description. Thats a hell no then.
  
  Well you've edited the original post, but the quote shows a v6 cpu with a link to a v1. Which do you have? V6 is kaby lake and while not officially supported, it does have tpm2.0
I put windows 11 on my old PC. It's a i7 5930K. It's definitely not supposed to work with Windows 11. But it works just fine after bypassing the hardware checks.

The checks seem to only occur when the installer is running.
- The checks seem to only occur when the installer is running.
  
  This is an important thing. If that is true, just using a currently working installer will even be future proof.
- Any source for hardware check bypass I haven’t had a need to dig for one until recently and am deeper into software engineering than reverse/bypass engineering.
  
  Rufus integrates one, but its proprietary afaik
  
  https://www.ghacks.net/2022/02/12/windows-11-how-to-bypass-tpm-checks-during-dynamic-updates/
It's very easy to bypass the requirements. Just search "how to bypass Windows 11 install requirements".

I've installed it on a a handful of machines that didn't meet the requirements and haven't had any issues with them other than one not being able to launch a game because the anti cheat needed newer TPM 2.0
Windows 10 EOL is in October 2025, 1½ years away. Maybe wait for 11 a little more?

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