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How stable are Win11 hardware check bypasses? (feddit.de)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I used rufus to install W11 (running i7-4790k) and haven't had any issues with it. The only reason an update would cause issues is if they started requiring specific CPU instructions your CPU doesn't support (like when W11 started requiring POPCNT, which is only in gen 1 CPUs and newer). I don't think its likely they'd make such a upgrade in W11 again. Any new CPU instruction limitations would probably be a W12 thing at this point.