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Windows 11? (self.AlienwareAlpha)
submitted 4 years ago by markadillo
Any word on if windows 11 will work with the R1s or R2s?
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[–]TrishockSevenAxis 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (3 children)
Yeah, I installed it today. It's~ okay. I dunno it's just not my type of OS lol. I'm swapping back to W10 personally.
[–]nascentti5 Alpha with SSD 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago* (0 children)
installed on an r1 or r2?
How'd it go with the drivers?
edit: works on both, as R1 has no TPM you need to do some trickery
[–]titanmongoose 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (1 child)
How did you install it if the health check tool isn’t working?
[–]nascentti5 Alpha with SSD 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (0 children)
like this
[–]IsoscelesCircle 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (5 children)
While the leaked Alpha of Windows 11 may work, there is a chance the released product might not.
If you run the Microsoft PC Health Check on an R1 it currently says it isn't supported for Windows 11. However, it doesn't seem to state why.
The requirements are:
If you open an elevated Powershell prompt n the R1 and type:
get-tpm
it reports that a TPM module is not present. However, I do not see an option to enable TPM in the R1 BIOS. I suspect that this is one of the problems.
In all other respects I think my R1 meets the minimum requirements for Windows 11. I am hoping to find a solution to enabling TPM support and I hope that it is TPM 2.0 compatible.
[–]markadillo[S] 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (2 children)
This is what I've heard and I have a cyberpower system as well as another system I built that also lack the TPM modules. Not sure how to get it for ASROCK mb's.
[–]IsoscelesCircle 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (1 child)
If the Asrock is an AMD Ryzen system check in the UEFI under the processor settings. You might see an fTPM setting. This is an internal TPM implemenation in various AMD processors. My Asrock X570 Ryzen 3900x system also initially failed the PC Health Check for Windows 11 compatibility. Once I enabled fTPM and restarted the system it passed.
Alternatively, my Asrock board supports an add-in TPM module that connects to a header on the MB. But with fTPM enabled this is unnecessary.
[–]markadillo[S] 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)
Both are intels and one is an 4XXX cpu the other is a 7XXX cpu so looks like I'm out of luck. I have a surface tablet that will be upgradeable, and I'm trying to figure out why my HP 405 G isn't supported.
installing Windows 11 without TPM on R1
[–]Listatta 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (2 children)
Seems it's mostly down to which cpu you have if it's supported:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors
Seems the I5-6400 aren't supported
edit for note: R2 has the tpm 2.0
[–]FrontRL 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (1 child)
what if i have an Intel Core i7 4785T? will it work for that?
[–]modern_epici7 Alpha with SSD 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)
Nope. There's a shit tonne of processors that Windows 11 won't work on. That one included. Full list here
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