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February 27th, 2025 18:42
Inspiron 530 Windows 11
just to prove can do or cannot do
I know this Inspiron 530 after bios update to latest can install Win 10
but it can not get its act together to set up Win 11 24H2
keeps restarting after initial install is complete
it shows the Win 11 logo then restarts
and then
I find out it can actually install older Win 11 21H2.
something happened during 24H2 coding that the old 530 can not handle.
does anyone have a better explanation?
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ejn63
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February 27th, 2025 21:25
Yes. Microsoft has begun raising the CPU floor for Windows 11, officially supporting nothing older than the 11th generation CPUs with the 24H2 release.
Some people have gotten 24H2 to work on unsupported CPUs, but many others have not - and Microsoft's official line is that anything older than the 11th generation is unsupported.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-24h2
From the time of Windows 11, MS announced that in time. unsupported CPUs would be locked out of windows 11. Until now, that's been a future -- it is now the present.