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Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade

From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade
Date 2025-04-07 14:47 -0400
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Message-ID <vt16ja$eu58$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <vsu459.16v4.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <vsu4d6$18s5f$1@dont-email.me> <vsud0c.1374.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <vsu7kk$1c45h$1@dont-email.me> <vt0nh7.1620.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>

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On Mon, 4/7/2025 8:30 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
>> On Sun, 4/6/2025 11:18 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>> Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
> [...]
>>>> The PC Health App can spell it out a bit more than the Windows Update
>>>> box does. This will only be in Win10, if you installed it
>>>>
>>>>    C:\Program Files\PCHealthCheck\PCHealthCheck.exe    866,224 bytes  (2022)
>>>
>>>   Yes, that's what I pointed to: The 'Check hardware requirements' link
>>> brings you to a webpage, which, as one of the first things, gives you a
>>> link to download the install package for PCHealthCheck.exe.
>>>
>>>> But generally speaking, they didn't make much of an effort to
>>>> spell things out.
>>>
>>>   Indeed they don't. PCHealthCheck says my wife's AMD processor is not
>>> supported, but not why not (it has enough cores). But as it also has no
>>> TPM and is rather 'old' (May 2014) and 'slow', I don't worry about it.
>>> New system (probably a 'Mini-PC') is planned for the end of the year.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>>    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-amd-processors
> 
>   System Information says:
> 
> AMD A4-5000 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics, 1500 MHz, 4 core('s)
> 
> and PCHealthCheck says the same:
> 
> AMD A4-5000 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics
> 
> and indeed no 'A4' or '5000' in the windows-11-supported-amd-processors
> list.
> 
>> They look mostly like Zen products.
>>
>> The ones at the beginning have weird names, so I looked one up and it
>> is a Zen.
>>
>>    https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/athlon-gold-3150g.c2330
> 
>   Thanks for that reference/site. This is the page for my wife's AMD
> A4-5000
> 
> <https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/a4-5000.c1710>
> 
>   It's a 2013 CPU, which matches with the purchase date of May 2014.
> 

OK, it's a Kabini. It has SSE 4.2 and would have POPCNT (W11 won't crash).
The TPM situation would be about as dire as on my Test Machine. Maybe a
Rufus install would work. I have W11 on the Test Machine, but it might not
last to the end of service (some year, an upgrade install might fail to work...).

2011  K10          Bobcat
2012  Piledriver
2013               Jaguar <=== Kabini
2014  Steamroller  Puma
2015  Excavator    Puma+
2017  Zen          Excavator+
                   Zen
2020  Zen 2
2021  Zen 3
2022  Zen 4        Zen+, Zen2+

   Paul

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Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade Jason <jason_warren@INVALID.ieee.org> - 2025-04-04 16:46 -0400
  Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-04 22:43 -0400
    Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade jason_warren <jason_warren@ieee.org> - 2025-04-05 00:06 -0400
    Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade jason_warren <jason_warren@ieee.org> - 2025-04-05 00:29 -0400
      Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-05 04:06 -0400
  Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade Roger Mills <mills37.fslife@gmail.com> - 2025-04-05 22:01 +0100
    Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-05 18:12 -0400
    Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-06 12:47 +0000
      Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-06 10:51 -0400
        Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-06 15:18 +0000
          Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-06 11:46 -0400
            Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-07 12:30 +0000
              Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-07 14:47 -0400
    Re: Win Update not offering Win 11 upgrade Jason <jason_warren@INVALID.ieee.org> - 2025-04-10 17:06 -0400

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