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June 25th, 2021 09:00
Will our Dell XPS desktop computers run Windows 11?
I'm sure there will be many questions regarding this over the next few weeks and months, and more angst when people find out that their not too old computer isn't up to running Windows 11.
From the current questions regarding TPM 2.0, I can assume that people are already considering this. It's easy to check whether you have TPM 2.0. Press Windows Key + R, enter tpm.msc in the popup box and press enter. If your computer has TPM 2.0, then a box similar to that below will open. This is for my Dell XPS 8940 and it can be seen that this does indeed have TPM 2.0.
I've done this for both my Dell XPS 8900 and XPS 8940 and both have TPM 2.0.
So first hurdle crossed successfully, on to the next.
So Microsoft have released an App that you can download and run to check whether your PC will be compatible with Windows 11 here. Scroll down to the bottom of the page - it's under Check for compatibility.
So running this for my XPS 8940 gave me the thumb's up. But the App reported that my XPS 8900 is not capable of running Windows 11. Looking in detail at the requirements, this is probably for 2 reasons:
- My graphics card, an NVIDIA GTX 750, is too old and doesn't support DirectX 12 / WDDM 2.x.
- My CPU is too old. My XPS 8900 has a 6th gen. Intel i7-6700 Skylake CPU fitted but the minimum spec. CPUs listed for Windows 11 are 8th gen. Coffee Lake.
Looking at the range of Dell XPS desktops to-date, it is likely that only the XPS 8930 and XPS 8940 models will meet the requirements for Windows 11.
Jon-62
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June 29th, 2021 00:00
More confusion from Microsoft as PC Health Check app pulled. See article here.
speedstep
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June 29th, 2021 04:00
You cant have CSM or legacy you must have UEFI secure boot on to enable tpm via ptt.
spotteddog
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June 29th, 2021 05:00
Speedstep,
Can I go into the bios and enable UEFI secure boot without any problems? Or is there more to it than that?
And. If I do that and have problems, will I be able to go back to the bios and disable UEFI secure boot? I don't know why UEFI secure boot is disabled. I never disabled it and I understood that on the XPS8930, the default for UEFI secure boot was supposed to be enabled.
ppotos
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June 29th, 2021 11:00
I have exact same problem, XPS 8930 and TPM is greyed out and can't enable
RoHe
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June 29th, 2021 12:00
On XPS 8930:
Legacy Options ROM - disabled
UEFI - enabled
Secure Boot - enabled
Firmware TPM - enabled
If you've installed an after-market ('retail") video card, PC may not boot with Secure Boot enabled, unless you re-install the Dell OEM GPU...
NawaazK
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July 1st, 2021 12:00
There is a solution for this. Go to account settins and then go to access work or school account in settings under account. Disconnect connected microsoft account or microsoft office 365 account listed there click disconnect. then it will disconnect that account. then check on pc health provided by microsoft and then it should say that good news it can run windows 11 or it shows requirements when you check for update on the pc health check software.
This solution worked on my XPS 17 9700 ( 2020) model. 2019 models or any previous xps model may have some other requirement check on microsoft or contact suuport for that
RMAC12
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October 9th, 2021 10:00
So for all you guys banging your heads against the wall trying to figure out how to upgrade to win11, I'm about to throw you all into a tail spin. Here's what I have:
Dell XPS 8900 Intel i7-6700@3.40Hz
GEFORCE GTX 1060
WDC WDS200T2BOB-00YS70 (2TB SSD)
RAM 24 GB
Ok so this is my system & I like everyone else did the compatibility check because I wanted win 11 & NO JOY, got the same results as all of you... oh well, that's it... I thought LOL. The next day I went in to upgrade what I thought were a few MINOR updates that were listed, wifi adaptor & 2 other's that I didn't really pay to much attention to & started the update process, I'm watching TV & doing other things while this update in in progress , so after about 20 mins I checked & still updating, continued watching TV, checked 40 mins later & still updating, took a phone call, & now it's been almost 1 1/2 hours & the MUTHER F is still updating I'm like WT% is going on with this MF ! So just as I was about to pull the power cord & reboot thinking something was stuck, a message popped up saying
" update completing " & after a few mins it booted to my normal login screen & after login ( I guess u all know where this is going at this point LOL) low & behold...WIN 11 !!!!! I almost fell out my chair LOL. I have no idea how this happen, I changed no settings or rearrange anything, I'm completely @ a lost for words how this happened ,but so far so good, everything transferred over perfectly & running as smooth as ever !! My suggestion to all with similar systems... try it again !!! LOL
MyPlainNickname
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October 10th, 2021 11:00
There's a way to bypass it - The easy way to install Windows 11 on unsupported CPUs - The Verge