{"id":164532,"date":"2024-02-12T10:48:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/?p=164532"},"modified":"2024-02-12T10:48:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:48:09","slug":"windows-11-24h2-fail-boot-unsupported-cpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/windows-11-24h2-fail-boot-unsupported-cpus\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 24H2 will fail to boot in (some) unsupported CPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"sum\">\n<li>The next feature update could require the POPCNT instruction inside the processor.<\/li>\n<li>Computers without this feature will fail to boot Windows 11.<\/li>\n<li>The requirement increase will only affect very old hardware.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/windows-11-24h2-release-date-2024\/\">Windows 11 24H2<\/a> will increase the processor requirement to make very old hardware incapable of running the next version of the operating system. On X, user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBobPony\/status\/1756771051634135277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TheBobyPony<\/a> has found that the <a href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/windows-11-build-26052\/\">latest preview of version 24H2<\/a> now requires CPUs with the &#8220;POPCNT&#8221; instruction in order to boot properly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.felixcloutier.com\/x86\/popcnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>POPCNT<\/strong><\/a> stands for <strong>&#8220;population count&#8221;<\/strong> and refers to a hardware instruction used in various processor architectures that counts the number of set bits (bits with the value of 1) in a machine word. AMD was the first company to integrate this instruction into its Barcelona architecture in 2007, while Intel added the feature later on in its Nehalem architecture in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note that it&#8217;s expected that you will continue to be able to <a href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/install-windows-11-unsupported-pc\/\">install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware<\/a>. However, the new change means that devices with processors that are more than 16 years old won&#8217;t be able to start the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Since Microsoft hasn&#8217;t officially announced the requirement changes, it&#8217;s unclear how the company will implement this requirement. Remember that processors without the POPCNT instructions are already excluded since they are not part of the list of <a href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/windows-11-processor-requirements-intel-amd-qualcomm\/\">supported processors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One scenario could include users being able to bypass the requirements, but the computer will simply stop booting. Or, even after <a href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/install-windows-11-unsupported-pc\/\">creating a USB bootable media<\/a> that bypasses the requirements, the system will still block the installation on those processors without the required instruction, such as on Intel&#8217;s Core 2 Duo and AMD&#8217;s Turion II chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft plans to further block unsupported hardware from installing and running Windows 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2426,10,23],"tags":[2715,2744],"class_list":["post-164532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-windows","tag-windows-11","tag-windows-11-24h2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Windows 11 24H2 will fail to boot in (some) unsupported CPUs - Pureinfotech<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Windows 11 24H2 is set to increase CPU requirement to include the POPCNT instruction. 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