Recent content by bobkn

is there a point to using Rufus on supported hardware? I suppose there could be an issue with install.wim being over 4GB, creating a problem a FAT32 drive. (My preference is to split it with DISM.)

I suppose that the security value of core isolation may be less than enabling old hardware to continue to work. I don't know whether to criticize Microsoft, Dymo, or both. :-|

https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/mdnsnsp-bonjour-blocked-lsa/ I wonder whether Dymo has an updated version of their software?

Device Manager isn't the place to look. I've used the Everything search tool. Even if the application that installed it has been uninstalled, a copy may remain in the Driver Store. It can be removed using PnPUtil: PnPUtil Command Syntax - Windows drivers Don't use it on the driver itself. Use...

It's not supported. Hence Rufus.

I checked. The FX-6300 supports the SSE 4.2 instructions, so it should run Win 11 24H2. https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/fx-6300.c1210 I'm not clear on what "angeltdw" is seeing. The PC won't boot from the USB thumb drive at all?

I presume that the front panel USB ports used the 20 pin USB 3 header of that motherboard. (Which is in what seems to me to be an unusual position.) https://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/h110m-hdv/#Manual It never occurred to me that there might be a demand for old cases. I've scrapped several.

Later: I looked at an H97 (chipset, LGA 1150 CPU) board that seems to from the right period. It had a 20 pin USB 3 header. I presume that your old case used one. My main complaint of a case that old is that it won't have a USB Gen2 front panel port. Newer motherboards tend to come with headers...

I resorted to MS Copilot to check what case might have been used for the B661. I got a variety of responses, probably all false. The most plausible one was a Cooler Master Masterbox NR600, but I see a 2019 review of that at Gamer's Nexus. Doesn't match a PC from 2016. Even then, Cooler Master...

The main issue would be whether the cabling from the front USB ports matches headers on the new motherboard. What is your old case?

Thanks. It's better. Disk Management cannot, as far as I know, merge partitions that aren't adjacent. I don't know whether a third-party utility could manage it, especially with only one drive in the PC. I wonder what the partitions on the original 1TB drive looked like? I suspect that the...

Image is 320X200. Too small to read.

I looked at the log. I didn't find it helpful. The only install I've ever done on unsupported hardware was a laptop with a Gen6 Intel CPU that had been running Win10. It met the other Win11 requirements (including a firmware TPM 2.0). All that I needed to do was set a Registry key. Subsequent...

I've had it "stick" there. At that point, it was downloading files. Apparently, the Microsoft servers may not be highly responsive. Just wait a while. It may finish.

I don't follow what you've done, but I see that that XPS 17 L702X is quite old, with an unsupported CPU (i7-2630QM). However, the CPU is supposed to support SSE4.2, which means that it should be possible to run Win 11 24H2 on it.