It still worked for WU upgardes, a few months ago it didn't work with 24H2 ISO upgrades anymore, 26100.1742 seems to work with older methods again. But this tool works fine for ISO upgrades and clean installs: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/win-11-boot-and-upgrade-fix-kit-v5-0-released.83724/
I have used this to perform a clean install of 26100.712 and 26100.1150 (Education) on 2 different computers. No problems encountered here. YMMV.
The clean install is more forgiving of requirements than the in-place upgrade. But honestly, if you have a 12 year old computer you'll probably not be too happy with Windows 11 anyway for performance reasons, and I'd install LTSC IoT instead.
I'm finding the task manager very unresponsive and buggy. Almost the same as in 23H2. Why does it take so long for MS to fix something this long? Win11 has gone backwards in some ways. Impossible to install 24H2 without an outlook account and internet access. Talk about software controlled.
Anyone with an AMD FX, which technically supports SSE 4.2 and PopCNT, successfully booted into 24H2? I fear this CPU's support of PopCNT may be broken, as I have made boot disks in both MBR and GPT form, and both of them do attempt to start booting, but just freeze at the Windows logo, USB devices shut down, and it locks up, no spinner. When going the EFI route, since the motherboard is a bit on the older side, I even tried DUET just to see if the EFI implementation was to blame, but same thing. DUET can start the boot loader, but the kernel will not proceed. This happens either when booting from the USB disk, or after doing an inplace upgrade and make it to the first reboot (which promptly does the same thing until it reboots again to wind back the update with a "SAFE_OS" error). Oddly I can boot to 24H2 with HyperV in VirtualBox on the same machine, leading me to believe at least some form of PopCNT appears to be working, but not when the host is booting it. If I'm stuck on 23H2, it's whatever. I'm not upgrading hardware that still boots in 5 seconds and plays most modern games (shockingly to be honest), it's not in my budget whatsoever when bills come first. EDIT: For a sanity check I used the same USB disks (both legacy and UEFI versions) on my ThinkPad which had a 4th Gen i7 (also unsupported), and it boots and installs both just fine, so this seems to be strictly tied to the AMD FX machine. Really bizarre though that it actually has SSE 4.2 yet fails in the way you'd expect as if it didn't have 4.2.
I'm at a loss then. My FX-8370 is behaving as if it didn't have SSE 4.2, as I do have a Core 2 machine and can confirm the behavior with 24H2 is oddly the same, hung Windows logo, no spinner. If your FX-8300 can boot 24H2 just fine, that makes no sense why my 8370 is refusing to (except within Virtual Box). I'm not entirely sure then how to go from here since the bypass is in place, and the bypass is technically working as it's not complaining about the requirements at all, but I can't upgrade past the first reboot, nor even boot the USB disk at all. Guess I'm throwing in the towel and staying on 23H2.
PopCNT doesn't matter anymore in 26100, requirements were bumped to the full sse 4.2 support in ~26080 build, don't remember which one exactly and it doesn't matter
I'm really confused then, what does an FX-8300 have, that an FX-8370 does not? If someone was able to boot 24H2 on an 8300, then the 8370 would easily be just as capable here.
I never try to understand anything dealing with Microsoft, I may even install Windows 10 IoT LTSC on it because it's still supported for 7 years.
It's quite literally the same chip, only the 8370 runs at a slightly higher voltage and hotter. The sensible thing would be to swap to a ryzen.
I have no intention to buy a new computer, so I'm just going to sign off. I have medical bills for heart failure which is far more important. Considering I doubt I'll even be alive in a few years considering last month I already had it stop on me and broke my face on the fall, I don't need to be stressing over a Windows update. Screw it, I'm downgrading to Windows 10 and calling it a day. There's literally no point in a new computer (Socket AM3 did not get Ryzen, so I'm boned), if I won't get to even enjoy it long. I'd rather continue enjoying a machine that has already done more than enough for me. It'll take me all the way at this point.