Get help upgrading your PC to Windows 11. TPM, Secure Boot, compatibility issues and more.
yeWgDNE
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by yeWgDNE » Fri Jan 09, 2026 3:42 am
+1 Yeah, that's exactly it—the FX series isn't supported, so the security check will always fail.
IR8B4
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by IR8B4 » Fri Jan 09, 2026 4:17 pm
+1 I had the same problem with an old Intel chip. The security requirement is a hard stop, so I had to upgrade the CPU.
6TnhB7ULzA65
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by 6TnhB7ULzA65 » Fri Jan 09, 2026 7:23 pm
You could also look into a registry edit workaround to bypass the CPU check, but it's not officially supported.
NWRRu
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by NWRRu » Sat Jan 10, 2026 2:39 pm
This. Before trying that, can you double-check if Secure Boot is actually enabled in your BIOS?
785Oe39
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by 785Oe39 » Sat Jan 10, 2026 3:41 pm
I had the same problem. My BIOS said Secure Boot was enabled, but the installer still failed until I also enabled TPM 2.0.
jfbe9888
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by jfbe9888 » Sun Jan 11, 2026 1:19 am
Same here. This happened to me. I had to go back into the BIOS and actually switch my drive from MBR to GPT before Secure Boot would work right.
700hnhvuk
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by 700hnhvuk » Sun Jan 11, 2026 4:16 am
Yeah, the AMD FX chips are definitely the issue because they don't have the required TPM 2.0 support.
nk1690278981
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by nk1690278981 » Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:06 pm
Same here. Agreed, that CPU is the main blocker. A small tip: you could check if a clean install from USB bypasses some checks, but it'll likely still fail on the CPU. Good luck!
18qhesc
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by 18qhesc » Mon Jan 12, 2026 1:00 am
This. Yeah, that's the issue. One extra thing: double-check your BIOS for TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot settings just in case, but the CPU is probably a dead end.
zi42618
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by zi42618 » Mon Jan 12, 2026 7:17 pm
I had the same problem with an old Ryzen chip. The CPU requirement is really strict, and no amount of BIOS tweaking got around it for me. Let me know if that works.