Win 10Pro to Win11 with ASUS P8P67Pro B3 Revision MB

Contemplating Updating my Win 10 PRO PC to Win 11.

My home built Windows PC was built around 2011. The MB is an ASUS P8P67Pro B3 Revision with an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz 3.30 GHz processor.

The Windows 11 upgrade test reports both Processor and MB have problems and so it seems I need to update the processor which should not be too hard, hopefully a plug in and reboot?

My problem is that the MB does not have ‘TPM Hardware’ installed or available. I have searched so many websites about this my brain hurts. I have no idea if this TPM can be added or not. I have read on this forum that a TPM module can be fitted to MB’s and Amazon lists many under ASUS but looking at the MB manual there is no mention of this and so no mention of where to plug it in.

So, I have some questions which I hope you can advise on.

I assume I can install a new MB that is up to date and includes this TPM requirement, however….

As I have learnt to my cost, things are never as straight forward as one hopes, if I leave the OS as it is and I buy a new MB and Processor and swap them for the ones in my PC, would the PC start up as before after setting the new MB BIOS settings to the same as previously?

Is there an accepted way of upgrading the Processor and MB ? Would I need to reinstall all software? I have Macrium Reflect so can image my system but would that be a simple reinstall?

To be honest I am not sure what to do, My PC works fine, bit slow but reliable. I am quite okay with buying a new processor and MB but do not want to end up with a dead PC. Is there another safe way to update to Win11 using my ASUS MB and an upgraded processor?

Assuming I am able to update will it upgrade to Win11 Pro or only Win11 Home?

Trapperr said:

Is there an accepted way of upgrading the Processor and MB ? Would I need to reinstall all software? I have Macrium Reflect so can image my system but would that be a simple reinstall?

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Welcome to Eleven Forum.

First make sure your digital licence for this PC is linked to your Microsoft account. After a significant hardware change such as a new motherboard you are likely to loose activation. You can re-activate it with the Activation Troubleshooter.

Trapperr said:

To be honest I am not sure what to do, My PC works fine, bit slow but reliable. I am quite okay with buying a new processor and MB but do not want to end up with a dead PC. Is there another safe way to update to Win11 using my ASUS MB and an upgraded processor?

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It will need to be a new motherboard. Your i5-2500K uses an LGA1155 socket. There are no supported processors that will fit that socket.

Trapperr said:

Assuming I am able to update will it upgrade to Win11 Pro or only Win11 Home?

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If you upgrade from Windows 10 Pro you will get Windows 11 Pro.

Thank you for your welcome and reply Bree. I have been on the Win 7 and 10 forums for some time, now ventured here.
So a new processor and MB will be required. At least now I know what is wanted. I can forget about TPM assuming the new MB is okay with MS.
Not sure how to check if the digital license is linked to my MS account. Not even sure where to find the license number. Would this be the Product or Device ID numbers?

Trapperr said:

Not sure how to check if the digital license is linked to my MS account. Not even sure where to find the license number. Would this be the Product or Device ID numbers?

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There is no number you need to find. All activated Windows 10/11 PCs have a digital licence stored on Microsoft's activation servers and linked to the hardware ID of the PC. Once a PC has a digital licence you can clean install the same edition (Home or Pro) and it will activate automatically from this digital licence. This digital licence is valid for both W10 and W11. Changing the hard drive has no effect on a PC's hardware ID, but changing the motherboard would.

Linking this digital licence to your Microsoft account is optional, but doing so allows you to reactivate after a significant hardware change.

Okay, I will link my license to my account, thanks for the link.

Just checked, it states that my license is linked to my MS account. One less problem!
I am in no hurry to upgrade, I still need to find a similar MB to my present one and make sure all I have will connect to it. I am not a heavy power user so hope my present set up PSU and so on will be fine.
Progress will be slow I think.....

I'm not sure what you mean by "a similar MB to my present one".

It is a standard ATX size, and takes a 24 pin primary power connector. That's still pretty standard.

It uses DDR3 RAM, so that's probably not suitable for a newer board.

It may be physically possible to install 11 on your present PC. Bypass Windows 11 TPM 2.0 and CPU System Requirements Tutorial

Not sure it's be worthwhile, though.

bobkn said:

I'm not sure what you mean by "a similar MB to my present one".

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# of F & R USB ports mainly, As some ATX MB's cost more than 6x the price of others there must be substantial differences.

bobkn said:

It is a standard ATX size, and takes a 24 pin primary power connector. That's still pretty standard.

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I did realise that.

bobkn said:

It uses DDR3 RAM, so that's probably not suitable for a newer board.

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I did not realise that, I thought my DDR3 RAM would be okay, obviously not .

bobkn said:

It may be physically possible to install 11 on your present PC. Bypass Windows 11 TPM 2.0 and CPU System Requirements Tutorial

Not sure it's be worthwhile, though.

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I did look through the tutorials to find out about Win11 and TPM, but missed the 'Bypass,' I was looking under - upgrade, install over Win10, TPM, and such like.
I will certainly have a look at the Tutorial you kindly linked to.
Worthwhile? Good question. That's what I am trying to weigh up, is it worth it spending out for new MB/Processor/Memory. going through the hassle of rebuilding my PC. Is Win 11 more practical (good for a non tech OAP) ? Or more complicated (NOT good for a non tech OAP!) ?

For the time being, why bother updating to W11?

I have been running W11 on my HP laptop since Dec 2021. So far I like it or maybe I just got use to it. But I also have a old HP Pavilion desktop (11 years old) that doesn't have a supported CPU or TPM. So it stays at W10. It works fine that way and still gets all the updates. I can run all the same applications on both of them.

The only issue I found is that, W11 doesn't support "Prolific" based USB to Serial Port cables. There is supposedly a way around this, but I didn't feel it was worth the bother. I guess I got use to plug and play. But, "FTDI" based USB to Serial Port cables are supported on W10 and W11. So I just bought new FTDI based cables to keep the computers compatible.

The more I dig into this the less I am inclined to go Win11. As said my Win10 is a bit slow but works fine. The old saying "If it ain't busted, don't fix it' comes to mind. With any luck this PC will do what I need for some time to come.

Thanks for your input guys, and best regards.

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...As said my Win10 is a bit slow but works fine. The old saying "If it ain't busted, don't fix it' comes to mind.

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Welcome to the forum, Trapperr.

Just in case you are unaware, EOL for Win10, isn't until 14th. Oct. 2025

You're good to go for quiet a while.

Thank you WXC, no need to panic then .

It is now possible to upgrade to equipment that officially supports win11 quite cheaply.

For example second hand 300 series motherboards can be had for as little as £40 ( though they get snapped up quite quickly ) , an i5-8400 is currently £35 at cex and a couple of sticks of 8gb ddr4 is about £36. That would provide better performance and lower power consumption than your current system and also has other things such as nvme support.

You could use the existing pc case, graphics card, power supply and storage. I am not familiar with amd hardware, but I expect the situation is similar.

You have Windows 10 Pro. You can create a VM using Hyper-V and run Windows 11 in a virtual machine for a while to see if you like it. You can even boot your existing physical computer from the .vhdx file installation of Windows 11 created by the virtual machine if you want to dual boot. The only issue with the VM is that the Windows 11 won't be activated automatically. If you wanted to activate it you would have to find some way to do that. If you booted your existing physical computer from the .vhdx, it would activate automatically, but not in the VM.

Thank you for your suggestions, I did try Win XP in a virtual drive in Win 7 Pro, some of my older programs did not run under 7, I did find this rather complicated so dropped old programs and just stayed with 7. I did dual boot as I installed a boot switch box (Orico) so had 7 and 10 to choose from, eventually gave up 7 when updates and support stopped.
Thanks for the upgrade suggestion, it is not the cost that made me hesitate, components as far superior these days and far cheaper than they were when I built this PC. It is making sure I get the right MB Processor and memory combinations. the same number of slots and type as my current MB (ASUSP67 Pro REV3.1) and still use SATA HD connectors, has at least 2 front USB sockets and 6 USB rear ports, not sure if you can piggy back USB ports, I am sure you could but not sure. I have 4 external USB Drives and two internal.

It is easy to look up on the motherboard website..

I have a b365 motherboard for 8th&9th gen intel cpus:

6 sata 3
6 usb 3
6 usb 2
1 pcie x16
1 pcie x4
1 pcie x1
1 m2 socket ( pcie x4)


310 motherboards will typically have :

4 sata 3
4 usb 3
6 usb 2
1 pcie x16
2 pcie x1
1 m2 socket ( pcie x2)

It was a nice idea, but I am putting this on hold. I have time to investigate before EOL with w10. I read so many problems with installing new MB's and me not being very much up on todays systems I may end up with a metal brick.
I cannot afford to take the risk, there are 100's of MB's with various specs, getting it right would be 90% luck and 10% knowledge ! A dangerous combination.
My grateful thanks to you for your advice and comments, they are appreciated.

Alan.

Well , still planning on a WIndows 10 to 11 upgrade, and thank you for your previous help and posts.

I have been in contact with ASUS Support who have been very helpful, many emails later I have the following on my Amazon list:
These are within my budget and seem to fit my needs as I use the PC for mainly data and the rare game. And will hopefully not need updating again for some time!

ASUS ROG STRIX B660-A GAMING WIFI D4 MB 124567,Black

Corsair CMK16GX4M2D3000C16 Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3000 MHz C16 XMP 2.0 High Performance Desktop Memory Kit, Black

Intel Core i5-12400F 12th generation desktop processor (base frequency: 2.5 GHz, 6 cores, LGA1700, DDR4 RAM and up to 128 GB DDR5) BX8071512400F
Seems my existing T1050 graphics card and Corsair GS800w PSU will be okay.
So that's the hardware sorted - Agree or suggestions?
Is there a Tutorial that will help with the MB change without -or a very small risk of screwing up my PC?

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Trapperr said:

Is there a Tutorial that will help with the MB change without -or a very small risk of screwing up my PC?

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It's not that hard. You'll need a Philips head screw driver and an LED flashlight.
Many of the problems people have when building a PC is... not enough light.

They won't "see" that something isn't gonna fit, and will try forcing it.
There's also tiny little writing on the motherboard (usually identifying the connectors), that you won't see without a good light source.


Here's the link for your motherboard manual (pdf).
Download it and read it a few times.



Thingies...

1. Install the motherboard. 9 screws, 9 standoffs. Use them ALL. No more, no less... NINE.
2. The CPU will have a tiny triangle on one corner, so will the CPU socket. They must be matched.
3. Install the CPU then the RAM, then vid card.
4. Hook up the 24 pin and 4/8 pin CPU power cables to the motherboard.
5. Hook up the vid card power cable(s).
6. Hook up the front panel switch/LED connectors. Use the flashlight.
7. Install any M.2 or SATA drives, and for any SATA drives, route power cable(s) to them.
8. Install the CPU cooler. Don't forget the thermal paste.
9. Hook up all the case connectors to the motherboard (usually along the bottom of motherboard).
10. Route any fan or CPU cooler cables.










Try to boot the computer. Try to get into the BIOS... DEL.









It's pretty simple. It's like adult Legos.
As mentioned above... most problems come if you try to "force" things. Use the LED flashlight.

Thank you Ghot for your detailed reply, I will print out the manual and take my time. I have some good lighting so now just need to order the parts.
The CPU suggested by Amazon was LGA 1200 and the board is LGA1700 so not compatible, it pays to check!

Update.
Tried to order the items from Amazon, the basket price and checkout totals did not agree, spent 15 min on the phone speaking to someone I could hardly understand, then got cut off!
Phoned again, same accent and same hard to understand, about 10 min later got the prices sorted after going through the same issues again.
Payment to verify screen locked and did nothing.
Somehow got back to the order and found there was an error in verification, I know, the screen was locked so could not verify.
Tried again and this time I could verify.
The 5 items I ordered would be delivered on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Are we really expected to stay at home for 4 days, not daring to go out?
I phoned them back and asked them to cancel the lot and make sure I got a refund.
I will leave the PC in its present state, working fine.