Win 11 - PC Health Check Tool - How I passed.

Ok, first things first... here is the link to the PC Health Check Tool



I have a new computer, yet I failed the check. The main reason i failed was that I installed Windows 10 in a strange way.
No EFI or Recovery partitions, and on an MBR disk. (The MBR disk was not the problem)






First thing I did was go to the Advanced tab in the BIOS and "enable" AMD CPU fTPM (firmware TPM)
This should have fixed things, but it didn't. It does need to be enabled though.








The problem I was having was with some settings on the Boot tab, in the BIOS.
I "enabled" Secure Boot, and left it set on Other OS. In my case, Other OS or Windows UEFI... didn't matter.

Then I checked the CSM settings....






I had CSM enabled, but I had Boot Device Control set to (Legacy OPROM only).
It needed to be set to UEFI or UEFI and Legacy OPROM.

However... in my case, I had installed Windows 10 with it set to Legacy OPROM only.

Anyway, once I changed it to UEFI only... Windows wouldn't boot. So....
...I whipped out my Macrium Reflect Rescue Media USB stick, and booted from that.
Then I used the wonderful "Fix Boot Problems" tool.

This ran, and then I rebooted and entered the BIOS again. Now I had a new entry on the Boot tab, under the Boot Priorities heading.

Previously, under Boot Priorities, I had my Optical drive first, and my SSD with Windows, second.
Now though, I saw Windows Boot Manager, in the first slot, and my SSD in the second slot.
[Folks that install Win 10 normally, have probably always had the Windows Boot Manager]











So... I booted... into Windows, and ran the PC Health Check app again... this time, I passed with flying colors.











This has been a public service announcement. :)

Mike helped me out big time to get my X299 ready for Windows 11

Ghot said:

[Folks that install Win 10 normally, have probably always had the Windows Boot Manager]

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That's exactly what I've seen the entire time I've had this rig booting since last year.

Since it was all new, and I was clean installing, I opted to make all my disks GPT (all my data disks already were previously, so it was really only the 3 new NVMe that I had to change) and then installed Win10 and after my first BIOS update enabled both TPM (ver2) and Secure Boot.

I've never actually tried to install any other way on this machine. But seeing your explanation it now makes sense some of the extra steps that might be required. And also, kudos for showing MBR is not getting in the way as long as you can get the tool to verify you have a Secure boot available to use.

johnlgalt said:

That's exactly what I've seen the entire time I've had this rig booting since last year.

Since it was all new, and I was clean installing, I opted to make all my disks GPT (all my data disks already were previously, so it was really only the 3 new NVMe that I had to change) and then installed Win10 and after my first BIOS update enabled both TPM (ver2) and Secure Boot.

I've never actually tried to install any other way on this machine. But seeing your explanation it now makes sense some of the extra steps that might be required. And also, kudos for showing MBR is not getting in the way as long as you can get the tool to verify you have a Secure boot available to use.

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Secure Boot has always been enabled on my comp, but it's set to Other OS, still, rather than Windows UEFI.
But it passed the PC Health Check from MS??

Ghot said:

Secure Boot has always been enabled on my comp, but it's set to Other OS, still, rather than Windows UEFI.
But it passed the PC Health Check from MS??

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More evidence that the tool is FUBAR.

johnlgalt said:

More evidence that the tool is FUBAR.

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I think they just haven't got it... polished yet.





Help with passing the Windows 11 Compatibility Checks

lol yeah.

but it's Microsoft, so....I'm not holding my breath.

To be honest, you don't need this check. Just look at the list of hardware requirements and compare that with your hardware. I did run the first MS tool last week, but all it did was to tell me I am running an Education version, so "go to your IT guy". Needless to say, there is no IT guy. So I just installed it.