Windows 10: Is Windows 11 likely to be capable of running on a Gigabyte X299 motherboard with an...

When I run the PC Health Check it identifies that my PC doesn't CURRENTLY meet the Windows 11 system requirements. The ONLY identified issue is that the CPU is not CURRENTLY supported.CPU is i7-7740X CPU @4.30GHz, 4301 MHz, 4 Cores, 8 Logical ProcessorsOtherwise: The PC supports Secure BootTPM 2.0 is enabled on the PC TPM 2.0There is at least 4GB of system memory 64 GBThe system disk is 64GB or larger 2000 GBThe processor has two or more cores 4Will support likely be extended to the i7-7740X in due course?

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No Audio with Gigabyte B560 HD3 running Windows 11

I have built 2 new systems using Gigabyte B560 HD3 Motherboards and installing Windows 11 Pro. Everything works great except there is NO sound from the speakers (which have tested good). Neither build had any sound output.

Every troubleshooting step that I'm familiar with was tried plus all applicable ones that I've found on-line. I discussed this issue with Gigabyte support people and we tried everything they suggested and they stated that the MBs were defective.

I also talked to Microsoft support and we went through all the trouble shooting steps they knew still pointing to a defective MBs.

Both Gigabyte B560 HD3 being defective seemed strange but they were consecutive serial numbers so maybe there were some bad Realtek cards? The Mbs were returned to Gigabyte and exchanged for two new replacements. After building the system with the
first new replacement board the NO SOUND issue is still there. The correct updates had/have been made with BIOS, audio drivers etc.
yet still no sound. It doesn't seem that the MB is the issue but something is missing in the link between the Realtek Audio portion of the board and the rear panel outputs. Surely someone else has had this issue as well. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

Windows 10 compatibility with Gigabyte X58A-UD3R motherboard

Hi,

Please follow the methods mentioned below:

Method 1:

I suggest you to run in-built Power troubleshooter and check. Follow the steps:

• Press Windows Key + X..
• Click on Control Panel.
• Select Troubleshooting.
• On the left pane, click on View All.
• Click on Power to run the troubleshooter.

Method 2: If the above method doesn’t help, I would suggest you to
reset and restore all of the default Power Plans back with their default settings. Follow the steps.

• Press Windows Key + X.
• Select Command Prompt (Admin).
• At the command prompt, type
  powercfg -restoredefaultschemes and then press ENTER.
• At the command prompt, type exit to exit the Command Prompt window.
• Restart the computer and check with the issue.

Hope it helps.

 

Gigabyte motherboards and Windows 10

You request seems like a thinly veiled rant against Gigabyte.

Also your basic premise seems to be flawed (that because the hardware can support Windows 10, that if Gigabyte doesn't make work, Gigabyte is cheating you, no matter how old the motherboard is.)

Microsoft can state that XXX is the minimum requirements to run Windows 10.

But it is the minimum, not a guarantee that Windows 10 will work on that machine, or if it will run into problems or not. In a nutshell the hardware is only part of the picture, and the BIOS, and drivers and such are the rest.

If I have a 15 year old motherboard it might have all the specs needed to run Windows 10. But something that old you are not going to get new drivers. It just not economical for any manufacture to update drivers for something that old. Now it is very
possible that the old drivers might work just fine in Windows 10. Good you are lucky (and in fact most will be lucky).

So we come to "force obsolescence", to you that seems to mean that if it is possible, Gigabyte should make it work for you. Well from a manufacture's point of view you paid for product/service for a certain period of time that they have calculated into
price you paid for your motherboard vs how much it costs to make and support such. I have actually no idea of how many years that Gigabyte will update drivers for their motherboard, but I do know it is not infinite. And most likely if they are going to test
and fix drivers, they will start with their newest motherboards and as time goes on work backwards test/fixing older ones.

I notice that you request the spec's from other people's machines, but didn't do the same for yours.

And in the way you stated the question you neither want people to try to help you with your problem, or to use the information to buy a configuration that works.

For what its worth the machine I'm typing does have a Gigabyte motherboard in it, that frankly I really like. In fact I like it better than a similar Asus motherboard I have in another machines. Both machines upgraded with no real problems. I think there
was a license problem on one of the AMD tools I don't use, and later I even found an update for it. I did do clean installs of both of them, but that was mostly because of the fact on one of them I had the classic upgrade problem. As in there a ton of settings
that have to be transferred perfectly from one operating system to another, and doing so is extremely hard to do without any problems. Microsoft has got a lot better at it, but still problems can creep in, and they did on one machine. And I decided a clean
install was the better approach then try to weed out these settings/install kind of problems one at a time.

I have also run both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 10 on this machine.