Windows 11 Related Discussion [NOT OFFICIAL]

Our luck might be changing here. Asus have released a beta bios for their older 6th and 7th gen boards that will support win11 on their B250 series boards. Bear in mind this is a BETA bios so I'd make sure that you have a test rig or a motherboard that you're not worried about losing and can re-flash using a CH341A re-programmer. What ever you do, don't install a beta bios on your main PC. Haven't seen any update from any others or if there has been any release on the Z200 or 100 series boards but that might change if this beta is successful.

Just a quick update. Thought I'd have a look at my bios and sysinfo in windows to see why MS decided not to support 7th gen kaby lake. Apparently its to do with hardware DMA Kernal protection and I think that when this is enabled it also enables VBS as well and I can't find a way to enable the DMA protection on mine.

OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Home

Version 10.0.22000 Build 22000

Other OS Description Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name

System Manufacturer Acer

System Model Aspire TC-780

System Type x64-based PC

System SKU 0000000000000000

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7400 CPU @ 3.00GHz, 3000 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. R02-B0, 12/6/2017

SMBIOS Version 3.0

Embedded Controller Version 255.255

BIOS Mode UEFI

BaseBoard Manufacturer Acer

BaseBoard Product Aspire TC-780(KBL)

BaseBoard Version

Platform Role Desktop

Secure Boot State On

PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View

Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS

System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2

Locale United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.22000.1"

User Name

Time Zone Central Daylight Time

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB

Total Physical Memory 15.9 GB

Available Physical Memory 9.77 GB

Total Virtual Memory 18.3 GB

Available Virtual Memory 11.8 GB

Page File Space 2.38 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Kernel DMA Protection Off

Virtualization-based security Not enabled

Device Encryption Support Elevation Required to View

Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes

Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes

Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes

Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes

This is what mine says and has the same issue with DMA and VBS

Been looking at that myself as well. Windows defender I think enables it through memory core isolation but will depend on your PC being able to support it but I don't know if this has anything to do with DMA and this is only speculation at this point. If your sysinfo is the same as mine then it looks like as it stands currently DMA and VBS aren't supported. Don't know much on what Acer and MSI are doing as they could be waiting on seeing what other board manufacturers are doing first before they take the plunge. Gigabyte will most likely start testing soon from what I've seen there and Asus have already started testing boards. so we may see DMA kernal protection and VBS with Asus soon possibly as they've only put the update up to enable TPM 2.0 by default but as they test them they may add support for DMA and VBS in the final version. The link below will tell you what asus boards are being tested there so it might be worth taking a look.

ASUS Motherboards Ready for Windows 11

Had a play about with windows defender on the laptop which has a i3 6100U in it with TPM 2.0 enabled and it turns out VBS can be enabled by turning on memory core isolation. This is most likely going to be software based however if DMA is enabled in the bios then core isolation is automatically enabled so it does answer a few questions. Tried it on the main machine but no luck yet. Apparently to do with driver compatibility

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro

Version 10.0.19043 Build 19043

Other OS Description Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name KCAM002

System Manufacturer HP

System Model HP EliteBook 820 G3

System Type x64-based PC

System SKU L4Q15AV

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6100U CPU @ 2.30GHz, 2304 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date HP N75 Ver. 01.52, 20/04/2021

SMBIOS Version 2.7

Embedded Controller Version 133.121

BIOS Mode UEFI

BaseBoard Manufacturer HP

BaseBoard Product 807C

BaseBoard Version KBC Version 85.79

Platform Role Mobile

Secure Boot State On

PCR7 Configuration Bound

Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS

System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3

Locale United Kingdom

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.19041.1151"

Username KCAM002\kcam0

Time Zone GMT Summer Time

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 12.0 GB

Total Physical Memory 11.9 GB

Available Physical Memory 7.47 GB

Total Virtual Memory 13.7 GB

Available Virtual Memory 8.94 GB

Page File Space 1.81 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Kernel DMA Protection Off

Virtualisation-based security Running

Virtualisation-based security required security properties

Virtualisation-based security available security properties Base Virtualisation Support, Secure Boot, DMA Protection, Secure Memory Overwrite

Virtualisation-based security services configured Hypervisor enforced Code Integrity

Virtualisation-based security services running Hypervisor enforced Code Integrity

Windows Defender Application Control policy Enforced

Windows Defender Application Control user mode policy Off

Device Encryption Support Meets pre-requisites

A hypervisor has been detected. Features required for Hyper-V will not be displayed.

Mine is the same case