Windows 10 refuses to upgrade over Windows 7 SP1

[Ekendra Edrisinghe]

I have been trying to upgrade to Windows 10 but the system refuses to upgrade as it says "CPU isn't supported".

I am using Pentium Dual Core CPU E5700 @ 3.00 Ghz

What may be wrong?



Ekendra

 

[Nibiru2012]

Your CPU should work just fine. The E5700 is normally clocked at 3.0 GHz.
Do you have yours overclocked maybe? You state 34.00 GHz, but that's a typo for sure.

The update may be persnickety and not like an overclocked CPU.

 

[Ekendra Edrisinghe]

Sorry.. Yes. That was a typo!

In another Forum I was asked to "Try enabling Execute disable bit in bios". It was enabled
Not sure where the problem lies!!

 

[Davee3]

My upgrade came through & I requested install Screen says "working on it" but has stayed at that for over 2 hours?
This is on my laptop HP with SSD So cancelled & went back to windows icon & asked again to Continue This time looks like a go as I got a great lets get started message

 

[Davee3]

Then a shutdown & auto start to configuring for windows 10 0% 6% after 1 minute

 

[Billfern]

I had some real bad luck with installing this. One, a formerly Vista computer running Windows 7 upgraded just fine, the other three all coughed and choked on the internet download. So what worked just fine, made a media disk on a USB stick, installed from that, all three non working computers, wonderfull. All went well.

 

[Ekendra Edrisinghe]

The error message I got was that the NX feature was not enabled on the CPU.

How may I enable the NX feature?

 

[BigFeet]

Most likely in your bios. Since they are all different, you may have to hunt around for it, or find a manual on your specific motherboard.

 

[Ekendra Edrisinghe]

Checked the BIOS and it would seem that NX facility is NOT available.
Only option I guess is to upgrade the CPU to a i5 (expensive) or find a way to flash BIOS

 

[BigFeet]

The CPU supports NX. You may need to flash your bios. And you're right, upgrading to an i series would be a bit expensive, since you would need a new motherboard.

 

[Ekendra Edrisinghe]

Thanks BigFeet... grateful if you can help with flashing the BIOS... URLs links etc. Thank you

 

[michael honour]

After 4 days of trying install still crashes at 32%

 

[Ekendra Edrisinghe]

I have successfully flashed the bios with a later version but still cannot determine if NX has been enabled. Will look further.