How to fix a computer that can not install Windows 8

Windows 8 has been released and millions of users have installed and explore the new features in Windows 8. And at the same time also seems many users are having problems when upgrading to windows 8. When looking for a solution on google or bing, hundreds of users who have tried to upgrade to Windows 8 to have problems like this at the last setup "our PC's CPU is not compatible with Windows 8", although his computer spec is support for Windows 8 installed. According to Microsoft itself, an error (error) occurs when the processor (CPU) does not support any of the following features: Physical Address Extension (PAE), NX, or SS2.

Users who experience this problem can try to enable the NX feature under security settings BIOS. If there is, we will see the NX or XD settings under security tab. And if the option is not available, we may need to visit the manufacturer and update the BIOS to the latest version.

So, Is there a way to install Windows 8 to get past this error? Currently, there is no solution to install Windows 8 on a machine that does not support PAE/NX/SSE2. As we know, Windows installer contains two versions: installer of commercial end-users and installers. Commercial Installer runs when the PC is booted from bootable media and do not look for the features mentioned above. But according to a information released by Microsoft, if a user tries an alternative version of the setup (commercial installer) on systems that do not support PAE/NX/SSE2, users will find the same error during the setup process.

Note : If you get the same error on a virtual machine, turn on the PAE / NX in a virtual machine or in the software configuration manager.

How to check CPU (processor) that supported Windows 8

For those who have errors teman2 "Your PC's CPU is not compatible with Windows 8" when installing or upgrading to windows 8 windows 8. This problem occurs because Windows requires a CPU feature that supports PAE, NX, and SSE2 before starting the installation of windows 8. Although almost all current processors support this feature, but what's the harm if we check again whether the processor is a computer / laptop support fitur2 we mentioned above, the trick is quite simple, just download a small program and run a command, the program is named Coreinfo can help us to see if the cpu / processor can support to install Windows 8.

Please follow the instructions given below to know how to use the tool Coreinfo PC to verify whether your processor supports PAE, NX, and SSE2.

1. Download Coreinfo here and extract the file to get a file coreinfo.exe.
2. Open Command Prompt by entering cmd in the Start menu search box and hit enter. If you are on Windows 8 CP or DP, switch to the Start screen, type CMD and press enter to start the same thing.
3. At the command prompt and enter the full path to the file coreinfo.exe then press Enter. For example, if you save the file coreinfo.exe on the desktop, you must type in C: \ Users \ Username \ Desktop \ Coreinfo.exe and press enter.
   
4. Look at the results, check whether the entries in PAE, NX, and SSE2. If your processor supports this feature, we will see an * next to the name of the feature, and character, if not supported. As we see in the picture below, we turned the processor supports PAE, NX, and SSE2.