Windows 11 download

I’ve been having issues installing Windows 11 on my AMD Framework 13. Whenever booting from my bootable USB with windows 11 (created with RUFUS) I am told that I need to install drivers to detect my hardware. First, I saw the forum saying to disable WiFi in the BIOS, but the option it was telling me to disable wasn’t in my BIOS (I updated to the most recent version, 3.05). To attempt to resolve this, I installed Windows 10 with the plan to upgrade from 10 to 11. With 10 installed, I wasn’t getting the option to upgrade to 11 in Windows update. I updated the BIOS and my drivers using the bundle on the Framework website. I noticed Windows said TPM wasn’t found, so I figured that was the issue since TPM 2.0 is required for Windows 11. I went into the BIOS and enabled TPM and saved. Back in Windows 10, it still said it wasn’t found, so I went back into the BIOS. TPM had automatically disabled itself even though I saved, so I tried enabling TPM again, but it once again disabled itself. I found no resolution to this, so I moved on to try other things. I wiped the drive and tried to simply install Windows 11 again. When prompted with installing drivers, I had trouble because Framework doesn’t have drivers available in a way where I could load them onto a USB and add them. I tried taking the executable Framework provides and opening it as an archive to get the raw files. After putting these on a USB, the Windows setup still wouldn’t accept them so I was unable to update the drivers this way. I used multiple different tools to try and bypass this screen like Ventoy, but none worked.

I see two ways of solving this. The first would be a way to prevent TPM from disabling itself after enabling it in the BIOS, and upgrading from Windows 10 to 11. The other would be to bypass the Windows setup screen asking my to update drivers to make my hardware detectable. Any help or other solutions would be much appreciated!

If you get this prompt instead of the “drive selection” page during Setup, your install media was not created properly.

Booting the ISO via Ventoy and writing the ISO directly to a flash drive both result in this issue. It prevents Windows setup from seeing your NVMe drive.

Use the official Microsoft “Media Creation Tool” to create your bootable install media.


If you get this prompt after installation, but before setting up a user account: press Shift+F10, click inside the Command Prompt window that opens up, type OOBE\BYPASSNRO and press Enter.

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Hello!
I’ve tried using the media creation tool already but I tried again to make sure and it didn’t work for me; I still got to the screen saying “Install driver to show hardware.”

The issue is the RZ616 wifi card in the FW AMD 7xxx series laptops. I suggest you follow these steps to tell the W11 installer to start with no internet connection.

How to Install and Set Up Windows 11 Without an Internet Connection

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Alternatively if it is stuck on looking for a Network device, a USB-C hub with an ethernet connection generally will fulfil the Internet connection requirement. Most of them have drivers recognized by the Windows Installer environment.

If you are open to trying a different operating system Ubuntu Linux OS has all the drivers on the install USB and has been tested with Framework Laptops. You can even create the USB and try a LIVE version without installing anything.