Now, if you get the latter error, it doesn’t mean you don’t have a TPM chip on your motherboard.
XPwSA9rSoH- Robert Hallock? JHow to check if your PC supports TPM, or whether it’s turned on Image: Microsoft No 2.0? Don't worry: Most mobos offer fTPM 1.2 at a minimum, which will also work w/ future builds of Win11 according to MS tech docs. AMD Ryzen BIOS code (AGESA) offers fTPM 2.0.
Pro tip: trying to install Windows 11? You currently need Trusted Platform Module (TPM 2.0). (Importantly, while the Windows 11 specs say you’ll need TPM 2.0 for the OS to run, Microsoft’s own technical notes say future Windows 11 builds will support TPM 1.2, according to AMD’s technical marketing director.) Most motherboards from the last half decade or so all support TPM, and everything from the decade before that supports TPM 1.2. Unless you’re running something from the Windows 98/2000 era, chances are your PC already supports some form of TPM. It’s been used before as an anti-cheat mechanism, Windows Domain logins, BitLocker disk encryption, or in some implementations of DRM.
For the most part, TPM chips kick in when you computer starts up, ensuring that your PC boots with a trusted combo of hardware and software until Windows is fully loaded. That’s not all TPM is useful for, though. TPM, or Trusted Platform Module, is basically a secure cryptoprocessing chip on your PC or laptop motherboard. What is Trusted Platform Module (TPM)? A shot of a TPM setting inside an older ASUS motherboard BIOS. The biggest culprit is something called Trusted Platform Module, or TPM, which is something many gamers probably aren’t aware of. The answer isn’t because of RAM, storage, your CPU or any of the other basic internals that come with a PC.
But even though your PC is more than capable of playing today’s games at perfectly acceptable frame rates and resolutions, you might get a warning saying it’s not compatible with Windows 11. It’s finally announced, and it’s actually called Windows 11.