![]() ![]() The real kicker is that after I upgraded the CPU and SSD and did the Dell TPM Firmware update to that little Dell mini I reinstalled clean Windows 10 21H1 then had it go get all of the latest updates before I installed and ran Passmark's Performance benchmark on it, documented all the results, then signed it up for the dev insider and within minutes Windows Update informed me that Windows 11 beta was available so I clicked and it installed.Then I installed and ran Passmark's benchmark again and surprisingly that same system actually performed slightly better on the beta of Windows 11 than it did on Windows 10 21H1. It's not a gaming machine but it doesn't suck to use for most other things and so far it's handled everything I've thrown at it while running on Windows 11 just fine. ![]() The frustrating part of this is that I inherited a Dell mini Pentium G over the summer with a crashed hard drive that accepted a i7-6700T CPU upgrade and ssd and Dell offered a firmware update for its' existing TPM that stepped it from 1.2 to 2.0 (not all TPM modules will do that) so it met every MS requirement except for the CPU and it got accepted into the insider program dev channel during the summer when they were allowing anyone to try it out and after October 5th this little mini 6700T got notified that its' CPU is not compatible with Windows 11 but it still got sent the final public RC update anyway which stepped it out of the dev channel into the official public RC and it has since stepped itself up to the latest 21H2 0.282 public release like 2 weeks ago and it's still getting all the security and feature updates today even though that CPU didn't make the requirements list. ![]() So this lack of a PTT setting in BIOS implies that the board won't provide on-cpu TPM access plus apparently the 4790K version of this CPU doesn't support Intel Trusted Execution Technology PTT on-chip TPM1.2 anyway (much less TPM2.0) so it sounds like this system, or at least with a K version chip on it, would need a TPM module and finding any of them, even a compatible 1.2 version, is proving difficult.ĭoes that appear to pretty much sum things up for these boards and Windows 11 or what other successful paths have others with this combination managed to successfully do? Is that a valid description of the TPM module situation for this board? I was 1 version below the beta BIOS already and it wasn't there so I stepped up to the beta version and it's still not there.įrom what I've read over the past 5 months the Z97 chipset on this board is limiting it to a TPM1.2 module (if you can even find one) as the data I've seen so far says the 20-1 pin TPM2.0 modules are not compatible with this board, only the proper TPM 1.2 modules will work. I have a i7-4790K on a Z97 based ASUS Maximus VII Hero board and that Advanced PTT BIOS setting that the Hero VIII and some other boards do have absolutely does not exist for this board, at least not with the K version of the 4790 chip on it, even in the final BIOS (that's even a beta) release that's available for it in the ASUS downloads section for that board. ![]() I haven't tested that theory yet as I really don't want to break my primary PC. There's even a registry key DWORD from MS that can be added to the registry to "bypass TPM and CPU check" but the articles that revealed it imply that at least TPM 1.2 is still required to install the OS. OK, so Windows 11 official public release is out now and has been for over a month. ![]()
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