Morning gents. I’m way behind the times in hardware, software and brains.
I’m looking in to upgrading my gaming pc to win11. It seems I need to do 2 things in the bios before I can install
1 - uefi bootable. I found this in the bios.
2 - make TPM version 2.0
I found uefi ok but can’t find tpm anywhere. I updated to the latest bios while I was mucking around but the version was from 2016 so I’m thinking it may not support tpm and therefore not support windows 11 either?
Motherboard is H97M-G43 from msi.
Any thoughts? Or is it just too old for it?
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Re: Windows 7 to 11
Likely won't have TPM at that age I would guess, looking online I can't see it in specs anywhere.
I believe there was a way to trick Win 11 to install without it. But probably recommend you just upgrade to win 10 for now. No big benefit in forcing a win 11.
I believe there was a way to trick Win 11 to install without it. But probably recommend you just upgrade to win 10 for now. No big benefit in forcing a win 11.
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Re: Windows 7 to 11
Yeah TPM is a hardware bit, not just a firmware thing so I've found.
at the least, you could upgrade just your motherboard? That may mean a new CPU depending on what's available...
at the least, you could upgrade just your motherboard? That may mean a new CPU depending on what's available...
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Re: Windows 7 to 11
I forced 11 onto my old hardware. Works fine, however games that use TPM for anticheat and antipiracy won't work. I pretty much only play a handful of games these days, but games like Valorant won't work without TPM.
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Thanks guys
I didn’t realise it was a win11 thing. Might just go with win10 for now. Or might be time for an upgrade anyway. Was a new machine in 2015 so it has lasted well.
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I didn’t realise it was a win11 thing. Might just go with win10 for now. Or might be time for an upgrade anyway. Was a new machine in 2015 so it has lasted well.
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