upgrading tpm 1.2 to 2.0

[adihant]

hi i'm new to hp and wondered if it was possible to upgrade my tpm to 2.0 from 1.2 for windows 11. I have looked at the motherboard and cannot see a tpm header to install a chip so I am hoping software upgrade is the way to go. Any help is appreciated, thanks

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Below is the list of PC's supported for the TPM 1.2 to 2.0 firmware upgrade...

HP Desktops, Notebooks, and Workstations - HP TPM Configuration Utility With Windows 10 Anniversary ...

Your PC's processor is not supported for W11.  Microsoft drew the processor cutoff at the Intel 8th gen core processors.

If you want to try out W11 on your PC, it is relatively easy to do...

I would make a system image of your current W10 installation prior to updating to W11, so you can easily reinstall W10 in the future.  I used the free Macrium Reflect software to do that, under the Backup at Home section. 

Along with the system image, make sure you create the bootable DVD or USB rescue drive you boot from to access the system image stored on your portable hard drive.

Macrium Software | Reflect Free Edition

First make this registry change...

https://www.hellpc.net/how-to-bypass-tpm-and-cpu-requirements-windows-11-upgrade-unsupported-pc/

Then download the Windows 11 ISO file (3rd option), not the W11 installation assistant.

Download Windows 11 (microsoft.com)

Then open the file with Windows explorer, and click on the setup application.

To do that, right click on the ISO file and select 'Open With' and select Windows Explorer.

See the screenshot...this is what you will see when you open the file with Windows Explorer.

After you double click to run the setup application, you will get this window, and you should be able to upgrade to W11.

You just have to accept the agreement that comes up during the upgrade process about your PC not meeting the requirements, etc., etc..

My unsupported W11 PC's got all of the W11 updates. 

I have upgraded 7 of them to W11, and they seem to run a little better on W11 than they did on W10.

However, I don't know how long they will continue to get all of the updates, or what will happen when the new build of W11 comes out next year in October.

If for some reason that doesn't work, you can try this instead...

Use Rufus and make a bootable USB installer with the ISO file you downloaded.

There is a new option to create an installer that is supposed to bypass the checks.  After you make the installer, open the file contents like you did previously and double click on the setup application and see if that works.

Here is the link to the Rufus download.  You want the version 3.17 portable.

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Here is a screenshot for how you should let Rufus set up the ISO file...

If that doesn't work either, you can use the bootable USB installation flash drive you created with Rufus and clean install W11.

That will work.

[adihant]

Thanks for the detailed reply 😃, sorry I didn't reply sooner, I did not get notified of the reply. I managed to get W11 working and am happy with it. I was expecting to buy a tpm chip but cannot find anywhere to fit it on the motherboard 🙄

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.