Is my Device supported for TPM Upgrade?

[vivekd005]

My System Model is 'HP EliteBook 840 G1'. I checked with the 'tpm.msc' tool and it says my Device supports TMP 1.2. Is there any way for my device to upgrade to TPM 2.0?? I found this link https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c05381064 where my Model is not mentioned. Is there any other way(virtual) which I'm not aware of?

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

If your notebook is not on the list you posted, the TPM 1.2 hardware is too old to support the upgrade.

If you are wanting to know about this because of W11, your notebook's processor is also not supported.

Intel notebooks need to have 8th gen core processors or newer.

There are ways to install W11 on your notebook...possibly by an in-place upgrade, and definitely via a clean install.

If you are interested in trying out W11, let me know and I will give you the information to do so.

I'm running W11 Pro on a HP 350 G1 with an Intel i3-4005U processor, no TPM at all, and it works fine.

Just know that we don't know how long Microsoft will allow us to run W11 on unsupported platforms.

[vivekd005]

Yup, the only reason of upgrading TMP is for WIndows 11.  I'm ready to do a clean install, please share how to do that?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

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)

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 W11 hardware checks. 

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

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

See this image link for how to set up the Rufus tool to bypass the W11 hardware checks...

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/296479i080A4C679280E055/image-size/large/is-...

Now, before you try and clean install W11, see if you can get the in-place upgrade by opening the W11 USB installer Rufus created, and click on the setup application to launch the upgrade.

I'm thinking that since your notebook has a TPM, W11 may let you do an in-place upgrade if you want.

If you get the 'This PC is not supported' window, then you will have to clean install W11.

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

I have upgraded 8 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.

[vivekd005]

Thanks, I'll give this a try.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.