Preparing Automatic Repair Boot Loop

[PaPaulWul]

I fought for hours, over a few days on this.  Downloaded/made 2 boot repair sticks (Linux based, one being a Norton), had to set to Legacy mode to boot.  But neither could 'repair' the problem. After sifting through countless posts on this, all mostly saying the same thing above to try, stumbled on 1 that said for a boot/boot from Win10 stick, TPM must be disabled, which obviously worked.

Did you notice the Win10 upgrade screen has advertising about getting ready to upgrade to Win11, which TPM is required??  Don't know long that's been there.  So, did this last Win10 update turn on the TPM in BIOS?  Or does this update now look at the TPM state, and if enabled want to look the TPM setup/contents (like Win11 needs)?  Or perhaps, the current running BIOS needs a firmware upgrade for this now (my friends' is running F45, sort of old)?  Or maybe a combination of a couple of these.

By the way, the AMD CPU on this model laptop is not supported by Microsoft, though you still might be able to upgrade to Win11.  Win10 support ends this October, though you can buy an extra year of support, for $30, so you can still get fixes and security patches. For now, Win11 requires a TPM PC.  Time will tell if they will bend the rules on this next year, because you're talking about replacing millions of older PCs running Win10 that have no TPM chip.

I used to work for EMC/Dell, in the large enterprise area, but have been working on PCs since the 80s with MS-DOS 2.11