George10345

After I enabled security device support I saved using f10 so that any changes I made would be saved. Then after I rebooted I entered the BIOS and tried to find the "tpm state" option. There is no such option on the screen, but there should be. The only option shown on the screen is the "security device support : enabled" option, which is set in freaking enabled so that I can change the tpm state option, but it doesnt want to work properly.

Still not working... I really hope Gigabyte has an answer to my problem. There really is not that much stuff online about these kinds of problems... It is like searching in the dark... I wonder if I upgrade to Windows 10, will my problem go away?

Your reasoning is correct I think. But the problem is that my computer simply does not let me to enable it twice in BIOS, and it should. Computers are weird.

I have come across this one. The poor guy has the same problem as me. I feel like this: https://xkcd.com/979/ The thing is, that reply is a tutorial to initialize your TPM, "own" it and then instruct Windows to use it with bitlocker. It does not answer the question "Windows cannot recognize the TPM in my computer, even though the TPM support is enabled in BIOS", which both the poor guy Zeppos and I have... It implies that Windows can "see" the TPM. But my computer cannot see the TPM, even though it is enabled in the BIOS. If my computer could see the TPM it would display it under Device Manager, which it does not You cannot even begin to initialize your TPM if Windows does not recognize it. It simply does not let you do that. While your answer may state things that are correct, it is the answer to a different problem. Anyway, thank you for your time!

@jools The thing is, I am on the latest BIOS...

I have been googling for 5 hours and nothing. So I figured I would ask here and see if I find any answers. See the attached images. It will help understand my issue. If anyone with a Gigabyte mobo and a TPM is here and would like to help me, it would mean a lot to me. I want to use bitlocker on my Windows 7 Ultimate machine, so I bought a TPM for my motherboard. I do not want to use Bitlocker without a TPM because that would require a USB drive to be plugged it every time I turn on my PC, and I am going to lose it for sure. So I bought a TPM from Gigabyte ( GC TPM 2.0 ) and I have been trying to get it to work with my motherboard ever since ( Z97 Gaming 7 ). I should state that I have the latest BIOS Version. My motherboard has a TPM header and I plugged the GC TPM 2 in there. I went into BIOS -> Peripherals -> Trusted Computing -> Security Device Support and set this option to "enabled". When I rebooted the computer, I went into BIOS again and when I visited the Trusted Computing Section of the BIOS, instead of letting me set further options for my TPM (like enabling it so that the OS can "see" it ), it only shows the Security Device Support option and under current status it displays "Support disabled" or something like that. I cannot even set the TPM State to "enabled" in order for windows to recognize it. I have tried Loading Optimized defaults, I have tried clearing the CMOS. Nothing works. The motherboard knows it has a TPM connected to it (when i take it out the Trusted Computing section dissappears) but it only lets me change the Security Device Support option to "enabled or disabled" and nothing more, as it should. What's happening?