What's up with this secure boot and tpm thing ?

[SladeDJWilson]

Hello,

 

Was watching Linus's video about Win 11.

I want to know about secure boot and tpm 2.0. Because I also got the "You're PC doesn't have the minimum req to run 11" using PC Health app.

What are those ?

How do I enable them ?

 

TY

[Boomwebsearch]

13 hours ago, SladeDJWilson said:

Hello,

 

Was watching Linus's video about Win 11.

I want to know about secure boot and tpm 2.0. Because I also got the "You're PC doesn't have the minimum req to run 11" using PC Health app.

What are those ?

How do I enable them ?

 

TY

 

TPM or Trusted Platform Module is a security processor and it helps protect sensitive digital info at a hardware level against malware. Since this is a physical chip inside your PC, it is either you have it or you don't (unless you purposefully disabled the TPM on your PC for some reason). Your system needs to support TPM 2.0 for compatibility with Windows 11. A lot of PCs are going to be stuck on Windows 10 still because of these new requirements that basically would need a complete computer replacement (at least the motherboard on newer computers) for OS compatibility.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

21 minutes ago, Boomwebsearch said:

 

TPM or Trusted Platform Module is a security processor and it helps protect sensitive digital info at a hardware level against malware. Since this is a physical chip inside your PC, it is either you have it or you don't (unless you purposefully disabled the TPM on your PC for some reason). Your system needs to support TPM 2.0 for compatibility with Windows 11. A lot of PCs are going to be stuck on Windows 10 still because of these new requirements that basically would need a complete computer replacement (at least the motherboard on newer computers) for OS compatibility.

To be fair, most off the shelf boards for platforms worth salvaging as far as I know do have connectors for an add in TPM module. Now, whether or not board manufacturers are willing to release these modules are another thing. I would suspect they'll be in high demand given the announcement and should be a relatively inexpensive upgrade. They go for about 20-40 bucks a pop but extremely scarce. 

 

So think of it as a 20-40 dollar upgrade. Most laptops made in the past few years should have TPM chips built in. Even HP Streams have one.

[theswweet]

I mentioned this in the thread about the video itself, but there's a misconception - you do *not* need Secure Boot enabled. In fact, on MS's own requirements they just say "Secure Boot capable". If you have a UEFI install and TPM enabled, you are good to go. I can confirm this myself.