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Does clearing CMOS clear fTPM?

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You can clear the cmos too and it will be fine.

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That’s basically my question. If I clear CMOS, does the fTPM get cleared as well?

 

What about a BIOS update? Would that also affect the fTPM

 

And would disabling the fTPM clear keys or is that only doable manually?

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You can update the bios just fine. You can turn ftpm off and be ok too. It will give you a choice of writing new keys or keeping old keys when change cpus, if you keep the old ftpm gets disabled iirc.

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8 hours ago, freeagent said:

You can update the bios just fine. You can turn ftpm off and be ok too. It will give you a choice of writing new keys or keeping old keys when change cpus, if you keep the old ftpm gets disabled iirc.

So as long as I don’t intentionally clear the fTPM it’ll stay?

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You can clear the cmos too and it will be fine.

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Awesome! Thanks for the info. That’s the only thing that had me worried about setting up my PC for Windows 11 since I already lost access to 1 OS after playing with the settings and clearing them once…

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