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@Colif exactly. I have Secure Boot function but not fTPM on BIOS

@CaedenV thanks for your suggestion however unfortunately it is not possible, let's see what Zotac have done on this 2020 product with Ryzen 3200U that is on win11 compatibility list...I bought it six months ago, they launched it on the market jan/feb 2020😡:

BIOS
ZBOX CA621 nano BIOS and Update Utility
Version 2K201204
- Added IOMMU (AMD I/O Virtualization) selection in CMOS Setup
Version 2K200506
- Removed TPM function (not supported)
- Hidden unused CMOS Setup items
Version 2K200323
- Fixed Network Stack Default Settings not loaded after CMOS Clear
Version 2K191115
- Initial Mass Production Release
OS: Windows 10 32-bit
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its possible a bios update can enable to function. They may do that in the next few months, it seems if you bought a new PC last year it should support pretty much anything.

Win 11 is just over 48 hours announced, expect hardware makers will need to adjust as well.
 
@Colif exactly. I have Secure Boot function but not fTPM on BIOS

@CaedenV thanks for your suggestion however unfortunately it is not possible, let's see what Zotac have done on this 2020 product with Ryzen 3200U that is on win11 compatibility list...I bought it six months ago, they launched it on the market jan/feb 2020😡:

BIOS
ZBOX CA621 nano BIOS and Update Utility
Version 2K201204
- Added IOMMU (AMD I/O Virtualization) selection in CMOS Setup
Version 2K200506
- Removed TPM function (not supported)
- Hidden unused CMOS Setup items
Version 2K200323
- Fixed Network Stack Default Settings not loaded after CMOS Clear
Version 2K191115
- Initial Mass Production Release
OS: Windows 10 32-bit
DOWNLOAD
Sounds like a series of angry emails to Zotac lol
Oh man, sorry for your luck there. With it being so new I don't suppose there is a return/replacement option?
 
@CaedenV for sure I'm against them since they don't want to do something about this😀. It's not my main system anyway...

however my concerns are regarding the requirement of the TPM in general. I use the example of this pc because it shows that it's not a problem that concerns only some "obsolete" PCs but it is a different problem. When you try to force to make a technology mandatory without a real reason (or maybe there is but it is not our security), cases like this also happen.
 
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So after running the useless PC Health Check that tells you, no you cant have Windows 11, no reason given (what team produced such a stupid piece of software?) the new update today at least had the good grace to tell me its Secure Boot unsupported. So after spending all day trying to figure this out I found I had to convert my boot SSD to GPT from MBR in order to UEFI boot. And now the wrenched PC Health Check program tells me my perfectly good i7-6700 processor is unacceptable - exactly as reported by Toms' Hardware.

For heavens sake Microsoft what are you doing? Clearly you no longer want lots of people as customers. This is ridiculous and outrageous. And I wont even start on the debacle of forcing people to learn what TPM is and having to enable it and lets just dump the poor plebians with older computers who shall remain bound to Windows 10 not forever even, but only until 2025.

Microsoft would do well to take heed of the public comments on this current stupidity. Just when I thought Microsoft were the Good Guys again. No such thing.
 
I think a lot of you that are running the tool, and freaking out is a little premature. Motherboard vendors will be working on bios updates for Windows 11. They have 6 months to get them done, so just keep checking with your board/laptop manufacturer.
 
The post I submitted was deleted - weird. I posted about my old T7500 (Dell) - just discovered it has TPM - I enabled that - but it is only 1.2. Windows 11 is complaining about Secure Boot - like others have mentioned - guess my Dell is just old for this shi??. I'll be sticking with Windows 10 for now.
 
Motherboard vendors will be working on bios updates for Windows 11. They have 6 months to get them done, so just keep checking with your board/laptop manufacturer.

have you read what I wrote 5 posts above yours? some even removed TPM...

Are you sure things will go your way? don't you think instead it will be easier that in all cases where there are problems to solve they will only bring out slightly different new products "windows 11 compatible" and those who bought the "old" product...

Do you think that, for example, I haven't already contacted technical support? answer..."we have removed it because the product does not support the TPM"
Clearly it's impossible, they must have done something wrong but...

(2020 year system with ryzen 3000 processor, so fTPM 2.0 inside the CPU then in the Win11 compatibility list)
 
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have you thought to see if you can flash bios back to the version before they disabled it to see if it works then?
they can't force bios updates so its a good reason not to upgrade them if they remove features you need.
just a thought :)
 
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they have removed from the site all versions apart from the last (unfortunately a practice that tends to occur more and more often...).

I tried to retrieve them online but they were not "archived" anywhere. Unfortunately the product was launched in January 2020, they removed the TPM with an update of May 2020, I bought it in November 2020 and so it was already updated just to that version. I should find someone who bought it between January and May and who kept the file... I see it hard.

Thank you anyway for the suggestion:)
 
the sordid history of who knew what about win 11 requirements in hardware would make for a good book in a few years. Microsoft made tpm requirement in oem pc starting win 10, but who knew it would be essential in win 11, thats the question.

Did these companies knowlingly turn off something that would be needed the next year. We may never know.

I hope something happens in your favour as a 7 month old PC should be new enough.
 
yes, you are right everyone would have been careful, but on the other hand who activated it? At most the Secure Boot, but the TPM...

The most absurd thing is that mine is an OEM system, it's not a motherboard.

It is a ZBOX nano pc from Zotac...so OEM. That's what I tried to explain. The only think that now we know better is that after July 2016 the TPM 2.0 was to be an essential requirement in the new systems introduced as "compatible windows 10" as stated in the MS agreement published for windows 10. In my case this product was launched on market 3.5 years later, in 2020...and now the situation is this.

I'm sure other cases like mine will appear very soon especially in small PCs, small laptops... perhaps many still do not know
 
Only a very tiny percentage of the population know :

  1. what windows is
  2. what version they have
  3. that windows 11 has been announced
  4. what their pc has inside
  5. have even looked at the windows 11 website and downloaded the tool.
  6. have tested their pc to see if it works on win 11
  7. Have done anything to fix it

In that order of running.

The people who know what win 11 is and have tried to see if PC works is tiny fraction of users... so yeah, most have no idea if it will work or even what it is :)