Precision T5600 TPM 2.0 support?

Question

With the announcement of Windows 11 and the requirement for TPM 2.0, is there any possibility of a TPM 2.0 upgrade to the T5600 series? My main workstation is a Precision T5600 with dual Xeon E5-2665's, 64GB RAM, Nvidia Quadro M2000 with three Dell P2414H monitors, a 250GB SSD boot drive and a 2TB SATA drive. I'm running Windows 10 21H1 Enterprise and don't see any reason to upgrade this as its perfect for what I need.

Windows is now a 'service' so in theory it will be a forced upgrade - albeit a few years down the road - that won't be possible due to no TPM 2.0. The T5600 has TMP 1.2 only. Is it possible a TPM 2.0 upgrade will be available for the T5600?

Andy

speedstep · Accepted Answer

Bypass TPM and SecureBoot when installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware:

https://twitter.com/cadenzza_/status/1408866403743109125

During installation press Shift+F10, open registry and create key Lab
Config under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup

There add:
"BypassTPMCheck"=dword:00000001
"BypassSecureBootCheck"=dword:00000001

speedstep · Accepted Answer

So there are 2 ways.

At that screen, you need to press Shift+F10 to open Command Prompt window and modify the registry.

In Command Prompt, you need to run regedit.exe

and create a new key “LabConfig”

under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup.

In the “LabConfig” key, create two new entries:

BypassTPMCheck=dword:00000001
BypassSecureBootCheck=dword:00000001

Save the changes and compatibility errors will disappear.

**********************************************************************

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\LabConfig]
“BypassTPMCheck”=dword:00000001
“BypassSecureBootCheck”=dword:00000001

*****************************************************************************************

Method 2: Create your own installation media

The second method involves modifying the ISO file.

If you want to upgrade the operating system by running the setup.exe
directly from Windows 11 media image, there’s another simple workaround.

You need to replace the appraiserres.dll in the sources folder on your installation media with the version of that file from a Windows 10 ISO.
Once done, you need to recreate the ISO image using a third-party tool like Rufus or AnyBurn, and run the setup file again.

speedstep · Accepted Answer

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\LabConfig]'BypassTPMCheck'=dword:00000001'BypassSecureBootCheck'=dword:00000001

Mary G · Answer

You will not be forced to install it. After 2025 end of support it will not receive updates. There are users still running windows XP. It cannot run on your old model anyway. The current list of tested models is here -

Dell computers tested for upgrade to Windows 11 | Dell US

mazzinia_ · Answer

Reading the document on the ms site with the requirements ( cpus ) for win11, TPM 2.0 is just a minor issue.

The real issue is that they mention only 8th gen cpus onward, as a requirement. To add to this , xeons W gen 1 are not on that list, only Gen 2 ( while xeons gen 1 , aka silver gold etc, are supported ) if I read it correctly.

So, your current computer would be prevented to update due to the cpu, not just the tpm. I would point out that this is just an initial announcement, and I think a lot of big places will not be happy that by example xeons v4 and v3 are unsupported .... so I expect some changes due to external pressures.

This said, I don't think it would extend back to v0

Again this said, I bet there will be some workarounds to install it anyway... there's always someone trying hacks.

Anyway, as Mary G wrote, win10 will live on until 2025 ( and likely longer in the LTSC version )

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