Windows 10: Alert! TPM device is not detected.

This picture is collected from Reddit, but I have a similar problem. I updated my firmware from the Dell support assist app. I should mention that my power IC was water damaged, so I fixed my laptop from a local mechanic. My laptop model was Dell Inspiron 15 but after that everything identified my laptop as Dell Inspiron 14. I tried everything showed at Dell support but that lead me to nothing. They told me, type <tpm.msc> but that did not work. They told me. open windows PowerShell and type <disable-tpmautoprovisioning> but that did not show, what had shown them in their video. P

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Windows 10 devices now requires hardware encryption/TPM

Stolen from Sweclockers, but it's in swedish.

So from now on devices (OEM built) needs a TPM module. Relevant bit:

Pretty interesting, but there's tons of questions I guess. I don't actually now anything about how TPM works, just that it's hardware, meaning the key is stored in a physical chip and that the decryption has to run through this chip. But I have no idea how let's say biometrics is tied to this. Or what the implications will be, or what exactly is encrypted. The entire storage or just the log in details as such?

 

TPM update

Don't know if this is the right place for this thread but whatever, laptop informed me that " a firmware update is needed for you security processor (TPM)," now, i looked up what to do and from a microsoft support thing, the last step says to clear the tpm. it has a warning saying to back up my data, i would like to know what clearing the tpm does, and what measures i need to take to make sure nothing goes wrong.

 

Need help on whether to clear TPM on not

It's clear as mud. As far as I can tell, it's specific to Windows, not necessarily activated programs like MacAfee, games, etc etc etc. MS Office, I have no idea.

Here's a lengthy doc on it: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...initialize-and-configure-ownership-of-the-tpm