Windows 10: TPM disabling after restart

The subject says it all. My ASUS bios will allow me to enable TPM, save changes, and boot into Windows. However, after shutting down for the night or other reason, the next time the machine is started the TPM is again disabled.

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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.

 

TPM support

I couldn't find "TPM" or "Trusted Platform Module" listed in any BIOS setting on 2 of my laptops. Got the mobo ID from system specs and did a bit of searching ... ah, there it is, not actually called that exactly, but same thing, and was disabled. Enabled ... booted up, ran tpm.msc. Bingo! Alive and well.

Your search engine will be your friend (one of mine even had a YouTube step-by-step how to access the BIOS, what to look for, etc).

 

TPM

Press Windows key + R

open TPM management by enteringtpm.msc in the Run window.

Hit Enter

In the right-hand pane, click on Clear TPM and wait for Windows to restart automatically.

After restarting, open BIOS settings (UEFI in my case).

Again clear the TPM from the BIOS settings. It may be listed under Security tab.

Save the changes and exit the BIOS.