Windows 10: TPM

Do my HP 245 G5 notebook - AMD A6-7310 APU with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics 2.00 GHz has a TPM? I am not sure about it. It does not have TPM option in the BIOS but when I look in device manager under security devices I see, "PSP 1.0". Actually the basis of my confusion is that the HP notebook specification page shows it has 'fw TPM 2.0 under the software and security menu HP 245 G5 Notebook PC Specifications HP® Customer Support but I don't find any option to enable it. I have asked the same question in the hp community, but no-one has replied till now.

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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.

 

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

 

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).