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old threadrippers and win11 upgrade?

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Jens:
We have a couple of 3990x workstations at the office, and IT wants us to change them as they do not meet requirements to update to win11. Primarily due to not supporting TPM 2.0 protocol (what ever that is).

I googled a bit and found a way to enable this in the BIOS. So in theory, there should no longer be an issue in "upgrading" to win 11. I'd rather stay with win 10, but due to company policy we have to update one way or the other.

Now to my question: Has anyone of you guys been in a similar situation and are now running win11 without issues on older threadripper CPUs?

arqrenderz:
You can run Win 11 bypassing the tpm requirements  https://www.makeuseof.com/rufus-bypass-tpm-secure-boot-requirements-windows-11/
You can buy a tpm module for 10 euros if you want to keep it.
IT departments are a bad joke most of the times.
If the office doesnt know what to do with too much cash on hand it could raise salarys, buy new hardware, hire better IT or just pocket it ;)

Vuk:
I would suggest not upgrading. One of my old Threadrippers has upgraded to win 11 overnight and after that, I just couldn't fix the network adapter not working issue.

Sadly there are no stable drivers or working drivers for the integrated LAN card on the board for WIN 11. I don't remember if it was Realtek or Intel but I just rerolled back to win 10.

alexyork:
We have a bunch of 3990x and they're all compatible out of the box with win11 if we wanted, but you might just need to enable the bios' TPM and/or update the motherboard BIOS version for this to be visible.

Nejc Kilar:
Yup, can confirm. Just flip the TPM setting to firmware (or anything but disabled) and the Zen 2 / Zen 3 Threadrippers work with Windows 11 :)

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