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Support for 6th gen Intel Core i7 machines
Win 11 dev's - I currently have a Dell Inspiron 15 7559. My machine is from the 2016-2017 era and I purchased it with Windows 10 preinstalled in 2018. I would love to hear that this machine would c...
I believe the main issue here lies in the TPM (Trusted Platform Module).
"Trusted Platform Module (TPM 2.0) - TPM 2.0 is a microcontroller that stores keys, passwords, and digital certificates. A discrete TPM 2.0 also supports Intel® vPro™ Technology and Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT)."
6th gen Intel chips (like yours and mine) do not have the TPM 2.0 hardware inside the cpu. TPM 2.0 hardware started with the 7th generation chips.
So while this may seem like a software issue, it is in fact a hardware problem with the security microcontroller in both our processors.
this cannot be true information because my lenovo yoga 510 is i7 6500u and is fully supported with tpm apart from it being 6th genDevice name DESKTOP-
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.60 GHz
Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.86 GB usable)
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System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
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