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When I power on the computer it shows the BIOS image with F2 or DEL but immediately goes to this message and I need help choosing what to do

"We detected a new processor, which will change the data/structure of the storage space for firmware TPM. If you did not apply this TPM function, please press Y to continue, otherwise please follow instruction below: Press Y to reset fTPM, if you have BitLocker or encryption enabled, the system will not boot without a recovery key. Press N to keep previous fTPM record and continue system boot, fTPM will NOT enable in the new processor. You can swap back to the old processor to recover TPM related keys and data."

This post was edited by Defensive on Feb 12 2023 10:54pm

If you don't have Bitlocker encrypted system, you can ignore this message.

If you have an Bitlocker encrypted system with TPM you need the recovery key every time the system state changes which results in a blocked TPM. If Bitlocker uses TPM for securing the encryption key in such a case the key becomes inaccessible. The recovery key is a password that unlocks a special alternative TPM independent encryption key and allows you to boot in such a case.

In your case, probably press "N".

Hope this helps.

Theres not even a OS on the system yet Im confused because I only turned it on to get to the bios so I can see and change XMP so 3600mhz ram but I can't get there without answering this

This post was edited by Defensive on Feb 13 2023 12:20pm

Your the only one saying to press N I posted on a computer building community on facebook and ya all them said Y.

Yikes I'm going to tech store today to see their opinion also just dont wanna somehow manage to brick anything

If you have bit locker/encryption enabled press N.
if you don't have bit locker/encryption press Y.

And either option wouldn't "brick it". It's a security system setting.

This post was edited by Candyzcanes on Feb 13 2023 12:47pm

all I know is you need tpm 2.0 for windows 11