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5.0 out of 5 starsTPM must be manually Enabled in BIOS - Windows 11 install demands it
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2021
Several notes: 1) Windows 11 demands that a TPM “Trusted Platform Module” exist, and this Gigabyte MoBo doesn’t have one built in. (It does have the pins for an add-in along the edge.) The TPM then must come from the CPU, which probably every Intel has had for at least five + years now. That Intel “Platform Trust Technology”, PTT, is Disabled by default in this MoBo’s settings, so you must change it to Enabled.
2) First MoBo was defective. Amazon accepted my replacement request without hesitation and I received the 2nd one in 48 hours! Using either memory slot B1 or B2 (with matching A1 & A2) caused complete nonresponsiveness. Fan would spin, but no video output, not even BIOS. A SINGLE memory module in either A1 or A2 would allow BIOS to work, but even though several connected SSDs were correctly identified in BIOS, none would be visible/bootable after tapping the F12 key as would otherwise be normal.
3) After assembling & powering up for the first time, be ready to wait maybe 15-20 seconds for the BIOS to display for the first time, possibly even restart itself automatically. Mine did that and I’ve never seen a MoBo (all mine have been Gigabytes, for 18 years) do that before. After that initial setup thing it did, all startups are fast as normal again.
