If you have an ASUS motherboard bought in the last few years now it has a BIOS update that guarantees its compatibility with Windows 11.
The Windows 11 release it is coming, and the chaos it has caused is enormous. A chaos favored by the lightness of PC manufacturers when it comes to following the nomenclature.
By now everyone knows that Windows 11 requires PCs to have a TPM 2.0 chip. If you are not sure that your computer has it, here we tell you how to check it in three seconds, without installing anything.
All PCs sold in recent years have this chip. The problem is that in most it is not activated, and when you are going to activate it in the BIOS, has a completely different name, and you can’t find it.
It is what happens in ASUS boards, where the TPM chip is called in your BIOS completely differently: PTT. That’s why many people who go to activate it, will not find it.
To avoid this problem, ASUS has just updated almost a hundred BIOS of almost all motherboards that he has put up for sale in recent years, to make them compatible with Windows 11.
These new BIOSes don’t do magic: if your motherboard doesn’t have the TPM 2.0 chip, it can’t be added with a BIOS update. You will have to buy a TPM chip compatible with your board, which it costs about 20 euros, and insert it into it.
What this BIOS update does is, quite simply, activate the TPM 2.0 chip automatically, if not activated, to make them compatible with Windows 11 without the need for the user to do anything else.
In fact in your support page ASUS clarifies that you can use either of the two options: either update the BIOS, or activate the TPM chip manually.
It is safer to do it manually than to update the BIOS, because there is always a risk that something will fail, and the BIOS will be corrupted.
To do it manually, follow these steps:
- Press the Del or Del key when the ASUS or ROG logo appears, when turning on the PC
- Already in the BIOS enter Advanced, and in PCH-FW configuration
- In section PTT, choose the option Activated or Enabled
- Press F10 to save the changes and restart the PC
If you still don’t dare to touch the BIOS, you can update it with the new version, and the chip will be activated automatically.
On this website you have the list with the dozens of updated ASUS motherboards, which are already compatible with Windows 11.