To enter the BIOS, you’ll need to restart your PC. The BIOS can also be used to calibrate and configure the RAM and PC fan speeds. So what is a BIOS? It’s your computer’s “basic input/output system,” and operates as firmware to jumpstart the PC’s hardware during the boot process.
As a result, Microsoft’s own director for OS security David Weston notes only CPUs from the last five to seven years will possess the security chip. The TPM 2.0 technology was released back in Oct. PC users with older machines are also out of luck. The extra steps are bound to confuse consumers, especially those who know little about computers, and have never entered their PC’s BIOS settings before. You’ll have to restart your PC and go into your machine’s BIOS settings to trigger it, which can require some digging to find the TPM function. However, the TPM chip isn’t always on by default. The technology is designed to securely store your login information on the machine.
On Thursday, Microsoft introduced Windows 11, and revealed the OS actually requires the PC to be installed with a relatively unknown security chip, called the Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM). To run Windows 11, you may need to tinker with some PC settings you rarely ever see.
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