Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Enabling TPM on HP Zbook and Elitebook laptops

Ran into an issue this Am with trying to enable TPM or Trusted Platform Module on a new Zbook from HP.  If you hit ESC then BIOS Options, then Security you will see that TPM, User Management and a few other options are greyed out.  Turns out you must set a BIOS Password in order to change those options.

Stupid move HP but whatever I guess, at least now I can encrypt the drive.

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  1. Here it is almost 2 years later and just wanted to let you know that your post saved my bacon. HP Tech support did not seem to know this. I notice on newer ZBook G3 and Elitebook G3 models that setting the BIOS Admin password is not a requirement any longer -- you have access to the TPM by default.

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    1. Thank you so much Randal. Yeah I recall having a very hard time figuring this out, but the solution was one of those last-ditch-this-shouldn't-work-but-Ill-try-it-anyways sort of things. I do appreciate your letting me know I helped you out.

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  2. You helped me as well! Thanks!!

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  3. How INCREDIBLY obscure... THANK YOU for figuring this out!

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  4. Thank you for saving my ass in 2020 :)

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