Hello I can't seem to get my TPM to work properly i have updated my bios to the most recent version, I have TPM enabled in the bios and i have cleared the TPM from windows. and now all i get is event errors 1801 and 1040 and TPM.msc wont let me prepare the TPM. I am literally at a loss i have no...
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