Silence Is Golden
Nov. 15th, 2024 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperWhen I got done with work today, I said to heck with it, powered down my home office computer, and popped it open on my desk. First, I uninstalled the mirrored hard drives that have been sitting in there doing nothing but spinning for several years since I installed an M2 drive as the boot drive. It's only a one TB drive, but it's still about 20% short of full, so I'm ok there. And it is regularly backed up to the NAS.
(Oops. Got to download the security updates for the NAS. Hang on a minute...)
Ok, that's better. Anyway, the old drives were seriously warm, so just as well to stop using them as a space heater. And the computer is *much* quieter.
Once I got the drives out, I then set out to install the TPM support module on the header on the motherboard. Eventually, I got it attached to the header, rebooted the machine, and enabled it.
This leaves me *one* qualification short of being able to install Windows 11 on the box: my CPU is too old. Sadly, I cannot install a new enough CPU on this motherboard to be able to install Windows 11 directly.
(Installing Windows 11 is only an issue because Microsoft is dropping support for Windows 10 in about a year. This is not yet urgent, but is keeping my attention.)
According to reports, there are ways to bypass the CPU check, although it's not clear if they will work on an upgrade install. It is now time to experiment.
Carefully.
(Oops. Got to download the security updates for the NAS. Hang on a minute...)
Ok, that's better. Anyway, the old drives were seriously warm, so just as well to stop using them as a space heater. And the computer is *much* quieter.
Once I got the drives out, I then set out to install the TPM support module on the header on the motherboard. Eventually, I got it attached to the header, rebooted the machine, and enabled it.
This leaves me *one* qualification short of being able to install Windows 11 on the box: my CPU is too old. Sadly, I cannot install a new enough CPU on this motherboard to be able to install Windows 11 directly.
(Installing Windows 11 is only an issue because Microsoft is dropping support for Windows 10 in about a year. This is not yet urgent, but is keeping my attention.)
According to reports, there are ways to bypass the CPU check, although it's not clear if they will work on an upgrade install. It is now time to experiment.
Carefully.