Do you have experience with Asus laptops about durability?

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Was there a story
You cannot get fired for buying IBM…

I am not a fan of lenovo as i had a tablet from them which was very expensive and the screen went faulty at the end of the warranty could not return to supplier as they had closed, could not return to base as they did nit accept by post hand deliveries only and that was a 200 km trip, plus no promise of repair, tech support almost none …

But that was the french office

Replaced it with a Samsung which is much better.

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Thanks for the valuable feedback

In general is important be informed about a manufacturer for the current quality of its set of products (tablets, laptops, etc) and it by year. That’s why I created this thread from the beginning but specific for Asus. Each experience is valuable.

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It used to be dont buy a friday or monday car because quality at start or end is not the same…

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Recently I have been donated a 14 yrs old ASUS F3E laptop with Centrino T7700 CPU , 2GB RAM , 250GB HD(spinning) ,Windows 7 OS
After erasing the HD and re-formating ext 4 ,I installed Linux Mint 21.3

When starting the laptop I get :
0.4844014 tpm tpm0 Operation timed out
0.5043981 tpm tpm0 operation timed out
1.744651 ima error communicating to TPM chip
…
… 3times same
…
1.765701 ima error communicating to TPM chip

The above numbers show the time in seconds, hence 0.48 - 1.76 seconds.

After pressing Delete I get a stationary LM logo (after 20 seconds)
After pressing Delete again the startup continues and stops again,showing a black screen
Following pressing Delete again LM21.3 fully starts-up and works well ,be it that loading apps is slow ,because of the (old)HD

My question is : Is TPM chip plugged-in and hence removable or can it be disabled ?

I remember having read that to install Windows 11 a PC needs to have TMP 2.0 module (presumably hardware)

If TPM.0 module can be removed or disabled I intend replacing the HD by SSD and possibly replace the 2 RAM (1GB) modules by 2 RAM (2GB) modules.

Your advice re the above will be appreciated.

Frank in County Wicklow Ireland

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Hi Frank,
Before thinking about faulty hardware, you might check that it is not caused by missing drivers or firmware.
and
Are there any bios settings relevant to tpm? You may be able to turn it off.

Error messages dont always mean what they seem to indicate.

Regards
Neville

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I dont think the tpm has anything to do with this.

First thing to do us upgrade the memory 2gb is not enough minimum 4 gb

Or try a lighter weight of linux mint such as xfce . Every machine I have upgraded to mint when trying to run in such low memory spec has failed usually at start up, and if it does go it is just so slow.

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I think Paul might be right.
Messages can be misleading.

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One way of testing without commitment is to boot to a live usb of a xfce version see if everything runs fine.

Also use that to run a disk test incase it is a hard disk issue, being miss represented

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