FW 16 AI 300 - fTPM resets, wrong hardware change detection

[sefalkner]

Device Information

System Model or SKU

Please select one of the following

• Framework Laptop 12 (13th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Framework Laptop 13 (11th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Framework Laptop 13 (12th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Framework Laptop 13 (13th Gen Intel® Core™)
• Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)
• Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series)
• Framework Laptop 13 (Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 1)
• Framework Laptop 16 (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)
• Framework Laptop 16 (AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series)
• Framework Desktop (AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 PRO Series)

BIOS VERSION

3.04

DIY Edition information

Memory: Crucial 2x16Gb CT2K16G56C46S5
Storage: Samung Evo Plus 4Tb

Standalone Operation (Laptop Only)

Are you running your mainboard as a standalone device. Is standalone mode enabled in the BIOS?

• Yes
• No

Describe the bug

On boot, I got the message "Press Y to reset fTPM ...", suggesting there was a CPU hardware change and the TPM should be reset. But there was no hardware change.

For me, this happened on a boot after the PC was shut down for a while ( kind of related to #172 ). But, e.g., for u/SantaBarbaraProposer on reddit this seems to occur much more frequent:

https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1qti8t3/reset_ftpm_message_on_every_boot_framework_16/

A matter of time until some poor person gets locked out of their data by pressing yes.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Boot
2. See error

Screenshots

Operating System):

• OS/Distribution: Wndows 11

[aroman]

I ran into this when swapping the NVIDIA 5070 Graphics Module for the no-GPU Expansion Bay Shell.

Quite a scary situation as the default option on every boot seems to be: do you want to erase encryption keys and lose all access to your data?