Swapping TPM Module around?

[FatRakoon]

Possibly a stupid question, but hopefully a good one.

A few weeks ago, I kind of noticed that one of my Motherboards has a TPM Port. Now, that in ityself didnt do anything for me, but I also noticed that another one of my boards has a TPM Module that I can unplug.

I ignored these for a short while, and then, I simply took it out of the one board as it wanted me to upgrade to Windows 11, and then I thought... Can I use that Module in another board? It does fit, but would it be saafe to try it?

This is purely because my daughter is using the setup that has a port but not the module, and if it took the module, then it would upgrade automatically wouldnt it?

Just thinking?

 

[FatRakoon]

The TPM Module that I am talking about is a physical thing, that plugs onto the board. Sure some of my boards have a BIOS option to enable/disable, but on these particular boards, its a thing that simply plugs in and out.
What I have done, is installed Windows 11 onto one board that has it, however, is a fairly low end setup ( AMD A8-7800 ) and I have taken that thing out and it has NOT affected the install ( AFAIK? ) and it does physically fit into another board, but I have NOT powered the thing up, just in case???

I could absolutely simply put a funky install onto it, but I dont want to.

The ONLY PC that I really dont want Win 11 on, is my main PC and thats gone and updated behind my back and I am genuinnely annoyed cos its now slower than ever. Even Notepad takes a few seconds to load up, and my games are sometimes jerky.