I recently had a laptop that supposably had a TPM, although the BIOS clearly stated it was enabled Windows 7 was unable to see this. So I decided to see whether I could identify the TPM information via a Debian live CD instead:
sudo -s
We will enable the revelent modules:
modprobe tpm_bios
modprobe tpm
modprobe tpm_tis force=1 interrupts=0
Install the relevent packages:
apt-get install tpm-tools trousers
And finally we run the following command to return TPM version, vendor ID etc.:
sudo tpm_vers...