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TPMAPI_E_INTERNAL_ERROR
TPMAPI_E_INTERNAL_ERROR is a Windows TPM API result. It indicates that the software layer detected a condition it could not map to a more specific caller or TPM error.
What to check for TPMAPI_E_INTERNAL_ERROR
- Preserve the complete HRESULT, API call, Windows version, and immediately preceding TPM-related errors.
- Retry only after confirming that the TPM, TBS service, and caller state are healthy.
- Install current Windows and firmware updates when the error is reproducible across clean requests.
Microsoft documentation for TPMAPI error codes
Diagnostic interpretation
This result has the HRESULT value 0x80290107. AllStat records the condition as “An internal error was detected.”.
Evidence to capture
- Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions this result or the tpmapi / internal operation.
- Preserve the first failure in the call chain; a later HRESULT can describe cleanup rather than the original tpmapi / internal condition.
Retry and recovery
Retry only after the condition responsible for TPMAPI_E_INTERNAL_ERROR has changed; repeat the same operation and confirm that the original failure boundary has moved or disappeared.
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