Permanent VT-enabling mod for ACER 5315

Could work for Aspire 5315, 5320, 5715Z, 5720, 7320, and 7720 that have the correct CPU installed.

This may have been reported elsewhere - just thought I'd share that it works for me.
My Acer 5315 has had the usual Core2Duo T8300 mod, with additional RAM, so was annoying not to be able to run XP mode on Windows 7.
Until I came across this thread:

http://marcansoft.com/blog/2009/06/enabling-intel-vt-on-the-aspire-8930g/

I used my Ubuntu install to try to dump my BIOS initially, and came into problems, so found another way of doing this in Windows, using HWDirect. This is important, as the mod has to be done on a dump of your BIOS, rather than the update file you can download from Acer - so I updated to 1.45 before I did this.

Then, run the vtenable.py python script on your dumped BIOS file - near to the bottom of the page a user called MaxL has uploaded his version for the 1.45 BIOS. This is done in Ubuntu, or whatever Linux distro you're using.

Finally, and this is the risky part - proceed at caution, rename the file to CL50145A.fd, and copy it back into the InsydeFlash utility folder in Windows. Flash it back.
You'll notice that all the settings you had before are still there, unchanged, just that VT is now enabled!

This does involve Linux, but IMHO it's a superior mod to those which involve a USB key at boot, as it is Permanent - only thing that could kill it is resetting your BIOS settings, or flashing your BIOS.

Cheers,
Pete