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    G1S enable VT in BIOS?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by kojiro, Aug 20, 2007.

  1. kojiro

    kojiro Notebook Guru

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    Our CPU supports VT, but it's not enabled by default and the option is not available in the BIOS. With VT not enabled, vmware server is much slower and xen won't even run.

    Does anyone know if there's another way to enable VT?
     
    kojiro, Aug 20, 2007
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  2. kojiro

    kojiro Notebook Guru

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    Here's what I got from support:

    Which is BS. Other manufacturers are including the option including Dell, Acer and so on... Nothing I can do I guess.
     
    kojiro, Aug 21, 2007
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    df3n5 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Did the support guy actually say "thx"? Lazy.

    Pardon my ignorance but what is VT?
     
    df3n5, Aug 21, 2007
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    irablumberg Notebook Consultant

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    VT = Intel's internal code name Vanderpool Technology. It allows and supports virtualization so you can run two different operating systems simultaneously and each is unaware of and unaffected by the other.

    Ira
     
    irablumberg, Aug 21, 2007
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    Cool, maybe if you made a custom BIOS you could do it. Although that would be delving into dangerous territory. That's a shame that they wouldn't even give the option in an updated BIOS or something.
     
    df3n5, Aug 21, 2007
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    kojiro Notebook Guru

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    I don't think it's fair to not give the customer the choice of enabling it. And the "stability" issues are BS.
     
    kojiro, Aug 21, 2007
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    no its actually not BS. If they feel enabling it could affect the performance/stability in a very negative way, its their product to sell and they can rightfully chose to disable it. Remember, it's their service team that will have to fix it should anything go wrong because of it.
     
    jewbilee, Aug 21, 2007
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    I think is BS again...

    why VT is widely advertised when we don't have the possibility to use it in the first place?
    and how they expect to solve any stability issue if nobody is testing it anyway?? (test in a controlled environment really don't count... VT is 3 years old already..)
     
    thunderforce, Jul 16, 2008
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    I just spoke to 3 representatives... and the score is:

    1 NO
    1 YES
    1 I'll check with our offices in Taiwan and call you back (altough he said I should check Intel spec sheets, which I did a zillion times, for my Compal HEL80)
     
    thunderforce, Jul 16, 2008
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    thunderforce, Sep 5, 2008
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  11. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    I would advise people to stay away from modded BIOSes unless they know very well what they're getting into. :)

    Though, if it didn't brick your laptop, I suppose it won't brick other G1S-s, either.
     
    E.B.E., Sep 5, 2008
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    I've been using the same modded BIOS since it was released; I even modded my BIOS overclock of the 8600M GT into it.

    However, I was only aware it was for dual core support (within the mentioned operating system).
     
    5482741, Sep 5, 2008
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