Hello I have major problem with Aspire 8930G - just spent over £3,200 on 2 of these top of the range machines with latest and greatest Intel T9400 Core 2 Duo Processors - which is definatly has VT capability (we desperatly need to run Hyper -V) Acer has decided in their infinite wisdom not to include an option in the BIOS to enable VT. Tried Acer support 3 times but could not get through to anyone intelligent enough to understand my problem - they kept asking me if it was agraphics issue !! also one of them actually said that he had never heard of anyone tryimg to run Virtual Images on a laptop !!!
I could not believe this option was not available in the BIOS of a brand new model - we have been running Virtual PC for years - for the last 2 years every laptop I have seen (Toshiba, Samsung and Dell has had this option).
We are stuffed without this option, so we are willing to try any hack whatever the risk - Calling all Gurus who like a challange - please help ??? Thanks very much if you can help Gary
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From what I've seen, if the manufacturer doesn't offer a way to enable it in the BIOS, it's not going to happen without making some modifications to the BIOS. Some of the forums I read had people saying they'd release a tool for it, but I haven't found any released, and even then , they'd likely be limited to just certain motherboards.
I would find a way to return the laptops. It looks like Acer is leaving a lot of people in the cold on this one.
From forum post: http://forum.notebookrevie
Dear ******
Thank you for contacting Acer America. I apologize for the delay in responding to your email. The BIOS is provided as is; that I know of Acer does not plan to implement a BIOS update to offer this feature. I'm sorry I am unable to assist with this issue.
Regards,
Acer Online Support Team
If they use a Phoenix bios, you could try the following - http://www.rapidsharedownl
Unfortunatly the whole reason we bought such a powerful laptop was to run Hyper-V - Hype-V will not run without VT enabled. Its astonishing to me that Acer do not allow us to access this capbility when it comes with this chip as standard. Also I spent over a day getting Windows 2008 Server installed (lots of drivers required) - now runs like a dream, much better than Vistawith fantastic graphics and full earo experience in full HD, so would be a shame to send back, its a brilliant laptop apart from this crazy BIOS ommission - in fact its the worst BIOS I have seen with hardly any options available.
I'm guessing they leave it disabled so they have one less thing to support, plus only a very small percentage of people buying notebooks would need VT enabled. If you really want to pursue it, you can probably get it enabled by editing a copy of the BIOS, but it's tricky and it's likely to wind up as a brick.
I have given up on Acer, their support team is useless, escalations team tried to help but the engineers would not - their attitude is very arrogant they just dont care what the user wants they have the attitude that they know whats best and if it doesn't suit, tough even if I have just wasted over £3,000. Its very frustrating because having spoke to other engineers I know that it would be very easy for them to change the BIOS. I have just bought a Dell Studio 16 with 8 Gig RAM, Windows Server 2008 and Hyper- V (fantastic software) runs like a dream on this machine went on immediatly no issues at all 64 bit Vista drivers worked perfectly.
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by: CrashDummy_MSPosted on 2008-10-30 at 13:45:01ID: 22845234
Are you sure it is disabled? This tool will tell you http://www.grc.com/securab
I thought I had found your answer here but it doesn't look like their project went very far, hasn't been updated at least.
https://launchpad.net/vt-e