[OT] Awardbios virtualisation setting

[John Horne]

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 10:40 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:11:32 +0100
> John Horne wrote:
> 
> > IF I enable the
> > setting, save it, and then power off the PC, and then power-on/reboot,
> > it seems to work fine (virtualisation is enabled) until the next time I
> > reboot the PC. It is then back to being disabled.
> 
> That sounds more like a symptom of the battery on the motherboard
> being too weak to keep the settings if power is removed for a while.
> You might try replacing it and see if the setting sticks then.
> 
Well it's possible I guess. However, the time between setting
virtualization, power-off and reboot is a few seconds. The PC is usually
left off overnight, and has no problems the following day with any other
BIOS settings.



John.

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