[OT] Awardbios virtualisation setting

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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.
> 
> (And why on earth do all BIOSes always want to disable this by
> default? What on earth would it hurt to have it enabled?)
> 
I could see it being the battery if he lost them when he did the
power off, but he only loses them on a warm boot. Maybe a BIOS
problem when doing a warm boot?

Mikkel
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