Intel Motherboards : Intel VT-x won't enable

Author: parsec
Subject: Intel VT-x won't enable
Posted: 03 Feb 2017 at 12:12pm

Perfect way to test it wardog, why didn't I think of that...

njurben02 wrote: OK, I just having a butt-load difficulties loging-in my account. I just checked that the VT-d says is incompatible. Its weird for me that my old H61M supports it and hoping my new with the same chipset will also supports it.

How did you check that VT-d is not compatible? What is telling you that?

Intel specs say the H61 chipset does not support VT-d:

http://ark.intel.com/products/52806/Intel-H61-Express-Chipset

But then I found a list of Intel manufactured mother boards that support virtualization, which includes models with the H61 chipset:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/desktop-boards/000005758.html

So the Intel specs contradict themselves.

There are two options in your new board's BIOS to enable virtualization, one which will not be displayed unless the processor supports it. There seems to be another reason besides lack of support from the hardware for VT-d.

What BIOS version do you have now?

Question for you, did you just move your Windows 7 OS installation drive from the old board to the new one? Or did you install Windows 7 fresh with the new board? I'm sure you had to activate Windows again after changing boards.

Have you installed the basic Intel chipset INF files, and the IME software for your new board?