http://www.grc.com/securable.htm   here is a nice tool to tell you what is available on any PC, I know this does not help your situation, Some bios's have a lock bit on this feature, so it cannot be enabled. Go Figure.

Steve from www.grc.com is supposed to be working on a little util that will let you enable both DEP and VT if your CPU supports them.

Hopefully that will solve this issue.  :smileyhappy:

 

I knew about the DEP in the new tool, did not read anything about VT, that would be cool.

Hi Guys,

 

I read an interview with Steve, sometime last summer. ( I've had a look around but i can't find the interview now.)  In one section, he was talking about using DEP and virtual machines to work and browse in safety. He pointed out that most modern CPU's had special features that support these built into them, but they were turned off in the BIOS.

 

Later he then mentioned he was looking into a way to allow users to check if their CPU's had these features and whether they could be switched back on.  I assume he is still working on getting both to work, as SecurAble checks to see if both features are built into your CPU. 

 

   M  M

Has anyone figured out how to enable VT on the e510 or 5150?  It still seems ridiculous to me that both the motherboard and processor support it but Dell will not allow us to enable it.  I also saw that they did go back and correct this oversight for the XPS 700 but I have not seen an update for other models yet.