It is in my Bios on the Vostro 1500.

 

You can check if it is active by downloading and installing the CPU ID Utility from Intel website.

 

 

this is something that is built into the chip and cant be turned off... its always on.

Hi

 

Yes it is a capability of the CPU, but there is usually a BIOS option to enable/disable it.  This is missing in the Vostro 1510 BIOS so the question is, is it enabled or disabled?

 

Cheers

I am being told by Dell Tech Support that this feature is not enabled in the BIOS of the 1510 and that they will raise it to the engineering team to see if this can be added as a BIOS update. It is not enough for just the processor to support VT the chipset has to support it and for it to be enabled / disabled as required.

 

Skev

Hi

 

The Intel CPU ID tells me my cpu supports VT.  I knew that it does already.

 

Are you saying that if it was NOT enabled it would NOT say this?

 

Thanks

 

Anthony 

Thanks Skev

 

I was a little dumbfounded to find this ability not available in my new laptop.  I rely on virtualization on just assumed any new laptop would support it.

 

I will watch the BIOS updates.

 

Anthony 

It's a fair assumption, and I can't belive that they jsut don't run it on by default on all machines. 

Hi doesanyone know how I can find out if anything is/will ever be done about this?

I need my VT support more than ever.

Thanks