Acer Veriton 6900Pro Virtualization and Sata Options

[infinitydon]

Good day geeks, i have a frustrating situation here. I have an Acer Veriton 6900 Pro with bios version R03-A4, CPU Type DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E4400. The cpu supports Virtualization but the Bios is not giving me any options for virtualization, i checked the user guide from Acer, it says there is a virtualization option and advanced Sata Option, all these are not available in my bios option. I need this to practice Bare metal installation of Virtualization software (Vmware esxi,Proxmox,Citrix Xenserver, Hyper V 2008)--all of them will only work effectively with Virtualization support in the Bios. i don't have cash to even buy a Bios upgrade (from biosagnetplus) not to talk of getting a system that supports all these options.
Please any help will be appreciated. Am counting on you guys, please help me out. Acer could be funny and am surprised.

Thanks

[1234s282]

Please post a download link to the bios !

Thanks
Admin

[infinitydon]

This is the link to the Bios from Acer site:
ftp://ftp.acer-euro.com/desktop/veriton_...indows.zip (for Windows XP)
ftp://ftp.acer-euro.com/desktop/veriton_..._Vista.zip (for Vista)
ftp://ftp.acer-euro.com/desktop/veriton_...XP_DOS.zip ( for Dos)

Thanks

[1234s282]

Your bios already has the open for virtualization under advanced >> cpu feature >>

If you cant see this open then try pressing Ctrl Home , Ctrl F1 or Ctrl F9 when in the bios because sometimes this key combination is required in order to display advanced settings!

There were a couple of useful things hidden which ive unlocked incluiding the option to change the cpu fsb (ie overclocking)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/747181/Acer%20Ve...282.zipTry at your own risk though!

Regards
Admin

[infinitydon]

Well i tried the above key combinations, still i can't see anything on Virtualization under advanced settings>> cpu feature. May be i should try to flash the bios again with HP boot disk with the DOS version. By the way did u see any SATA options, because those are also part of what i need. Which version of the Bios did you modify or can ACer be doing something funny here? (but i don't think so)

[1234s282]

I dont recall seeing any SATA options , i unlocked most things in there except for the power management hidden bits (because we have found that they can really corrupt the bios if unlocked so i left them)

i modified version R01-B1

Try flashing through DOS

good luck

Admin

[infinitydon]

Tried flashing my bios, the system is down after flashing, can't boot again. Well i think it was worth a try. I don't knowif there is any way to reprogramme Acer veriton. If there is a way out, please let me, if not then i take it as one of those things, it's just i have been day dreaming about Virtualization and i don't seem to get people around me that are as excited about it (from Nigeria). Any way for now i have brought an old Dell system with 2Gb Ram and have installed VirtuaBox on it to run Vyatta, but nothing can be compared to running Level 1 Hyper-visors. I know one day will come when i will have the right hard ware to pull this off without reprogramming the flash.

Thanks man for at least trying, everything is about Risk. I guess it is too risky no to take a risk

[1234s282]

Follow our recovery guides here:

www.bios-mods.com/biosrecovery.html

I also have an unlocked R03-A4 version of the bios for this machine http://dl.dropbox.com/u/747181/Acer%20Ve...34s282.zip if you want to try that?

Admin