Has anyone succeeded in actually modifying your BIOS?
I've tried all the procedures (both from the entry on the blog and in the rapidshare file), created an appropriate image (yes, I've verified it using vbindiff - the appropriate bit is set and the checksum is correct) and tried to flash it using InsydeFlash. The flashing goes well, but I'm getting no VT-x.
In VirtualBox I'm getting: VT-X/AMV-D hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. (...) Please ensure that you have enabled VT-X/AMD-V properly in the BIOS of your computer.
The log says:
neuro@hermes:~/.VirtualBox/Machines/Ubuntu 9.04/Logs$ grep HWAC VBox.log
00:00:01.456 HWACCM: No VT-x or AMD-V CPU extension found. Reason VERR_VMX_MSR_LOCKED_OR_DISABLED
00:00:01.456 HWACCM: VMX MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL=1
Whilethe support is enabled in my U330's P8400 processor:
neuro@hermes:~$ egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
I checked the BIOS by backing it up again using Insyde Flash to see what's going on. It appears that the changes from my modiefied flash image didn't make it into the BIOS. Any ideas? Maybe the flasher needs some special parameters aside from providing the flash image file?