10-21-2014, 08:07 AM
I have an HP Pavilion p6-2100 with an AMD dual core processor running Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit. It has a Pegatron motherboard that supports UEFI and legacy BIOS settings. This is my first AMD computer and will undoubtedly be my last. It has and AMI BIOS version 7.15. I have enabled hardware virtualization in the BIOS settings as well as data execution. However, Windows is still stating that Hypervisor can not start because hardware virtualization is not enabled in the system firmware. Virtualbox is also giving me the same error. This is definitely a BIOS issue. Every HP customer who bought an HP computer in this line of Pavilion's with this particular system setup is having the same issue. HP has refused to acknowledge the BIOS failure and issued the following statement: "HP internal has indicated that virtualization is not supported on a consumer level PC. It's up to the individual to make it work. If it is possible, with perhaps the volunteers on this forum as HP has no official presence on this forum." Isn't everyone who purchases a computer considered a consumer regardless of what setting they use it in? I could go on for days on this issue. Here is my question. Is it possible to replace the BIOS on my computer with a different one? HP has such a lockdown on their system BIOS that it almost impossible to replace it with anything other than another BIOS from HP. I have contacted Pegatron as well as AMI, both of which referred me back to HP.
