I've tried looking on HP's website and it says I have the latest BIOs. So unless I look for the specific board I think it's updated right now. Unless you have suggestions. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > I've never had it flip on and off, few times with a new laptop I'll try > to start vbox and realize the vt setting is off after a minute of > scratching my head, but not revert randomly. > > See if there is a bios update too. Seems no one bothers to make anything > right the first time since microsoft perfected the "ship crap and patch > later" game. > > You want really odd bios, my newest dell laptop after about a month of use > with only suspends will start turning itself back on back on. Even with a > poweroff now, I have to literally 5 second poweroff to make it stay down or > it'll just start booting again. Ghost in the shell, or at least acpi > functions. > > -mb > > > > On 11/13/2014 06:25 PM, Stephen M wrote: > > Now I don't think this is very relevant but I also have virtualbox setup > on my laptop. I've not had an issue yet like on my desktop. The difference > is that this laptop is a little newer and also I'm not dual booting my > laptop. Other than that they are both setup the same way. > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Stephen M wrote: > >> My computer is around 5 years old and I don't think there is an app that >> controls the BIOS that I'm aware of. The CMOS battery could be an issue >> because when I looked at the date in the BIOS it wasn't set correctly. But >> the date was so I could try that. >> >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Michael Butash >> wrote: >> >>> Sounds like your bios is resetting - maybe the cmos battery? The VT >>> bit is a bios setting, really shouldn't change unless you have a os-level >>> app that controls the bios too. Seems most newer non-basic boards have >>> this now. >>> >>> -mb >>> >>> >>> >>> On 11/13/2014 02:52 PM, Stephen M wrote: >>> >>> It happened the same in 12.04 with 14.04. I have the latest version >>> of virtualbox which is 4.3.18 and the expansion pack. >>> >>> If anyone can think of ideas why this might be happening that would be >>> helpful. But at this time I might have to look for a new computer. >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Stephen M wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> I'm not sure if someone has already asked this question. I have a 64 >>>> bit host that I have VT enabled in the BIOS. I can sometime create/run 64 >>>> bit guest machines and other times not. It is usually when I reboot my >>>> computer. >>>> >>>> I have tried to turn off VT or just having it on. It will eventually >>>> come back though. This problem has been going on for a while now. I was >>>> on Ubuntu 12.04 but now 14.04 beyond that nothing else changed. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Stephen Melheim >>>> 602-400-7707 >>>> SMelheim85@gmail.com >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Stephen Melheim >>> 602-400-7707 >>> SMelheim85@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Stephen Melheim >> 602-400-7707 >> SMelheim85@gmail.com >> > > > > -- > Stephen Melheim > 602-400-7707 > SMelheim85@gmail.com > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Stephen Melheim 602-400-7707 SMelheim85@gmail.com