I have seen more gimping of hardware in hp desktops/laptops that were deemed budget oriented than any other vendor. To the point of killing features that the cpu/chips ET would natively support. It looks like you have discovered this in spades. On Friday, November 14, 2014, Michael Butash wrote: > Don't buy HP - been there, done that. Told "linux isn't relevant enough > to fix a bios bug". Stopped buying them. > > Sadly no, vendors (like hp) suck for linux at times and in general, might > try some of the various grub flags for disabling acpi, if a desktop and not > sleeping, you're not losing much except maybe some power management. Dell > is generally more friendly, but as I mentioned not always either. Anything > windoze 8.x-ish is just generally more unfriendly/quirky toward linux I > find. > > Thank them when you pay your next microsoft tax on a prebuilt system. > > -mb > > > > On 11/13/2014 11:41 PM, Stephen M wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen