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Author: Stephen M
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To: Mike Butash, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: VirtualBox
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
>>>>
>>>>
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