I am trying to get the Windows XP emulation up and running on my new Windows 7 Professional installation and I found out that you need to enable hardware virtualization.
I have a HP Media Center PC m7428n, I checked and it has an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200 processor which should be able to handle hardware virtualization, but the BIOS setup has no option for it. I checked around and most people have said the HP often hides certain BIOS settings.
Is there any way to get around this and enable it anyway?
Best Answer
Although many sources claim that virtualization works on your model, it's not an absolute certainity.
According to wikipedia, the Athlon 64 X2 4200+ has two models with part numbers ADA4200DAA5BV or ADA4200BVBOX. This seems to be a confusion - there seems to be only a single model.
The site products.amd.com elaborates some more, detailing both the above numbers, but calling them rather
OPN Tray ADA4200DAA5BVandOPN PIB ADA4200BVBOX. It also says "Virtualization : No".To further verify the issue, you may use either SecurAble or Microsoft's Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool (made available by mydigitallife).