How to enable hardware virtualization on AMD Asus motherboard

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 ADA4200DAA5BV and OPN 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).

So right after I posted this I went to the same page and loaded the "Optimized Defaults". Several options appeared in the advanced menu, including SVM, which is enabled by default. I don't recall making any custom settings in the BIOS previously, but this seems to have solved the problem. Thanks!