Does a Bios VIA® VT for Asus P4P800 exist?

DownBeach

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Can my Asus P4P800 deluxe MB Bios be upgraded with VIA® VT for virtual XPsp3 Windows 7? I'm having trouble with MS Security Updates and found the WindowsUpdateDiagnostic.diagcab will not run unless I upgrade to Windows 7.
 

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I can't update my Windows XPsp3 since 8/14 and without this upgrade my system will not be able to read WindowsUpdateDiagnostic.diagcab file.. Win'7 is the least OS to be able to read it. I've been through checking my system at:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=134766.0
Windows 7
Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, or Windows 7 Enterprise.
Hard disk requirement: 2GB for installing Windows XP Mode. Additional 15GB of hard disk space for the virtual Windows environment.
Note: You can use Windows Virtual PC to run Windows XP Mode on your computer. Windows Virtual PC requires processor capable of hardware virtualization, with AMD-V™, Intel® VT or VIA® VT turned on in the BIOS.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8002
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The diagcab file extention first appeared in Windows Vista and was used by Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (msdt.exe), so the earlier versions of Windows, e.g. Windows XP, has no ability to deal with .diagcab files. In Windows Vista, msdt.exe can run the script, but it requires a ticket from Microsoft support team to do the job so the use is very limited. Users of Windows 7, Windows 8 and Window RT will not feel any problem with .diagcab files.
http://www.diagcab.com/what-is-diagcab-file/

 

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I'm going through this for nothing.

If you're trying to use Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC on a computer running Windows 7, you might see one of the following error messages saying that your computer doesn't support hardware-assisted virtualization (HAV):

Unable to start Windows Virtual PC because hardware-assisted virtualization is disabled.

Cannot start Windows Virtual PC Host Process. Check the system event log for more details.

Windows Virtual PC cannot start because this computer does not support hardware-assisted virtualization.

An update is available to remove the HAV requirement for using Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC in Windows 7.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/why-am-i-receiving-errors-about-hav