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HckrAdm2005   06-24-2009 at 10:42:10 PM

Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L AIO 775 MATX
with a Intel Dual-core E6300 2.8GHz
with 4 GB of Ram.

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HckrAdm2005   06-24-2009 at 10:57:39 PM

I just called gigabyte and they said they haven't tested it yet so does anyone know of a Matx board that supports Windows 7 in XP mode?

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HckrAdm2005   06-24-2009 at 11:16:03 PM

I found out that what you need to have is a Processor that supports the Intel VT.
Great site to go to.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=946&page=2
Also it says the bios must be able to enable VT. Does this MB's bios do that?

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Silver Motherboards badge bilbat   06-24-2009 at 11:23:05 PM

Intlel says E6300 supports virtualization technology; go to BIOS' "Advanced BIOS Features" page, and enable "Virtualization Technology"; you will need to download and install "windows_virtual_pc_beta_x64_343649.msu", followed by "en_windows_xp_mode_beta_x64_349172.msi" for Win7βRC1x64, or "windows_virtual_pc_beta_x86_343649.msu", followed by "en_windows_xp_mode_beta_x86_349172.msi" for Win7βRC1x86...

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HckrAdm2005   06-25-2009 at 04:10:14 PM

Thanks for the info Bilbat. That is exactly what I needed :D

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Silver Motherboards badge bilbat   06-25-2009 at 07:24:29 PM

Always welcome!

Good luck; my experience so far with the VitualXp has been really great - I run a number of older, very ill behaved Rockwell apps on it, and so far (knock on - well - formica) it has worked like a charm...

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