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I need to turn on hardware virtualization on my desktop. Every time I try to enable it through turning features on and off it does not work. I can't access my BIOS either because my screen turns black when I try, I think it's because of my crappy monitor. Please help me if you know a reason on why this could be happening or if you have a solution (Also I checked and there weren't any problems with the connection of the monitor)! There aren't any error messages or anything else like that with this topic and it just doesn't work in the system. I've tried basically everything I could find online unless I missed something.
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This probably won't help but....
Depending on the age and configuration of your system. Have a look at the back and see if you have another monitor port. If so, then, plug a monitor into the other port.
Many years ago I had a system to which I added a GPU but BIOS was only visible when I used the onboard (mainboard) monitor port (which I think was VGA at that time). Then I found a setting in BIOS that allowed BIOS to work via the GPU. This was some time ago so I suspect it is not relevant. I thought it was worth mentioning anyway.
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Hi Izzy,
If you are turning on Virtualization from Windows Features and it fails, then its possible its disabled in BIOS.
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Hi,
Please try another port and cable first. If you have other adapters like a RAID adapter or a HBA adapter on your motherboard, remove them temporarily and try again.
Additionally, see if you can reset the BIOS using the BIOS jumper whose location should be indicated in the motherboard manual.
Best Regards,
Ian Xue
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