Cannot enable hardware virtualization on GA-F2A85X-UP4

[BerMM]

I've tried just about every combo of BIOS settings and rebooting I can think of, but when I try havdetectiontool or Parallels Workstation 6 both report that my machine is not capable of hardware assisted virtualization. My specs are

AMD A10-5700 APU
Alpine 64 GT R2 PWM HS/Fan
Gigabyte GA-F2A85X-UP4 Motherboard
G.Skill F3-17000CL9D-8GBXM RAM
Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe Tuner
Hauppage WinTV-HVR-2250 Tuner
Western Digital Scorpio Black 250GB x2 Hard Drives (RAID 0 System & Apps)
Seagate 7200RPM 750GB Hard Drive
Hitachi 7200RPM 500GB Hard Drive (JBOD with Seagate as DVR Storage)
Arctic F8 PWM 2x Intake Fans
OCZ ModXstream Pro 600W Power Supply
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

I also can't get my F3-17000CL9D-8GBXM to run at 2133 despite upping my NBVID as suggested here http://gigabytedaily.blogspot.com/2012/11/amd-trinity-overclocking-guide-on.html . I have it running at 1866 just fine.

Any ideas? Is my board, CPU, or RAM possibly faulty?

[autotech]

DDR3 1866/1600/1333/1066
That is what your board supports.
If you have virtualization in bios it comes up on mine just like that and gives me 2 choices enable or dieable. If your CPU and MB support it then it should be there cant tell you about that board though as mine is the 890fx ud5. Maybe someone with that board or a moderator can help you about that feature on that board better than I can.

[BerMM]

Actually Gigabyte certified the 4x4 version of my RAM kit at 2133 for this board, so it should run somehow. As for virtualization, I haven't found any similar reports, so I'm beginning to think that my board or CPU isn't 100%. Thanks though

[BerMM]

I found this (AMD-VwithRVI_Hyper-V_CompatibilityUtility.zip) and ran it with the following results:
SVM and IOMMU disabled in BIOS: Correctly reported that BIOS support wasn't present or disabled.
SVM and IOMMU enabled in BIOS: Reports that my processor doesn't support AMD-V.
Something is clearly wrong here. What are the chances that my board or CPU could be bad in only this respect?

[BerMM]

I uninstalled Parallels and then enabled SVM and IOMMU, and now both tools report that my system fully supports hardware virtualization. I'm now trying XP Mode, looks like I may need to reinstall it. With any luck this will be a Parallels issue and not hardware.

[BerMM]

Well thanks everyone.

It seems to have been Parallels all along, which explains why they abandoned the product. Still find it odd that software could so effectively block a hardware feature, especially without any record of the issue on google. I'll keep looking into the RAM speed issue. I did have to track down a MS hotfix for V_PC on bulldozer CPUs, but now I'm pretty happy with everything but Parallels.

Any suggestions on a free VM to replace Parallels? My primary use will be to view a large catalog of old video (not that kind; recordings from previous DVR PCs) with various codecs on a XP client.

Thanks!