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Does the GA EP45-UD3P have VT-d support?

Does the GA EP45-UD3P have VT-d support?
« on: September 01, 2010, 03:33:45 pm »
Hi all,

I have a GA EP45-UD3P rev. 1.0 mainboard (BIOS F10), which I'm very happy with.  I currently have a Q9650 installed in it.  I know that the CPU supports Intel's Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (aka VT-d), but I also know that for this feature to work, the mainboard needs to support it.

Does anyone know if this board has VT-d support?  I do some virtual machine work both with Windows 7 XP mode and VMWare Workstation, so I'd be interested to know.  Thanks for any information you can provide.

Dark Mantis

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Re: Does the GA EP45-UD3P have VT-d support?
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2010, 03:49:57 pm »
If you check your manual on page 51 you can see how to select it.

http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-ep45-ud3p(ud3r)(ud3)_1.6_e.pdf
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Re: Does the GA EP45-UD3P have VT-d support?
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2010, 07:19:20 pm »
If you check your manual on page 51 you can see how to select it.

http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-ep45-ud3p(ud3r)(ud3)_1.6_e.pdf

The manual simply lists "Virtualization Technology", which implies Intel VT-x.

Virtualization for Directed I/O (also known as "VT-d") is an additional feature.  This is the feature I'm asking about.  Not all Intel processors which support VT-x support VT-d (in my case, the Q9650 does), and it needs to be run on a VT-d capable mainboard too.

So, back to my first question --does anyone know if this board supports VT-d, and if so, how to ensure it is enabled?

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Re: Does the GA EP45-UD3P have VT-d support?
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2010, 10:51:57 pm »
Hi,

Its very strange, my motherboard doesn´t have the Vt-d options on the bios too... I have downloaded the manual of the last motherboard of Gigabyte and nothing...

And I can´t put Vt-d to work, without bios support...

Best regards,
Leao

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Re: Does the GA EP45-UD3P have VT-d support?
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2010, 11:31:41 pm »
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For test your CPU

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?ProductID=1881&DwnldID=7838&lang=eng

Run and look Technologies

Pierre

but for VT-d look this for motherboards ASUS & GigaByte :

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VTdHowTo

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