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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: burrcheese on September 24, 2011, 02:53:18 am

Title: GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 how to enable VT-d
Post by: burrcheese on September 24, 2011, 02:53:18 am

Im having a hard time getting VT-D enabled on my GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3. I was wondering if someone knew of a bios that could enable it.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Title: Re: GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 how to enable VT-d
Post by: Dark Mantis on September 24, 2011, 08:36:00 am

Hi if I remember correctly if you contact runn3R our forum Administrator who is employed by Gigabyte he can arrange to have a customised BIOS sent to you.

Currently our P67/H67 series motherboards do not support VT-D I am unsure whether the same applies to the Z68 series. They support  Virtualization Technology (VT-x) now (bios option "Virtualization Technology")

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=13

Title: Re: GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 how to enable VT-d
Post by: burrcheese on September 24, 2011, 02:08:53 pm

Thank you i contacted him. I know there are a handful of z68 boards that support it. Hopefully it can be enabled on this model.

Title: Re: GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 how to enable VT-d
Post by: burrcheese on October 05, 2011, 11:11:24 pm

I contacted gigabyte for a bios for the Z68MA-D2H-B3 that supports VT-D. They provided me with this:

https://rapidshare.com/files/3782727672/ad2h3vtd.f8

They assure me that is supports VT-D but i have been unable to get passthrough working in ESXI 5.0
The option to enable it is under the advanced settings that appear once you press CTRL + F1
I figured i would post it and maybe someone else would have more luck.

Title: Re: GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 how to enable VT-d
Post by: Dark Mantis on October 06, 2011, 07:57:03 am

Thanks for the feedback anyway and maybe somebody else can try it and give you some pointers.

Title: Re: GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 how to enable VT-d
Post by: Shinji on December 01, 2011, 03:08:30 pm

Hi,

I injected the Firmware that you provide, after in Bios Motherboard press CTRL+F1 give you access to advanced chipset features. there you can active vT-D.

But same as you My ESXi 5.0 did not recognize the passtrouth support.

someone help ?

Title: Re: GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 how to enable VT-d
Post by: Gloup_Gloup on December 16, 2011, 10:07:33 pm

Hi all,  ;)

If you want more infos about VT-x, VT-d , check this Topic:


Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O feature for GA-PH67-UD3-B3 MO
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,6398.msg50287.html#msg50287

Gloup-Gloup