Thursday, November 5, 2020

How to Enable Virtualization on WINDOWS 10 PC with GIGABYTE motherboard and AMD RYZEN 5

My specs (run DXDIAG within Windows to view this info)

- Motherboard: GIGABYTE B450M S2H

- BIOS: F50

- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-core Processor (12 CPUs, ~3.6GHz)


Steps:

1. Windows button > Recovery option > Advanced startup > Restart now > Troubleshoot > Advanced options > UEFI Firmware settings > Restart

2. If PC remains black for an undetermined amount of time (and BIOS menu does not appear), try unplugging and replug monitor to CPU.

2.1 If PC still displays a black screen, hit the RESET button. The GIGABYTE logo should appear (see step 3 below).

3. When you see the startup screen with the big GIGABYTE logo, hit DELETE (this instruction appears at bottom left of screen).

4. In the BIOS menu: 

  • Change language to English.
  • M.I.T. > Advance frequency settings > Advanced core CPU settings > SVM Mode > Enable > Save & exit


Enabling SVM mode will turn on virtualization on your windows 10 PC. 

How to confirm? Ctrl+Alt+Del > Task Manager > Performance tab > you will see "Virtualization: Enabled".


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