symcmos not working?

[wzzrd]

I recently bought a Sony VAIO, not knowing Sony disables VT in the BIOS without the option to turn it on.

I read about using a tool called symcmos to alter a cmos register to enable Intel VT anyway, so I made a boot USB disk with DOS on it and symcmos.

However, when I run it, it gives

Write symbolic report to file: DEFAULT.TXT

combineFiles (0h, COMBINE.ROM)...
initPdmEntry ...
search '$PDM' ... not Found!
pdmEntry = NULL !

This is build 643710-035. The older 643710-023 build only gives

Write literal report to file: DEFAULT.TXT
Cannot find BCPNV

as output. Can anyone please help me a bit here? What is going wrong? Is symcmos unable to read my cmos? Am I using a faulty version of symcmos? Can any of the BIOS guru's here explain what the error message means?

[edwin]

Disclaimer: Although this is a fairly simple task, I take no responsibility should anything go wrong, so try this at your own risk. This method only applies to VAIOs with a Phoenix BIOS and CPUs that support VT-x, not the newer Montevina-based VAIO FW, Z, SR, BZ, TT, AW, CS or other models with the Aptio/InsydeH2O UEFI framework.

So, which series do you have?

[wzzrd]

This is an interesting quote. Where did you find that text?

I'm not sure what it is saying btw. The P8400 series Core2Duo is supposed to support Intel VT. I quote seems to suggest that my proc does not support Intel VT, because it is Montevina, but why that would be the case I do not know.

Or does the quote just mean that my BIOS isn't supported by the app?

[edwin]

On a forum for support for that utility.

You have a Montevina-based system and that is not supported by this version of the utility. I think because enabling that by hacking the bios is done in a different way not supported by this version of the utility.

[wzzrd]

On a forum for support for that utility.

I had a hard time finding an actual download site (as a lot of them were not available at the time). I did not stumble over a support forum, can you provide a hint as to where to find it. I would really appreciate it

Thanks for your help on this.

[edwin]

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=189228