All: As EFI BIOS motherboards are here and the future, I definitely had some confusion and uncertainty in whether or not they could be safely modded, and wanted to share my experience and success. After just purchasing an ASUS P8P67 Deluxe rev 3.0 board and doing a ton of reading, I was able to successfully modify and insert a SLIC 2.1 table and activate Windows 7 with no problem. Procedure: Download latest BIOS. FLASH the motherboard BIOS to the latest just downloaded. Open RW-Everything. After RW-Everything Opens, click ACCESS - ACPI Tables. When ACPI Tables opens, click anywhere within the ACPI Window. Click CONTROL + F2 to save the entire table. Open the Phoenix SLIC Tool. Open the unmodified BIOS. Set manufacturer to ASUS, choose SLIC as ASUS.bin, SLP as ASUS.txt, RW as the table we just saved. Method is DYNAMIC. Go. Save the new _SLIC BIOS. Reboot and flash. Shut down machine and reset BIOS with the clear CMOS switch on the back. Boot machine and reconfigure the BIOS. Load Windows and use slmgr.vbs to load certificate and key as usual. Hope this helps and good luck Twillux
hi, i have a p8h61-m and bios is efi too. i did 1 week ago the mod to last bios rev with dynamic method, all went fine. but when i try to flash in ezflash had error: not bios efi file. How did u flash your mobo after mod? Tkz for ur attention
So you're saying that after the bios had a modified installation, you tried to flash it and it wouldn't let you? I just got the board a few days ago and haven't tried to flash it again after the initial modified bios flash... hopefully that's not the case? If so, try flashing in the bios, try using the DOS tool, and worst case, try the crash-free recovery flashing procedure... wonder if any of those three will work? Guess I will find out when ASUS releases a new update.
problem solved.... i used an old rev of phoenix and bios slic was corrupted... used 1.84 and flashed from ezflash all OK.......tkz for your attention
That last step where you clear the CMOS physically with a switch is completely overkill and unnecessary. After you flash the BIOS, the only thing you have to do is load the default values by pressing F5.
Normally I would agree; however, my entire machine would not POST after enumerating the storage controllers. I had to perform a full BIOS reset in order for it to go through; some may have better luck.
I did evertything you posted. 1- downloaded latest bios 0805. 2- Flashed latest bios 0805. 3- use RW-everything to save the acpi table file. 4- open Pheonix utility version 1.84. 5- inserted the originale bios i just flashed. 6- Manufacturer = asus slic file = asus.bin slp=asus.txt RW=file i just created with RW-Everything. 7- is where i have a problem. I insert the asus-new.xrm.ms certificate and i get an error as follow: Complete SLIC2.0 (A M I OEMSLI ) does NOT match certificate (X1) ASUS.BIN matches certificate. is this a normal error?
Thinking of buying this board, can you post the modded bios, possibly with the ASUS executable packaging? People could download and review it, and I could be one of them. I would like to give this a shot but I would need more than a step by step since i've never modded, only downloaded. You did this within a win7 environment? Any bootable iso like the HP slp tool to do this without needing an OS? A PE disk would be awesome. Maybe just a zip file with everything needed inside it, I install win7 with the slic key but isn't oem activated yet, mod the bios, restart, install the cert, good to go?
Guys I don't understand one thing. If I just flash the BIOS with the new SLIC 2.1 inserted one, wouldn't clearing the CMOS jumper just cancel what I just did?
Thank you so much, i've managed to flash my P8P67-M bios with your method If anyone wants the moded bios file for this specific board just PM me. (i can't put the link here because apparently my post count is not greater than 20...)
Trying to mod a P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3... Followed all directions but when i select the modded bios in ASUS EZ Flash 2 v01.04 it says read failed (original bios worked fine) I used RW1.5.1 and Phoenix 1.93 datafilehost.com/download-da9389e6.html for rwfile Not sure if i did something wrong so I am holding off on flashing in dos Any ideas? Thank you!
This one worked with asus ez flash, not sure why the one i made did not work...part of the reason why i didnt try dos originally Are you using the slics included with 1.93 or different ones? Settings in phoenixDell/EFI SLIC Mod v1.93: original bios Asus manufacturer Slic Asus 2.1 (the one included) SLP asus RW File (tried blank rw and one from link above) Dynamic Method Thank you for the help!