911Medic: Thank you very much for answering...but let me make sure that I am reading you clearly. You are telling me to flash the bios with the original bios from Gigabyte and then flash the gigabyte bios with the new modified bios with the 2.1 Slic - In otherwords, do not flash the modified bios of the asus 2.0 slic with a 2.1 slic - am I reading you correctl?
Thank you Zort and I really do admire and respect you, 911Medic, Yen and so many others on this forum....
No, I thought you were going to replace the slic in a previously modded bios file. If you modded a fresh bios, then flash away..
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Hi Zort, I restored the original bios using other PC with the same board, i use afuwin and make bios file from the rom of the other PC. then i flash the image using afuwin not the HP utility "because it is not working in my case as it is not detecting my PC as HP PC" i select to update all. then everything restored back to it's original state, as i mentioned earlier that HP installer which coming with bios package have something to do with bios OEM information, because when i flash the 535.rom (from HP package) using standard afuwin flash tools and update everything then the resulted bios has no relation with HP even there is no SLIC present. It looks like this HP installer first checking the platform and then patch the bios file before flash, please correct me if this is stupid idea, because everytime we made a mod and flash it, we found the original HP SLIC2.0 is present.
hi Zort, The SLIC2.0 will persisted if i used HP installer, but if i mod a fresh .rom file from the HP installer package and flash it using afuwin and update everything then there will be only SLIC2.1 but the bios will not be HP bios, and is not going to activate VISTA like this case see attached acpiscope report. I have before succeed with bios for HP 6041, but i think the case is different, it was AWARD bios and the mod is ISA, can we sue ISA method to mod this Phoenix bios?? forgive me if i am stupid
I tried all the ways but vista refuses to activate using the SLIC2.1, i use correct Key and certificate. if i just flash the original HP bios then it is activated imediately
Part of the flash sequence is the erasure of code from the flash rom. When you say you are flashing "over" the SLIC 2.0, this is incorrect. When you flash the bios, You are removing(erasing) the old information (code), and reinserting new code. This is why repeated flashing brings increased risk. The more you remove and reinsert information, the greater chance of error doing same...simple prob stat... At any rate, some of the code does not get removed and rewritten; the boot block specifically. Some of the folks here recommend a complete flash with new, unodded bios; then flash modded bios without switches..I say to flash the mod, then clear te cmos and load the defaults is sufficient in most cases..this cuts down on the probability of borked flash..Just my opinion Enjoy the added function(?) with 02.1 SLIC (win7)...