Hi Not that sophisticated I'm afraid. The likes of yen, 911medic and zort have probably forgotten more about BIOS modding than I will ever know!!! It very simply modifies a binary image of the (extracted) 1B module by finding and inserting the SLIC at 200h before 'AMIBIOS', and finding and modding the RSDT and XSDT tables size, OEM table string and SLIC pointer. I have 2 asus boards that only need the above hence the tool. It does not manipulate the BIOS directly. I need to look (out of own interest) further at FC methods, v2 methods etc... although I don't have any of these boards to test personally. I certainly don't intend to compete with tools like yen's. Take care, Andy
This is an interesting point... what, if anything, is there to choose between amimmwin and mmtool... has anyone ever found cases where a bios generated with one doesn't work whereas the other does... Andy
My understanding is MMTool is the safer one to use. Amimmwin is over 3 years old so I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't handle some newer bioses correctly. Also in the case of Asus BIOS, amimmwin overwrites "ASUSTEK" signature which has to be fixed afterward. I do use it sometimes for this: amimmwin xxx.rom /info xxx.txt. I'd recommend looking into SSV2 next. It can be used with any AMI BIOS, and is the safest way since no offsets change for any modules. (It takes longer and isn't always needed though.)
Gotcha guys. Considering the fact that I have been formatting my computer a lot, the Vista mod always gets uninstalled. I will see how to clean the CMOS now. I will use the modded BIOS once someone has it. Thanks .
Some Vistaloader (softmods) are using the MBR or PBS. Formatting doesn't remove them......You have to re-partition the drive, or to use special uninstaller VOATK tool. Also easybcd is able to rewrite MBR / PBS....