No idea Guys, g' day to all and forgive my ignorance, please. If I can help in what I know I am all yours. Thanks. TWO ISSUES: AUSUS P5QLPRO with AMI Bios 0.92. Vista and digital certs.This is a SATA system as well. I had a look at BIOS and ACPI 2.0 is DISABLED. Is there anything else to enable since I could not install certs last night. Thanks? Old AUSUS P4B533 with AWARD bios, This one does not have SLA 2.0. What can I do...........besides the Paradox emulation......... Thanks !
I might have not explained well myself on the SLA 2.0 and P5QL PRO since I only realized the SLIC and SLA 2.0 AFTER I installed Vista in the machine and could not activate. The key and the digital certificates installed successful BUT it would not activate. I put the Paradox solution and then was activated. This morning and AFTER finding comments around ENABLING in the BIOS the SLa 2.0 I look at the P5QL PRO Bios and found that SLA 2.0 WAN NOT ENABLED. 1) Is this why it did not work ? 2) With modern bios like this if you do enable this before installing the op sys then no need to mods and should work? This last question is the one I am trying to understand. Or still you need to mod the Bios. Thanks !
If you install Everest you can look under Motherboard->ACPI and see if SLIC is listed. If you're using 32-bit os you can also use acpiscope to check.
ZORT, g' day, see you are on line. If I have a BIOS ALREADY with SLA 2.0 BUT it is DISABLED; then if I enable it and then install VISTA (this is ASUS P5QL PRO with AMI 0.92 and Quad Core Intel 8200) then I DO NOT need to slic in or modify anything ? Just the proper key and the digitial certificate OR has ASUS provided the facility in the Bios but the 374 bytes info is missing? I technically have some understanding but get confused with not complete and clear explanations. Thanks
You'll need a modded BIOS for there to be a valid SLIC. You can verify that it is present using Everest before you install Vista. As far as the BIOS setting you can try it both ways and see if it makes a difference.
Tried to reply before and something went wrong. THANKS ! Ok there are 3 ASUS machines here. One is P5B Deluxe and two are P5QL PRO. Everest tells me ALL have SLIC with _ASUS_, size 374 bytes,etc,etc. So it is there. BUT the SLA 2.0 is disabled in BIOS and I suspect that is a problem. Last night I did use the proper key during installation and then manually via command line as admin I put the certificate and got a prompt of success at the end but would not activate. Then I put the Vista Developer thing and that was it. This morning I found this forum and smelling the rat, for what I could get, looked and found BIOS disabled on SLA 2.0 extension. Can I conclude that that was the problem? I may need to re do a machine to prove the point?