- Glad it worked. MOST bios flashes require a full cmos clear. One more thing if you could check: Put the computer to sleep and wake up. Check if activation is still valid. If so, we are good. Report back please
Put to sleep worked fine. for a second it said product id not available but then it showed up as activated. I guess that normal. Thanks again.
Thatz great zort. i will try with win 2008 and asus slic. i thought win 2008 vl work only with dell or Hp.. anyway good work guyz..
Just to clarify understanding: Normal OEM7 = Modded ACPITBL and OEM7 containing SLIC in place of original ACPITBL and EPA, with EPA moved to end. Abit OEM7 = OEM7 containing SLIC in place of original ACPITBL with modded ACPITBL at end. Black EPA OEM7 = Modded ACPITBL, OEM7 containing SLIC and Black EPA in place of original ACPITBL and EPA. What exactly constitues an SSV1 mod? What do you consider 'sensitive' modules and why particularly less than 3. I assume UTS64K.BIN would be one... Cheers Andy
The SSV1 method at Award: Acpitable was extracted AND released. SLIC was inserted as NoCompress rom. Acpitable was modified and added as last module. This was all done using Cbrom. All the other methods were developed, because available cbrom versions are not able to handle recently introduced modules. We called them sensitive modules, the offsets of them should be remained. The first were ‘init’ modules (GV3, minit). Later the PE32 modules, Abit was first, Gigabyte followed. They are specially formatted and dependant to others. You cannot just move them. UTS64K.BIN is not a sensitive module, but a sort of romhole. The weakness of the Award modular structure is when you release a module, the offsets of the modules behind are changed as well. Sensitive module= module that cbrom cannot handle correctly…..better remain its original offset at bios. It depends on what version of cbrom you are relate it. So the original SSv1 method wasn’t working anymore because if you’ve released the acpitable using cbrom the bios was unusable. The offsets of the modules behind are changed, the modules cbrom doesn’t know about got corrupt as result. The last version of cbrom is CBROM32_195.exe. If that version allows to extract / release acpitable module again, handling the ‘sensitive’ modules correctly, we can do SSV1 again……. Your explanation of the OEM7 derivates is correct. A genreal rule at modifiying bios: Keep the modular structure of a bios as original as possible.
Mod request GA-945GM-s2 F6 Asus successfull Vista behaved very odd on the the bios mod... First not activated then illega (at login)l then activated but Illegal and non genuine as the patch for Vista sp1 came allong all converted nicely in activated and genuine I do not understand at all but it works apearently nothing was wrong with the modding sorry for that by the way i used everest to see the slic after your answer it marked the ASUS notebook so your patch ad to be ok A thousand thanks