Hi! Please! -Motherboard Manufacturer : ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Model : X53BR -Bios Revision : 207 -Bios Type : AMI APTIO -Bios SLIC : Asus 2.1 -Bios Link : h**p://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/K43BR/K43BR207.zip
Asus P8Z77-V LK Hi there! Can anyone please help me with a valid SLIC for Windows 8.1 for Asus P8Z77-V LK with the latest bios version 1301. Thanks in advance.
Hi thnx for the bios-mod, but mmtool requires .rom files the bios is a .cap file type, any suggestions on how to do this thnx in advance! greetz Red
GA-EX58-UD5 v1 goes non-genuine once a week ... Back on the 6th of Jan, I uttered: Methinks I may have spoken a weee bit too soon -- I've struck an oddity. After a month of uneventful operation, my GA-EX58-UD5 v1 based W7Ux64 rig (dosflashed with killergd00's "ex58-ud5_f13_2" as linked by serge back in post #32154) did a bizarre hiccup in mid-web-browse, I lost all control of input on both keyboard & mouse for a few seconds, the screen blinked and down in the right corner was the dreaded "Non-Genuine" alert. Eeep! Reset the slmgr, copy in a fresh GA licence file, issue the auth'ing commands as admin as per spec, whew! "Windows is activated." This lasted a week before it happened again. This time re-dosflashed, load optimal defaults, reset slmgr, reload, aaaand safely activated again. That was a week ago. Today it happened again. Please, oh gurus, any thoughts, suggestions, leads or cures? (Additional: I've collected the most recent official BIOSes, with the idea of trying a flash of a modded earlier version, but all such links I'd found forum-wide are, quoth the browser, 404. Anyone got a modded F12 they could up?)
Relevant factoids: MGAdiag gives its notification reason as error 0xC004F057, and under the OEM Activation 2.0 Data header reports "BIOS valid for OA 2.0: Yes, but no SLIC table" A rummage on that error code yielded the usual reports from answers.microsoft, sevenforums et al, and an interesting nugget from the wordpress blog of 'moonlightknighthk' in which he'd struck this same oddity but makes this salient point: Now as it turns out the GA-EX58's all sport true Dual BIOS, twin chips on the board. I hadn't received any oddball errors about an overclock failure or anything else from the BIOS (I'm running it stock, not even running XMS), but it appears for some reason the board had decided to switch to the second BIOS chip, which – as yet – doesn't have the en-SLIC'd version in it. So! The next thing is to figure out how to get the modded BIOS onto both chips. *snaps off a salute* Thanks for the pointer, Tito, I'll report back in a bit with an update! And now, the conclusion. </majelbarrettroddenberry> It appears that GA boards with the twin BIOS chips have a reputation for flipping between the two at the slightest provocation. Ostensibly it is to allow fallback in case of an overclock or otherwise bad BIOS setting, but something as simple as hitting the front-panel RESET button or having a sudden loss of power to the system can be enough to flip who's in charge. Getting both chips identical and SLIC'd up is essential, because if the BIOS chips change over whilst Windows is running (and it is possible for that to happen) the sudden absence of a SLIC table throws the System Protection Service for a wobbly and you'll probably get your tokens corrupted. First things first, I reset all the SL stuff back to trial-key as per Sections 6.G & 6.I of Opa's TOW7R, just to keep W7's confusion to a minimum. I grabbed another copy of killergd00's v2 mod (the v1 has a Dell SLIC in it, by the by) and popped that on my flashing-stick. Booted the stick, wrote on a virgin F13, powered down, booted again, then wrote on the v2 mod. Powered down, booted, loaded optimal defaults, save-&-reboot, set the majority of important BIOS settings to usable state (turn on AHCI, manually set RAM timings & voltage, disable boot graphic, set boot order) and saved them. I let it boot into W7, which no longer grumbled about genuinity (huzzah!) just to make sure it was still with me and the BIOS was letting the machine run in a stable state. Getting both main and backup BIOS chips to be the same took some sleuthing, but here's the procedure, which will work on any GA motherboard with true twin-chip DualBIOS: Hook up a PS/2 keyboard to the GA-board's rear purple PS/2 connector. That''s right, a USB keyboard is not sufficient for this. From a cold start (no power to the machine), press the power button and then enter the BIOS by pressing Del. When you get to the main screen press F9. This will bring up an extra screen which will display more information about the two BIOS versions. Press F8 to start QFlash, then press F10 followed by Enter to turn the machine off cleanly. Press the power button again and this time press right ALT + F12 where you would normally use the Del key to enter the BIOS. You will find that then your monitor will turn black and you will see: Press [Enter] to start copying main BIOS to backup BIOS... When you press Enter it will add: Writing BIOS image.... xxxKb OK as it steps through the blocks. Once it verifies the copy you'll see this flashing text: BIOS successfully recovered! Power off or reset system! Press and hold the power button until it powers off. Both Main and Backup BIOS chips now store the same BIOS version. You can now reboot as normal. I booted into the BIOS one more time and checked the F9 stats page: both on F13, yew bewdy! Boot into Win7, add my cert, tickle the slmgr twice the way it likes it and then checked the System control panel. "Windows is activated." And there, dear reader, it shall f**kin' well stay!