Thank you very much Serg for your work. I'll try it and post results but not very soon (because CPU itself didn't arrived yet).
Hi Serge, I apologize for the delay getting back to you. I am guessing it would be SLIC 2.1 for windows 7 ultimate offline activation?, but I am planning to have this motherboard in dual boot with probably windows 10 or 8.1 (just for experimentation) I did not know there were more recent SLIC editions/protocols like 2.5 etc, what would you recommend?
Hi serge, your slic bios dell mod worked with older Asus (laptop) OEM certificate already installed on my older win7 SSD which is pretty cool. Only thing with this bios motherboard Sata ports are not populated with drives in Bios view in AHCI mode (not showing in Bios post either), but would show in boot priority view and boot fine, able to boot from M.2 SSd PCIe extension card, drives appear in IDE mode in Sata IDE view. But everything works fine, will submit feedback to original forum who preformed the NVMe mod, thanks again Serge
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/award-ami-bios-mod-requests.5863/page-3036#post-1417172 Verified working with ASUS Cert