DMI Boot CD for Award-AMI-Intel BIOS (Add SLP1.0 w/o modding)

i have the image file, but unfortunatly i cant boot from cd, i have a bootable pendrive and have coppied all the files from the image over, but i cant get it to autorun the dmi tool.

any thoughts and/or suggestions to a fix for my predicament?

 

You of course tried this boot CD & used dmi utility to write Hewlett-Packard string?
And then use HP W2K3 oembios files inside the WHS with SLP key

If you did that then you will have no problem

sebus

 

I did try this dmi method. When I booted from the CD, it did show that I had the 'Hewlett-Packard' string in the DMI area. However, in windows, the SLIC dump tool did not see that string (or may be it was looking at that string in a different place).

I did have the HP oembios files installed even before the flash.

 

This is a new thing for me so please bear with me. I reviewed a lot of posts here to understand what I need to do. I have a Asus M2A-VM motherboard (rev 1705 Award BIOS) with XPP with a VL installed on it.

I would like to convert the VL into OEM and it seems VLK to OEM and the Asus OEMBIOS set is what I need.

I am trying to understand the SLP string and if I need to do anything. From my reading DMI doesn't work with my BIOS for changes.

I booted up on the tatto CD and DMI /g told me that Type 2 Location 8 is "ASUStek Computer INC." Is that string sufficient or do I need to modify th BIOS? If I do any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks

 

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I just ran the read and write utility and it reported this:

[Base Board Information] (Type 2)
<snip>

Type0x02 (2)
Length0x08 (8)
Handle0x0002 (2)
ManufacturerString1 - "ASUSTeK Computer INC."
ProductString2 - "M2A-VM"
VersionString3 - "1.XX "
Serial NumberString4 - "123456789000"

Is that sufficient to convert the OEMBIOS to OEM?

Edit: I didn't do a refresh so I didn't notice your post with the fixed versions. Thanks for that. As a point of interest is the string I found in the existing BIOS sufficient?

Thanks

 

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I searched for the string and got a bunch of hits so I didn't find the list when I was scanning through them.

I did the vl2oem and then installed the free essentials A/V and let it check.

Thanks for your help.

 

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Why string is "Hewlett-Packard" and not "Hewlett" as it is here?

HP & COMPAQ (OEMBIOS.CAT CRC32=CD4E1902)
CODE
F000,FFEA,6,Compaq
F000,0000,FFF0,Hewlett
E000,0000,FFF0,Hewlett
F000,0000,FFF0,Compaq
E000,0000,FFF0,Compaq

 

With HP & COMPAQ (OEMBIOS.CAT CRC32=CD4E1902) Windows will use only "Hewlett" and won't pay attention to "-Packard" in the string.

 

Ok, many thanks

 

hi i have a question, i requested a modified bios for windows 7

now, im using this bios,, i'm wonderin' if it will work on windows xp, if i can install oem slp key for xp just like what i did to windows 7..thanks