Thanks Both Thanks Regina and Ren. Did both steps and its working. Replace "HP" with hewlette packard and its working. Then did the steps ren said in winplash just replaced the dmi and so far doing sp3 update
Yen's easy auto method Have used this app to mod an Asus BIOS. The result is that Windows Vista is activated and my mobo is not bricked. Anti-virus thinks the app is a Trojan! Great stuff
Try adding the SLIC as noncomress module and edit the ACPITBL to point the adress of the SLIC. BTW. Edit RSDT and/if XSDT
acbrom doesn't work. Code: C:\acbrom.exe CUVD1016.AWD /D The Area Map is unknown. Either not ASUS's BIOS or incorrect BIOS kernal. CUVD1016.AWD Error.
Hi, a SSV3 mod should work. Place SLIC to mainbios and call it from RSDT. Offset 1D000h of mainmodule will be mapped to FD000h physical memory. Don't forget to append as last byte the 8 bit checksum of previous module. @petar Your mod may cause a crash! Free areas (unregistered modules or code) are usually corrected to FFh bytes at Award bios during flash process, which means RSDT calls a FFh area. IMO I wouldn't try it...........
Than this should mean that ACPITBL will be lost as well (cousing even more coruption of thee bios...), couse it was inserted the same way...
Ok, I assume I should not use Petar's mod then? Is Fzeven's mod a SSV3? Or is it at least safe to flash? Out of curiousity, why there are two different locations for SLIC between Fzeven & Petar's mods? Code: 00000000 52 53 44 54 34 00 00 00 01 00 5F 41 53 55 53 5F RSDT4....._ASUS_ 00000010 4E 6F 74 65 62 6F 6F 6B 31 30 30 30 4D 53 46 54 Notebook1000MSFT 00000020 31 30 31 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1011............ 00000030 [ 1 ] * 3B FB FD FF 42 4F 4F 54 28 00 00 00 01 00 41 53 ;ûýÿBOOT(.....AS 00000030 [ 2 ] * B8 04 FE FF 42 4F 4F 54 28 00 00 00 01 00 41 53 ¸.þÿBOOT(.....AS One other difference thing I've noticed in Fzeven's mod (from bit.exe's report1.dat) is that the "Main CheckSum Status" is absent. Will this cause any issues? Code: þ Award Decompression BIOS Modules Header CheckSum Status: ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ No. Item-Name CheckSum Calculated-CheckSum Address Status ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ 0 System BIOS 0Bh 0Bh 1h Correct 1 IA-32 Microcode AEh AEh 106FCh Correct 2 Other(6000:0000) C9h C9h 167F3h Correct 3 EPA pattern D0h D0h 1A665h Correct 4 LOGO BitMap DBh DBh 1A908h Correct 5 VRS ROM 14h 14h 1B3ABh Correct 6 Other(A800:0000) F0h F0h 1C667h Correct 7 Other(4045:0000) CFh CFh 1FB19h Correct 8 ACPI table 7Dh 7Dh 1FCB3h Correct ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ þ Award Decompression BIOS Main CheckSums Status: ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ No. Item-Name CheckSum Calculated-CheckSum Address Status ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ 0 System BIOS 7Ah 7Ah 106FAh Correct 1 IA-32 Microcode CFh CFh 167F1h Correct 2 Other(6000:0000) 3Eh 3Eh 1A663h Correct 3 EPA pattern 9Dh 9Dh 1A905h Correct 4 LOGO BitMap 12h 12h 1B3A9h Correct 5 VRS ROM 92h 92h 1C665h Correct 6 Other(A800:0000) 2Dh 2Dh 1F640h Correct 7 Other(4045:0000) ÄÄÄ BFh ÄÄÄÄÄÄ Absent 8 ACPI table ÄÄÄ 4Bh ÄÄÄÄÄÄ Absent ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
Has anyone tryed to replace, lets say the APCITBL (by hex editing the bios file) with a modded one that has a deferent compressed size ??
"On a dumy bios I've compressed the SLIC and the modded ACPITBL. On the remaining free space in your bios I added the SLIC module, calculated the offset and added the compressed ACPITBL." I had the chance to test a lot of different Award mods together with xfilez. He has got a programable EEPROM device You said you have compressed the SLIC? Which command did you use? If you compress SLIC it's not in clear text anymore. How do you call "SLIC"? You mean nocompress? You can modify ACPI table. After that you can insert it again. (compressed size is now larger) no problem. You can also move the modules, which are not interrupted by additional code. (BOOTBLOCK, AWARD DECOMPRESSION BIOS) You can modify Mainbios (add SLIC) and add it into a dummy bios: Cbrom182 dummy.bin /other 5000:0 main.bin (main bin is here original.tmp) After that you can re-insert it into the other bios even though is has got a larger compressed size. At old Award bioses you have to add the 8 bit checksum byte of each module as last byte to remain integrity. When you insert a module into a bios using cbrom, a copy of the compressed and formatted module will be created. Its name is always bios.rom. I use this copy to insert the modules to the bios I want to modify. No need to cut it out from the dummy bios. To decompress the modules, I cut it out, name it *.lha. Now you can decompress it using winrar. When you insert code, or a NEW module (hexediting), it will be not registered. The flash tool ignores it AND replaces it with FFh bytes. Short : To modify existing modules and to REPLACE them (even new size is larger) is no problem. To move them, no problem. (try to keep the order!) To insert new additional modules or code don't work. They are not listed at module info and not registered. They get lost during flash process. (at Award only. NOT at AMI) This is the reason why a SSV2 mod is not possible at Award bios, but AMI! These are my results trying several mods........ Hope they are useful. I'm trying to mod it as well My mod will follow! Be careful not to move other bios code than the modules.
Yen - Thanks. When you say "if the flash doesn't go wrong", do you mean that AWDFLASH will give an error or do you mean it'll flash ok, but it might brick the board? BTW, do you have a need for copy of the Dell M08 SLIC?
No, I think the flash will go OK and the mod won't brick the board. Flash it with your flashtool that comes with the original bios. The risk to flash my mod is the same as when you flash another original bios. Statistically 1 out of 100 flash processes goes wrong, even when you update a original bios. This was just for info. I only have Dell M07 and DELLB8K SLIC, yes, Dell M08 will be fine, thank you very much. @petar Enjoy