Nicely Said Others were saying similar, but none where about SP2 specifically and were old threads. also because theres a lot of new abouts SP1 and now SP2 trying to take out known bypasses i thought i should ask specifically about SP2.
It will still be there if you flashed the unmodded version of the same bios. If you flashed a different bios there's a chance the modules would be different sizes and that the key/marker would be overwritten. You could always add key/marker to the new bios before flashing though.
wow thats really cool that it will stay there even if re-flashed (with same ver). I'm going to check out that link/method you provided AndyP I just used the pre-requested bios of the bios i was trying to mod and it was really scary but it worked great, thanks goes out to all you guys would be really nice to learn how to do this so i can just reflash to whatever i want when ocing/testing heh It was also a little confusion seen "phoenix award" didn't know which method to go for thats for clearing that up I also read on the net the phoenix and award merged but that didn't really clear anything up.
Please post in Award tool thread, this is the AMI one!! Anyway, yes it appears there is a valid ASUS SLIC in this BIOS. You should see a SLIC in Everest/ACPIScope and vista should activate fine with the correct key and certificate. Don't worry about the checksum warning. Most modern BIOSes do not actually use the checksum field, but the tool has no specific way of knowing that. No mod needed!! Cheers, Andy
ASUS SLIC is fine for testing. Can slictool be used to ONLY insert SLP 1.0 into this BIOS? Or can I do it by hand using AMIBCP313 & editing BIOS Features / OEM DATA & add ASUS_FLASH ? Thanks sebus
Just a side note. I installed Vista 64 SP2. And I am still "genuine". How about that! Thanks again andyp. Now back to our regularly scheduled thread.
New version v1.10 ADD: Ability to replace SLIC in FC module ADD: Ability to recognise a valid SLIC in an FC (or any Fx module) ADD: Option to place SLIC in NVRAM area for SSV2 method (now NVRAM area is recognised) ADD: Removing config lock is now an option for the dynamic method FIX: Not properly recognise NVRAM area FIX: Not properly recognise non-image ROM holes FIX: Error that in some rare circumstances a SLIC could be placed in a ROM hole for SSV2 method FIX: When loading subsequent BIOSes appropriate options not selected FIX: Some options do not have tooltips Enjoy Andy