New Award BIOS tool for performing SLIC Insertion/Modification

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  1. Nestor

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    #1141 Nestor, Apr 8, 2013
    Why cant I open the slic path window when choosing the "other" manufacrurer?
     
  2. Tito

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    #1142 Tito, Apr 8, 2013
    What is the bios file??
     
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    #1143 Nestor, Apr 9, 2013
    When i tried an epson slic for my epson bios.bin.
    No mod method can be chosen either...

     
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    #1144 Tito, Apr 9, 2013
    Can you give a link of the bios??
     
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    #1146 Tito, Apr 9, 2013
    Thanks for the report; it is definitely a bug which is present in v1.52 too.

    :g:
     
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    #1147 Nestor, Apr 12, 2013
    Thanks for your confirmation.
    Should i report this bug to someone else, btw?

     
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    #1148 Tito, Apr 12, 2013
    I think andyp should notice that as it is discussed in here.
     
  9. Serg008

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    #1149 Serg008, Apr 13, 2013
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    #1152 Dragoz001, Sep 19, 2013
    Hello,
    Sorry in advance if my question has already been replied, but I did not read all the 115 pages :p

    My problem concerns the main module shrink.
    I've read that note:
    Note - sometimes 0+2 will fail as the main module cannot be shrunk enough to compensate for the increase in ACPITBL size, best bet is SSV3 or OEM7 with ACPITBL at end.

    But when I load my BIOS (MS-7295 for NEC VL-360 v.148) I just can't choose SSV3 or OEM7, those options are grayed out.
    I tried to tweak the advanced options, the hack succeeds and creates a working BIOS, but it's not valid for activation.
    However I had some success with an older BIOS version. It's more for my personal culture and eventually to help other people that I'm asking.

    Many thanks for your help.
    Gilles
     
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    #1153 Tito, Sep 19, 2013
    Give us the link of the bios.
     
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    #1154 Dragoz001, Sep 19, 2013
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    #1155 Tito, Sep 19, 2013
    It already contains NEC SLIC 2.0. So choose 'Yes' for the first prompt, select 'Other' from the manufacturer list & mod using Dynamic method.
     
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    #1156 Dragoz001, Sep 19, 2013
    Hmmm.. that's what I did, and here's what I got:

    Version 1.53
    bDynamicForce - False
    iDynamicMethod - -1
    bASUSLock - False
    bSLICSize - True
    bManualAddress - False
    lManualAddress - 0
    bOEM7Force - False
    iOEM7Method - -1
    bSSV3Force - False
    iSSV3Method - -1
    bOnlySDT - False
    bCorrectDSDT - True
    bOEMIDOnly - True
    bIgnoreWarnings - False
    bBeforeUTS - False
    bCorrectWhole - True
    bPreserveWhole - False
    bCorrectModules - True
    bCorrectSB - True
    bUseLHA - False
    bRemoveMC - False
    bPreserveCPUID - False
    iCPUID - 0
    bAlterDSDT - False
    Original BIOS size 524288 bytes (512K)
    10000 Module free.BIN (5000) Compressed size 83271 Original size 131072
    2456C Module awardext.rom (407F) Compressed size 41956 Original size 63104
    2E978 Module CPUCODE.BIN (4001) Compressed size 968 Original size 8192
    2ED67 Module ACPITBL.BIN (4003) Compressed size 9301 Original size 27501
    311E3 Module AwardBmp.bmp (4002) Compressed size 642 Original size 5772
    3148D Module awardeyt.rom (400E) Compressed size 18978 Original size 65104
    35ED7 Module _EN_CODE.BIN (4029) Compressed size 10164 Original size 23248
    386B3 Module _ITEM.BIN (40B5) Compressed size 3326 Original size 8400
    393D6 Module _DMI.BIN (405D) Compressed size 4554 Original size 6864
    3A5C4 Module BSMICODE.ROM (4012) Compressed size 1490 Original size 54912
    3ABBE Module NVRAID.ROM (4086) Compressed size 28433 Original size 47104
    41AF5 Module NVPXES.NIC (4087) Compressed size 31986 Original size 61440
    4980D Module C51PVG0.ROM (4080) Compressed size 43604 Original size 61440
    54288 Module TPMMPDrv.rom (4014) Compressed size 2486 Original size 4305
    54C66 Module PMU.BIN (4013) Compressed size 1712 Original size 2991
    55339 Module AGESACPU.ROM (4067) Compressed size 4197 Original size 16310
    563C6 Module NEC_256.bmp (4000) Compressed size 6762 Original size 307980
    Padding pattern is 211
    Module free.BIN has a padding checksum of FFh
    Module and decompression block checksum is valid (1C - Start 10000 Length 5FFFE)
    Extra checksum valid
    First byte (LSB) checksum is valid
    Second byte (MSB) checksum is valid
    BIOS image sums to 0
    SLIC module size is 374 bytes
    SLIC module checksum is 0
    OEM Activation 2.1 SLIC
    Dynamic Method
    Using 0+2 adjustments for dynamic method
    0+2 Method
    RSDT table OEM and Table ID patched to DELL QA09
    DSDT table OEM ID patched to DELL
    DSDT checksum corrected (34)
    APIC table OEM ID patched to DELL
    HPET table OEM ID patched to DELL
    MCFG table OEM ID patched to DELL
    SLIC inserted at 1A8 in ACPI module
    SLIC table OEM ID patched to DELL
    FACP table OEM ID patched to DELL
    Dell System SLP 1.0 string added
    Main Module is 199 bytes too big
    Zero area 1
    Main Module is 155 bytes too big
    Zero area 2
    Main Module is 125 bytes too big
    Zero area 3
    Main Module is 87 bytes too big
    Zero area 4
    Main Module is 60 bytes too big
    Unable to shrink main module
     
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    #1157 diluxp, Dec 6, 2013
    please add support for slic.23
     
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    #1158 langman, Feb 13, 2014
    please give me Award Tool 1.47
     
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