Hello, Sorry in advance if my question has already been replied, but I did not read all the 115 pages 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
It already contains NEC SLIC 2.0. So choose 'Yes' for the first prompt, select 'Other' from the manufacturer list & mod using Dynamic method.
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