Happenstance. It means nothing and has nothing to do with the function of the tool. You are expected to have your own SLIC files, I believe he leaves them there for convenience and so you know what goes where. Dont worry about it...
The tool used to have Asus,Dell,MSI and HP SLICs - all 2.0. It now has Dell,MSI and HP 2.1 SLICS in the SLIC21 directory. They are fully backward compatible so there is no reason to include the old 2.0 SLICs. There is no 2.1 ASUS yet, but when there is I will just include the 2.1 ones. As 911medic said, I just include a few to make it simple. There are tons more. There was nothing wrong with them, just the old 2.0 SLICs won't activate windows 7. Andy
ATTN: Andy Just wanted to give you a heads up. I used your Award tool version 1.09 to upgrade my HP slic from 2.0 to 2.1 on my Vista x64 motherboard, it's a Gigabyte GA-MA780G-UD3H board by the way. I just wanted to let you know it worked like a charm, my Vista is still activated and I am ready for Windows 7!!! I clicked on "advanced options" and selected the EPA logo to be at the end and it worked perfectly, both logos display normally!!! Thank you for your hard work and keep it going, we need you.
This tool works great, even fixed my bad modded bios. I hex edited the original bios to unhide the -Power ON by Keyboard - [Any Key] option I was missing badly and ended up with "Recovering... Searching Hard Drives for BIOS Image..." and restarting in infinite loop. Disconnected all HDDs and the board recovered from the backup BIOS chip successfully. Using this great tool I inserted SLIC2.0 in the same bad bios image, the checksum was fixed and now all is good. Great work, Andy!
thank you for andyp Motherboard:abit kn9 sli Original bios version:m520a_23 mod tool:ver1.09 mod bios is words yeah!
Does it support editing of other information like Manufacturer, Model NO, Serial NO, etc. in a BIOS. Well, I'm just asking because the latest version of the BIOS that the manufacturer's techsupport gave me has Unknown system manufacturer, Unknown system model, and etc.
Do you need to run the tool and the bios you want to mod on the PC you want to mod the bios on or can you use any pc to run the tool and mod bios files
Hi andy thanks for the great tool. When I try to mod my notebook bios it always stop at "Module and decompression block checksum is invalid" If I click no it stop with status failure. If click yes it will continue with status success. At the log I see BIOS image does not sum to 0 SLIC performed successfully So the mod was success or fail.