hmm... not sure what's up here. Reflashed and reapplyed the cert and key and still I have no activation. I get "cert installed successfully" and "key installed successfully", but still no activation even after restart. 3 questions... 1) because I had to manually erase the whole BIOS chip and reprogram it due to the brick, I lost some data points like "serial number" etc in the BIOS display, would/could this effect the activation via BIOS 2) I'm using an HP cert and key that I obtained here a while back... any problems or black listing? 3)finally, I assume this modded BIOS is using the HP info and not the Asus or something?
I've tried appling the Cert a few times... so I assume it's getting invalid due to either a bad cert (I've tried two, both I got here) or perhaps the issue with the "marker" in the BIOS? time for sleep, will check this in about 12hrs
I don't understand why to flash an untested biosmod instead an already confirmed working biosmod .... I check ALWAYS if a biosmod has been done before, I think you could do the same .... Keep in mind that this has nothing to do with the respect I have for you I have the utmost respect for you and all other forum's users.
That which worked successfully on one machine, does not always work for another, and sometimes leads to a brick. I came across this several times. I was also tested mod 09/09/2011. I posted it. Probably it will work.