I renamed the modded bios from NET5_SLIC.27 to SLIC.BIN and flashed with awdflash with a USB flash drive. The BIOS shows as being updated to 5.27 from 5.16. The SLIC is still 2.0. I checked it with both RW-Everything and SLIC-Toolkit. Windows is activated with Microsoft Toolkit and I have not inserted the certificate or key yet.
I cannot flash the official 5.27 bios first. The only bios on the HP site is the 5.27 Vista bios. The PC I am trying this on has a dual boot of Win 7 and XP. I tried the official bios in both but got a message that it did not meet the minimum requirements. I believe it will only work with Vista.
Renamed the NET5.27 bios SLIC.bin, booted to flash drive and ran awdflash with the SLIC.bin. I then did the same thing with the modded bios and I still show SLIC 2.0.
I just ran the awdflash with some extra switches that were in the instructions, awdflash xxx.bin /cc/cd/cp/py/R. I am now showing SLIC 2.1. I inserted the certificate and key and I am now showing "Windows is Activated" Thanks for your time and patience.