Okay, this is what I've been able to fish out using ACPIScope: Code: SLIC Physical address: 7F6DDE8Ah Length: 374 Signature: 'SLIC' Length: 176h Revision: 1 Checksum: 38h OEM ID: 'ACRSYS' OEM Table ID: 'ACRPRDCT' OEM Revision: 6040000h Creator ID: 'acer' Creator revision: 0 The notebook came with Linux pre-installed.
You should be able to activate with ACER cert and serial..Either during install with oem method, or after with slmgr..
Thanks for your help, 911. Now if someone could only confirm if the aformentioned ISO image is an authentic MSDN release. Do you think I should post it as a separate thread? Thanks again.