so, one problem solved, now a new one. everest reported a wrong motherboard, it wasn't an albatron, but an Jetway. There the Bios size was 256kbytes and i was able to mod it and flash it. so the next problem occured, HWDirect won't dump my memory See the attachment for the error that occured. I also tried the alternative from the biostools post, but that didn't work out, as i can't find the RSDT or SLIC part. Any suggestions with this? Help appreciated edit: hwdirect doesn't seem to work on any pc. everywhere i get this error, either xp or vista, either this pc or another. is there anything that i forgot to activate?