Somehow I never got an email to tell me I had a reply to this post, only other threads. Sorry for the late THANKYOU. I found out ASRock use a modified (crippled?) version of AMI BIOS, so none of the MSDOS DMI tools will work. I tried all of them, DMICFG, AMIDEDOS, etc. All give a stupid error number then "!it is PNP Function, bnot supported, blah blah blah). I'll try the hexedit method and reprogram the firmware with my Willem 4.1 EEPROM programmer.
ok, not sure if I need to 1) Edit the 3A0F4 address in the bios.rom file. OR 2) Extract the 1B module from original bios.rom file with MMTOOL (uncompressed), edit with HEXEDIT, then import the edited 1B module back in (replace), then save the modded bios.rom file. Thanks, EMFI2R
Incase anyone cares, I'm doing this for my friend who is blind. It's impossible for him to install windows if he has to type in the key and all the other info, when I can just burn him a SLP CDROM that does the OEM Preinstall with all his user info integrated.
Update on how I made my own mod to my friends ASRock P4V88 BIOS (for SLP and SLIC2.1) with BIOS version 1.40 So far it works with XP SP3. I used method 2 from my last post. I extracted the 1B module from the BIOS file (version 1.4 read off the chip with an EPROM programmer) with MMTOOL (uncompressed), used HEXWORKSHOP to edit address 3A0F4, then imported and saved it (which also correctred the checksum in the bootrom). I ran the new bios file through AMITOOL161, SLP 2.1 as ASROCK and EMACHINES SLP text file. Funny thing, original file and downloaded file (same version) from ASRock had the bootrom checksum error with AMITOOL, but the file I edited with MMTOOL was fine. I believe MMTOOL moddified the whole BIOS file so the checksums were corrected. Cool! MGA Notification in the system tray went away, and running "MGADIAG.EXE says "GENUINE" now. Thanks for the help people!
thank you for the reply. the problem turned out to be a buggy acpi impementation. when I turned that off the error dissappered. Thank you. A side note, I am still having trouble trying to get whs to activate. whith your bios mod i can see the hp slic table. i created a whs disc with the oem bios files however it still is asking to activate. I am sorry if this is the wrong thread i will move it if needed. Thank you.