I don't get it! This are two different kinds of licenses. If you'll install a retail version you have to use the retail key provided with it and you must activate against M$. After applying the OEM certificate you changed the lincense from retail to SLP2.0. Now you have to activate against SLIC of bios. A SLP2.0 license doesn't accept retail keys and vice versa. You can check what license model is used with slmgr -dli command. Why don't you use your retail version and activate against M$ using YOUR purchased key? M$ is able to read your license model. If it is a SLP activation they'll know that you have activated against SLIC in bios. BTW: Your whole bios is mapped into RAM for execution. You don't have a way to prevent that. (Except not to switch on your PC) Yen
a snapshot from asus ftp : P5W-DH-ASUS-Deluxe-2302.zipWinRAR ZIP archive689 KB2007-10-08 12:06:00 P5W_DH_Deluxe_QVL.zipWinRAR ZIP archive90 KB2007-05-17 05:18:00 See the other date ? it's in yyyy-mm-dd format and not in yyyy-dd-mm So the bios date is 8th Oct 2007... that's why I asked my question - how could it be, that the slic modified 2302 bios was released nearly a month ago
I've downloaded both the original 2302 & the one posted "yesterday".... and after a binary comparison... they are identical. So it just looks like Asus only decided to put it up on their ftp yesterday for some reason.
thanks BiosButcher just was my curiosity - propably this was an internal 'leak' of bios and after testing it for stability and features they released it on ftp for others. a pity they don't attach changelogs
@t-hair703 I'd like to give it a try (I'm still new to modding bioses* in order to bring a smile to peoples face ), but your ftp directory isn't working [error404]. Try rapidshare or else... * so no promises