You should visit chinese site and translate for your own pdf guides. You could try but I can tell you, you'll find a lot of difficulties. Anyway vistafans is your start.
Anyway I am not sure I can do it all by myself as the translations (chinese to english) are not very accurate and as i am a bit lost in the vistafans forums ... What about my bios ? Did you manage to do something with it ?
If you're referring to A7V8X-X bios on previous page, which is already modded, try it. If it doesn't work I'll mod it for you.
Modded bios has no influence with anti-wga of windows XP. Anyway this is what you've to do in order to check if all went fine. 1) Install Everest Ultimate (even Trial will do the job) 4.00 2) Open it, go to "Motherboard" section. 3) You'll notice ACPI voice, click on it and you'll see on your right ACPI table list. 4) Look at the tables and if you have RSDT and SLIC with OEM ID _ASUS_ and OEM Type ID Notebook you're ok and if you install Windows Vista you'll be able to activate it.
Here's my Everest log file, I don't see the SLIC section as you said before ??? --------[ ACPI ]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ APIC: Multiple APIC Description Table ] ACPI Table Properties: ACPI Signature APIC Table Description Multiple APIC Description Table Memory Address 6FFFC058h Table Length 90 bytes OEM ID ASUS OEM Table ID A7V8X-X Creator ID MSFT [ BOOT: Simple Boot Flag Table ] ACPI Table Properties: ACPI Signature BOOT Table Description Simple Boot Flag Table Memory Address 6FFFC030h Table Length 40 bytes OEM ID ASUS OEM Table ID A7V8X-X Creator ID MSFT [ DSDT: Differentiated System Description Table ] ACPI Table Properties: ACPI Signature DSDT Table Description Differentiated System Description Table Memory Address 6FFFC126h Table Length 10771 bytes OEM ID ASUS OEM Table ID A7V8X-X Creator ID MSFT [ FACP: Fixed ACPI Description Table ] ACPI Table Properties: ACPI Signature FACP Table Description Fixed ACPI Description Table Memory Address 6FFFC0B2h Table Length 116 bytes OEM ID ASUS OEM Table ID A7V8X-X Creator ID MSFT [ FACS: Firmware ACPI Control Structure ] ACPI Table Properties: ACPI Signature FACS Table Description Firmware ACPI Control Structure Memory Address 6FFFF000h Table Length 64 bytes [ RSD PTR: Root System Description Pointer ] ACPI Table Properties: ACPI Signature RSD PTR Table Description Root System Description Pointer Memory Address 000F5E20h Table Length 36 bytes OEM ID ASUS [ RSDT: Root System Description Table ] ACPI Table Properties: ACPI Signature RSDT Table Description Root System Description Table Memory Address 6FFFC000h Table Length 48 bytes OEM ID ASUS OEM Table ID A7V8X-X Creator ID MSFT
How did you flash your bios ???? I hope without Asus Update (you should flash from dos or ez-flash if you have)
Try with aflash. If it doesn't show you SLIC tables you can't activate vista (and I can't do any other mod to it) except using paradox loader.