As in subject. I need to downgrade several Olivetti machines from 8 Pro to 7 Professional. The computer is a Olivetti PA200-30B, mainboard ASRock B75M DASH. The BIOS has SLIC 2.1 (just dumped with SLIC Toolkit - see attachment). I don't want to reflash BIOS for two reasons: 1) I'm not authorized to modify the PC 2) Even if I was authorized, On the ASRock site the B75M DASH is... not existing! Any chance to find it? Thanks in advance, Leo.
Let me explain more precisely: I was authorized only in trying to downgrade the O.S., but leaving untouched the BIOS. It's only a momentary workaround for some web apps, still not IE10/11 compatible. In a few months, I'll return to 8 Pro. BIOS already have 2.1 SLIC, no need to update it. It requires only a matching XRM-MS certificate and a valid OEM product key.
BTW, I phoned M$, they told me that: I have all the rights to downgrade. To do so, I was instructed to: take a valid Windows 7 product key from a COA sticker coming from another PC (fortunately, I have dozens of such Windows 7 OA computers) insert that product key. So I did it, and activated my PC online. Next steps: SysPrep PC imaging Deployment over the other PCs
Just a pity you could not get Olivetti XRM-MS certificate then when you did image and deployed you would not need to activate every individual machine with OEM:COA NONE SLP key.
Yes, you're right! My hope is that deployed computers will activate online without too many problems. Today I restored SysPrep'ed system image on another computer. Everything O.K.; obviously, I had to re-enter OEM Product Key and execute on-line activation on the target computer.
Today I received a brand new Olivetti "Olibook" notebook! Windows 7 Professional (OEM activation). I'm going to backup the certificate, token.dat and product key.