It is best to cut and paste over code in existing modules than to just replace modules. Also the PBE is a notorious bios killer..be careful and know that no errors can still yield a bricked board. Have fun and be careful.
I agree, that's what I am actually doing - HEX cut & paste, not an actual module replace I agree with that as well, however this latest 2.2.1.3 version seems to be pretty stable. No report of bricked mobo as of yet
Thnx for reply but its really confusing as to how I should split. Can you tell me from which addresses should I split the SLIC file. (I will be inserting the Acer SLIC only & I have the Acer-no cert.BIN file)
Hi, Yes, RSDT infos was in BIOSCOD01.ROM, however, something went bad and now I blinked my Acer 5672 (I just included HPQ infos on BIOSCOD01 part, besides the other two know files), yes I triple checked, but PBE must be got mad on me and did that (sigh). Well, now I'm looking for a recovering procedure, if exists on MBs like Asus and Gigabyte, it might exists on Acer notebook too. Btw, my Acer Aspire 5672 uses a SST 39VF080 70-4C-EIE flash EEprom. So, be real careful with PBE. Gradius
I have a problem understanding what exactly I'm supposed to change in BIOSCOD01.ROM. The code looks like 52 53 44 54 00 00 00 00 01 00 41 43 52 53 59 53 20 20 52 53 44 54 -> RSDT . . . . . . ACRSYS RSDT. I'm trying to replace the original Acer slic 2.0 table to HP slic 2.1 looking like SLICv «HPQOEMSLIC-MPC HPQ œ $ RSA1 [«`V¼X èÁÒ¡\åO»ý ©Œ”´®ÜYÓö>‡1¹•tÚ;¤[µ‚|9× |"¬ *„é ˆmú±âØè!–á.hš¿DE><Ž™Þ78W ’¼Þÿò~µ@ŒQ:ÃHörûBxæGˆTÇ°ð“žû·¸¸ÞÛí2áûT¦ ¶ HPQOEMSLIC-MPCWINDOWS 0 ´¤¾€ é3ìü±(¦ÎCrŒy0´ôYê}Ï·‹ÚpÅÈ?y odʈ³±´ºñ…R±õUµpaïDŒª_xf˜œóXتHà7øö«dúÚ*bã 2-Õê3f\[;÷fB2ª™Ãîb;_ðHDÄæ2Y >ñ²8 and I don't understand what this RSDT . . . . . . ACRSYS RSDT part in BIOSCOD01.ROM is supposed to look like. Replacing Acpi5.rom with a renamed HP.bin is no problem and PBE builds new bios w/o errors or warnings. Can someone help? I have two alternatives 1/ RSDT . . . . . . HPQOEM RSDT 2/ RSDTHPQOEMSLIC-MPCRSDT
Rebuild without warnings or errors means little. You can still brick the machine very easily with Phoenix. Your two alternatives are incorrect. RSDT . . . . . . HPQOEMSLIC-MPC, this Is what you need.. Without knowing your experience and what you have read, I cannot comment further. Sorry.
So, just to sure, after the first occurence of the string RSDT leave six bytes as they are ( 00 00 00 00 01 00 ) overwrite with HPQOEMSLIC-MPC from A in ACRSYS on forwards?
What exactly is the RSDT descriptor? Definition and characteristics please. I just want to be able to locate and edit it