Andy, Please upload v2.05 to another site. SendSpace is stopping the download at 80%. LimeLinx.com would be best. Thanks.
Andy, Please upload v2.05 to another site. SendSpace is stopping the download at 80%. LimeLinx.com would be best. Thanks.
No I'm not. The screenshot from the modded EFI now I can add is this, with the table size equal zero. View attachment 15615 Another screenshot from the modded EFI now with different size View attachment 15627 As you can see the unknown table has different values, although the memory address is the same
seems Dell is aware of this tool, tried to patch an optiplex 990 bios (any version) as by default it has NO slic table in the BIOS of these machines. Phoenix tool fails with msg HDR cannot be extracted. Now I noticed this latest Dell method uses a single exe which does NOT extract any temp files, the exe itself is digitally signed, and loads straight from the exe into some temp memory area of the bios, and flashes the bios at reboot. There is some info on the net to use firmware A02 and use a specific asset tag ("31/12"), but when trying to downgrade from A07 to A02, the BIOS flasher said "this bios revision is blacklisted" and aborted!!! Since then it was impossible to flash to any BIOS (it showed A02 but was seemingly incomplete flash), and windows failed to start. I had to use an asset tag wiper (DOS tooL) from Dell to wipe this 31/12 string. Since then I was able to start windows again and upgrade the bios to A13 without an issue. So it seems Dell is definitely closing SLIC backdoors and blacklisting tricks to OEM activate Windows!
I am getting an error trying to flash the bios with the provided tool (hp compaq) insydeflash.exe I get an error about a wrong or missing digital signature, anyone has solved this???
As I understand the Dell Optiplex 990 comes with Windows7, so why do you need to patch the bios? Or am I completely wrong?
The SLIC table is hidden if you buy the machine with Linux Search the forum for the tools/info how to unhide it sebus
Shamus talks about the Asset tag, so I think he already tried that. I have a DellBiosReset.iso, but I don't know if that one still works with newer machines.
I believe it is possible to extract the bios from the exe (in fact the phoenix tool leaves the raw bios .hdr in the creation directory, or run the bios exe with the -writehdrfile switch and it will do it for you. Then you can use an alternative flashing program with it. Also, I have read that asset.com or exe is being phased out and there are new programs taking their place. I would check around (search) the forum for those.
the machine came without an OS, so no SLIC table present I have not found anything on the web how to unhide the SLIC table other than this blacklisted A02 BIOS that cannot be flashed anymore. If Sebus could point me in the right direction that would be grateful. the -writehdrfile switch no longer exists, it will simply ignore it. The only switches left are to make it silent, nothing else That is also why phoenixtool cannot handle this exe, it will complain about "invalid switches" when trying to run the exe to unpack it and error out. the asset tag wiper tool was from 2005 for a poweredge SC430 and still works on machines from 2012, kinda cool