It's got me stumped, I've done many Dell's and can't get this one to work safely. I'm sure Andy will have a solution when he comes on.
Why did You use Alienware SLIC? Is it important? I noticed that Depot SLIC activates Intel BIOS and others - not. How can I choose correct version?
You can use any Slic 2.1. These 4 modules must be patched: - SystemAcpiSupportDxe (506533A6-E626-4500-B14F-17939C0E5B60_1_392.ROM) - SystemSlp2Dxe (3AE53353-D092-4B60-A3E2-C4B34CA0F9BA_1_402.ROM) - SystemTableLoaderDxe (166318EF-BEB7-48CA-95F7-3092BDF83B36_1_387.ROM) - PADDING-00170048_0_917.ROM
Thanks Phrunt ... it's weird, I've done others successfully, I've no idea what's different about the D505 ... As you say, hopefully Andy will be able to shed some light ...
It has been modded before, maybe pvt msg one of the ones who has a modded one and see if they'll email you the bios. Back when it was modded it looks like phoenix tool did it so it's probably a matter of finding the right version, some changes in the tool sometimes damage being able to mod a certain bios for the greater good, one bios mod now doesn't work, 100's of others do... seems to happen from time to time.
That's what I thought, which is why I tried it with a versions 1.42, 1.98 and 2.14, and a number of different Dell 2.1 SLIC bin files, but no joy It seems to change certain parts of the BIOS, for instance changes the marker (I think) from a CPi R to a QA09, which is what's mentioned in the SLIC bin; it also writes a section containing the word SLIC, but I guess it must be in the wrong format ... unfortunately I'm not much good at hex editors so I can't get much more information out of it than that ... Do you think Andy would mind if I PM'd him?
Wanna say some useful things there, hope you can add it at top. If you mod ASUS newer laptop(2012year and>)BIOS with PhoenixTool and flasher don't want to flash it, don't try to flash it with some other AMI tools, you can brick your PC, so only BIOS programmer can help you to reanimate.(forgot bricked pc models). And if your Phoenix or Insyde BIOS have 2 or more slics inside(2.0,2.1), bur after flashing you have only one(2.0), the same, don't try to mod it with PhoenixTool, 100% you will brick your PC, no way to use cisis disk, only programmer flash!(tryed on eMachines E725, fujitsu stylistic tablet)!!! Be careful!