Thank you - This worked! Why did changing to an Asus SLIC fix it?? I have used the Dell SLIC before and it worked before. ??
Yes, I am aware of that and I could try it but I wonder what will happen if you change DSA option in modded BIOS? Do you get correct or corrupted ACPI table afterwards? What I am saying is that those BIOS-es have dynamically generated ACPI tables due to DSA option registering its entry in ACPI table or not depending on its enable/disable status. SLIC mod can insert it into table before or after DSA entry is added by the BIOS (I am not sure when SLIC setting occurs relative to BIOS setting DSA). BIOS might expect to find certain ACPI table format/size for DSA option insertion so depending on the order of execution SLIC mod could potentially break this option or changing DSA option could corrupt ACPI table changed by SLIC mod. I just want to be sure everything will work.
AFAIK, you can only flash modded bios (using Dynamic method) through USB Flashback to override the security verification. But your mobo doesn't support USB Flashback. So you should use permanent mod using MMTool.
Hi I will try and look at some of these when I get a sec. Unfortunately I have a new job and for the time being work has taken over. I did look at the Asus Z87 - I can't see any missing modules in the gaps. I will look and see what the MMTool mod did differently. I have reproduced bandasi's issue. Will look when I can. Thanks Tito and others for supporting people here. Cheers Andy
HI ! Today I bought my new Gigabyte GA-P85-D3 board. Its intel B85 with 1150 CPU socket. Tried to insert SLIC 2.1 by phoenix tool 2.14. It detected bios type as Insyde bios. Also tried unchecking "only ..." checkboxes in advanced option. Bios flashes correctly but SLIC table is absent. Anybody had any luck on recent gigabyte motherboard ? Update : saved bios after flushing and compared with the image i tried to upload. They has many mismatches. After flushing PC turned on, beeped, turned off, turned on and booted. It seems some verification fails and backup bios activates (remember - gigabyte has dual bios technology)