It worked! Thanks a bunch. I do hope I did not waste your time with a question that had been answered earlier, since it seems like you've come across this issue before, but I was unable to locate an answer. As a side-note, I'm not sure what the policy is regarding this, so I will not be posting the modified BIOS here, but if anyone needs it just let me know. Exact model and P/N: Acer TravelMate 5740-372G25Mnss LX.TVF0C.067
You're right. I need to make it automatic in the tool... but it's a bit of an assumption for all acer bioses..... but it's a bit fiddly to code cause of the way its written... but if the default is bricking that's bad....... Andy
The default the tool selects is SSv2, actually, which just fails to insert an SLIC. And clearly states so. It's on knowing enough to try switching to Dynamic, but not enough to select "No SLIC" in Advanced that I ran into trouble! If it's written somewhere in these pages here, then it's fully my fault for not finding it and I apologize for wasting your time. That said, you're certainly right: it would be best if the tool bricked boards as little as possible. Even if that would mean it would fail to insert an SLIC. Ideally, I would imagine, the tool should only report success if the resulting BIOS a) will boot, b) has a functional SLIC and c) will boot! ;-) I will try to SLIC any other Acers I come across and report results. Unfortunately, that's not likely to be too many units: I don't come into contact with Acers too often, for whatever reason.
Lol. I wish that, too! But BIOS modding would be not much exciting anymore. Unfortunately BIOS is no software to debug / try in simulated environment.... @Andy Congrats to your baby.....
Hi Guys, I'm running into a problem when trying to add a 2.1 SLIC to my Lenovo S10e BIOS using version 1.62 of Andy's excellent tool. It would seem that my BIOSCOD06.ROM is ending up a few bytes too big. Here's the last few lines of the log file: CETP CETP string found split in BIOSCOD06.ROM at B22B B22F B229 B225 ** CETP CETP string found split in BIOSCOD06.ROM at B22B replaced New BIOSCOD01.ROM Module is 23 bytes too small ** BIOSCOD01.ROM reintegrated successfully New BIOSCOD06.ROM Module is 5 bytes too big New BIOSCOD06.ROM Module is 5 bytes too big BIOSCOD06.ROM not reintegrated Unable to reintegrate BIOSCOD06.ROM I'm happy to send the BIOS I'm trying to mod with my RWAnything report to someone if they want a closer look, but just thought I'd post in case there's an easy solution to this problem that some kind soul can point me towards! Many thanks! Graysters