Tool to Insert/Replace SLIC in Phoenix / Insyde / Dell / EFI BIOSes

Discussion in 'MDL Projects and Applications' started by andyp, Nov 26, 2009.

  1. ELVEON

    ELVEON MDL Novice

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    -Motherboard Manufacturer and Model : ASUS P8P67
    -Bios Revision : 0804
    -Bios Type : EFI AMI BIOS
    -Bios SLIC: ASUS
    -Bios Link : dl.dropbox.com/u/4928793/P8P67-ASUS-0804.zip
    -Rw-everything ACPI report: dl.dropbox.com/u/4928793/AcpiTbls.rw

    I try dynamic mode. When creating BIOS away message "No complete SLIC table found. Continue?". But the bios set up.
    Module work too.
     
  2. allegro16

    allegro16 MDL Novice

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    At my WeTab (see a few messages back), dynamic didn't work. It has added the new SLIC but it doesn't show somehow in Windows. SSV2 fails, module worked (added a second SLIC as far as the tool told me)
    Worked at an older BIOS and activated, so tried a newer bios. Didn't start properly after that, and i have an all black screen at boot.
    There should be a recovery mode or something, but no one seems to know how that works on Ami Aptio EFI boards..
    After i bootup it appears to look for something on the flashdrive, but none of the AMIBOOT.ROM variants do anything. Even with autoexec, etc.

    So, i would advice you to wait until there is a solution for Ami Aptio bioses..
     
  3. molder

    molder MDL Junior Member

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    Hi, I tried it for the Asus P8P67 Pro but I can't continue because my motherboard lays there with no cpu. So I can't make a rweverything file.
    But here is how it looks till I need the file:
    View attachment 7985 View attachment 7986
     
  4. anmg

    anmg MDL Senior Member

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    Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...
  5. andyp

    andyp SLIC Tools Author

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    There is a parsing bug for this BIOS. Fixed but will have to wait until can get somewhere with broadband to upload new version.

    Hopefully tomorrow night

    Andy
     
  6. zdoe

    zdoe MDL Novice

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    dell vostro 3xxx - how to force bios downgrade

    all googling about bios mods leads to MDL...

    dear andyP & al - my dilemma may be simpler than most - currently i just need to force a downgrade of bios on my new laptop to disable the hybrid video that prevents the lap from working with winxp, osx & linux - 70% of OS by usage statistics.

    but the dell bios .EXEs don't allow downgrade.

    the bios is efi/insyde as reported by phoenixtool.

    tried phlash16 - ng - i guess it doesn't like insyde.

    tried DCCU - it says that the .EXE is not right & doesn't create a new package.

    what next?

    cheers in advance.
     
  7. andyp

    andyp SLIC Tools Author

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    New version.

    Andy
     
  8. RaduznyKuDeSnik

    RaduznyKuDeSnik MDL Novice

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    Andy, I just tried to slic bios, provided by ELVEON and got some run time error (it was on my native russian language and I provide my translation): "Error 5: Offset and length are out of array bounds or counter value exceed element count from pointer to end of source collection". Program log shows nothing bad, it last lines are:

    Finished
    Tiano module compression method used
    SLIC module size is 374 bytes
    The SLIC checksum has been corrected to 0
    OEM Activation 2.1 SLIC
    Parsing RW Everything report for OEM/Table IDs
    RSDT OEM/Table ID is ALASKAA M I
    FACP OEM/Table ID is ALASKAA M I
    APIC OEM/Table ID is ALASKAA M I
    SSDT OEM/Table ID is AMICPUPROC
    MCFG OEM/Table ID is ALASKAA M I
    HPET OEM/Table ID is ALASKAA M I
    DSDT OEM/Table ID is ALASKAA M I
    OEM/Table IDs identified are:
    1. ALASKAA M I
    2. AMICPUPROC
    SLIC header found in A1902AB9-5394-45F2-857A-12824213EEFB_1_263.ROM at 1494
    Marker found in A1902AB9-5394-45F2-857A-12824213EEFB_1_263.ROM at 1554
    'SLIC' string found in A1902AB9-5394-45F2-857A-12824213EEFB_1_263.ROM at 1494
    ** 'SLIC' string found in A1902AB9-5394-45F2-857A-12824213EEFB_1_263.ROM at 1494 replaced
    'SLIC' string found in A1902AB9-5394-45F2-857A-12824213EEFB_1_263.ROM at 14A7
    ** 'SLIC' string found in A1902AB9-5394-45F2-857A-12824213EEFB_1_263.ROM at 14A7 replaced
    OEM/Table IDs identified are:
    1. ALASKAA M I
    2. AMICPUPROC
    3. A M I OEMSLIC
    ALASKAA M I string found in 3FD1D3A2-99F7-420B-BC69-8BB1D492A332_0_289.ROM at 45
    ** ALASKAA M I string found in 3FD1D3A2-99F7-420B-BC69-8BB1D492A332_0_289.ROM at 45 replaced

    Check it on files provided by ELVEON:
    -Bios Link : dl.dropbox.com/u/4928793/P8P67-ASUS-0804.zip
    -Rw-everything ACPI report: dl.dropbox.com/u/4928793/AcpiTbls.rw
     
  9. andyp

    andyp SLIC Tools Author

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    Only occurs if RW report used. Fixed in 1.68
    Thanks for letting me know

    Andy

     
  10. uncleraven

    uncleraven MDL Novice

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    Andy, now everything is okay. Thank you.
     
  11. Loxxx

    Loxxx MDL BIOS/EFI Modifier

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    Andy! Your new tool 1.68 is almost flawless. However, in 9F3A0016-AE55-4288-829D-D22FD344C347_1_34.ROM
    vestige remained ALASKAA M I. You can fix this?
    View attachment 8013
     
  12. andyp

    andyp SLIC Tools Author

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    Probably not needed
    But untick only alter RSDT and XSDT tables in advanced and it will mod it.

    Andy

     
  13. andyp

    andyp SLIC Tools Author

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    New version. Some dynamic mods on EFI might fail as SLIC incompletely identified.

    Andy
     
  14. Loxxx

    Loxxx MDL BIOS/EFI Modifier

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    Asus p8p67 pro. One brick is. phoenixtool169. Method SSv2.:(