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

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Is it possible to modify the CPU microcode in the BIOS using this Phoenix SLIC Tool?

 

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note to moders,

Starting with Acer Aspire 5552G 2.13 and Acer TravelMate 5740 1.23 a new SLIC protection/activation have been put in place by ACER.

How to recognize these bios:

When AndyP tool pause at the end of bios dump, we can see that the tool inform of 2 empty modules.

View attachment 9529

8325948F-03E7-468E-96D8-7A8639AA8B54_1_738.ROM
and
A4E128E7-3D90-4BAA-B6C9-714C6B95AF40_1_741.ROM
in this example,
The name of modules may differ with the model.

8325948F-03E7-468E-96D8-7A8639AA8B54_1_738.ROM have a size of 156 octets and must be filled by ACER pubkey

Code:

00 00 00 00 9C 00 00 00 06 02 00 00 00 24 00 00
52 53 41 31 00 04 00 00 01 00 01 00 B3 6D 83 60
8D 83 65 6E E6 4B A7 6F 38 04 31 C1 E2 45 BF 34
66 1F 17 91 7F 5C 15 12 B7 01 4D 57 6D 8E AE 6B
E4 CC F8 A0 E1 BB 79 FF 08 53 E3 77 E7 D4 70 5E
5C EF 6F 81 DD 1B 5F 30 E2 99 9B B9 D0 93 46 AB
D8 17 7A E0 F0 A7 4C 32 D4 91 86 BA A1 6C A2 3C
73 CF 86 2D 95 9A 06 50 F3 F7 7E 06 5B 5E 27 66
01 3A 31 9F 0C B1 91 96 49 5C CC 81 BA 77 32 52
B2 10 5D 5B CA DE 9D 25 90 95 F7 97

A4E128E7-3D90-4BAA-B6C9-714C6B95AF40_1_741.ROM have a size of 182 octets and must be filled by ACER marker

Code:

01 00 00 00 B6 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 41 43 52 53
59 53 41 43 52 50 52 44 43 54 57 49 4E 44 4F 57
53 20 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 49 90 AC 34 3B 98 88 52 62 2C
FB 25 A8 A9 A0 7D 2D 12 70 EE D5 9A 7C CF 0C 83
B4 29 1B 55 3B 88 A5 F7 E6 29 A9 2C E7 17 5D 7A
EE 38 4D 27 E0 A9 69 7C FC 20 4A 68 0B 5D 83 AD
E5 D6 6E 49 C1 66 28 E4 D4 CE 72 64 A1 7C BE 93
AD 64 32 DA CC 72 24 47 FE B4 97 87 01 55 A0 5D
2F EF 06 93 E8 87 84 59 D3 9B 25 53 27 E7 CA 75
65 CF 0E 40 C9 3B AA 03 F2 83 7E 27 E7 CA 47 A4
4B 1F C5 77 DF 8C

These 2 modules are in a protected zone of bios, platform.ini must be modify as follow:

[ForceFlash]
ALL=1

and option /all must also be used for flas**t DOS utility.

Hope that will help.

 

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Let's go for this new feature, thanks for offer.

 

Uefi Partition

I flashed a patched bios rom into my asus p8p67 evo board and after installing windows 7 x64 and doing the usual activation procedure, everything worked fine. So I decided to wipe windows 7 x64 and reinstall using the uefi installation method which adds a uefi system partition at the start of my HDD. after everything installed, I tried to activate and windows wont activate, my toolkit just says that the slic in the bios is wrong. I'm assuming this is caused because the ACPI table is now on the HDD in that uefi partition and it no longer has the patch that my bios rom has. I decided to retest w/o uefi partition install and it still works. So my question is, does anyone know if there is a way to get windows activated while running windows with a uefi partition?

 

Nevermind to my last post. I just figured out what went wrong. Apparently you must grap a RW everything file from the windows with the efi installation for it to activate correctly. So if you mod in non uefi windows it will only activate not uefi windows.

 

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I have successfully modded the Asrock z68 pro3-m bios 1.20 using the methods described here and using the fantastic phoenix tool. There are some tricky steps I have to spend time to figure out but it works in the end.