I have been using a BIOS mod by str8 [1] for my Acer Aspire 6935G for about two months and older BIOS mods before that, too. (Everest confirms it's modded with SLIC 2.1.) It worked perfectly with 7x64 RTM Ultimate. Until yesterday. Now I am being bombarded with "This copy of Windows is not genuine." I've tried re-flashing the BIOS and re-entering the same and other product keys, to no avail. It constantly reports "Error Code: 0xC004F059 - The Software Licensing Service reported that a license in the computer BIOS is invalid." Is it known what suddenly causes this? Some new update, perhaps? More importantly, is a fix for this known - aside from "soft-modding"? Thanks! [1]: This one: forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/7033-Insyde-bios-mod-requests.?p=261690#post261690 My Windows Update history back to 23.06.: edit: Apparently something caused the certificate to become invalid - after I used slmgr.vbs -ilc to reinstall the same one, it has gone back to reporting that it is genuine. I just hope it stays that way...
I am aware that there are software-based workarounds. However, this does not answer what is causing this - which may become a deeper issue. (And frankly, I'd like to stay with the "cleaner" bios mod solution.)
You should use odin. Its brilliant even if you dont like softmod. The idea on how it uses a driver on startup is genius.
Maybe that will become the only way to get around this, but until then, I'd very much prefer to find out how this has come about.
Honestly. How do you think a bios mod is cleaner than any other softmod created by other awesome and trusted people on this forum.
It uses no additional software, especially no drivers. Don't get me wrong, I still very much appreciate the hard work others have put into them.
Maybe you should in to the bios section and ask for some help. There will be people who are specialised in the bios area.
Ok, done ( forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/20519-Used-Insyde-bios-mod-for-months-now-Windows-7-reports-quot-not-genuine-quot ).
The Acer/Gateway/Packard Ultimate one (FJGCP-...). I've tried others too, it keeps reporting 0xC004F059.
It is probably something wrong with his installation of Windows , if he had been activated for months then the BIOS is most likely fine. And yeah, loaders install a driver and load them on each startup.. BIOS mod doesn't have to.
Yes, I have re-flashed. The error comes after Windows Activation has finished checking the newly entered product key.
I wonder about that, too. It's very strange, all changes to software that I've done lately were but updates.
Now this is crazy. I've just used slmgr.vbs -ilc to reinstall the very same certificate (particularly as there is only one known for Acer) I used over a year ago when I had 7 freshly installed. Low and behold, Windows has returned to reporting that it is activated. So apparently something caused the certificate to become corrupted or deleted.