@ioftro, Just FYI, you dont necessarily need a usb floppy to either flash or recover your bios. Look in the bios mods sub-forum, you'll get all the information you need.
I'm running a homebrew computer with an Asus MB, I couldn't find an ASUS cert that matched an Asus slic. I did find both, but when I went to verify with award tool I couldn't find any that matched. Ended up with a Dell cert and slic for bios mod. Searched for a couple of hours.
Because the person who created the mod bios used a Dell certificate. How would I mod bios to ASUS certificate? I am using ASUS P5 Deluxe 'Bios 1406'.
Download a bios file from Asus and use a bios tool from the bios forums. Sounds simple but I couldn't find any that matched in asus, but plenty of other slic /cert s that match. Asus does tend to be an easy flash though.
I had one of the first loaders installed by Hazor (i think his 5th or 6th release or something) I installed WAT, it didnt the pass genuine test. I installed the latest Windows 7 Loader with everything Dell (to match my system) restarted still wasnt genuine. Ran the 30 day re-arm, just to give me some more time, but now windows says im genuine???? is that going to go away after the 30 days?
My Windows 7 Ultimate system got slower after I changed to a faster Core 2 Duo CPU and I couldn't figure out why since the motherboard supported even faster and later versions plus my operating system is very bare. No rubbish in the system tray. SO .............. I thought, 'Why not format and reinstall Windows 7?' BUT before that, why not install the WAT update and see what happens since it's a Zotac motherboard with Dell SLIC, SLP, certificate and OEM product key. Passed ............. for now but I'm still going to do a format.
All you actually had to do was after installing good key/loader, was revalidate either online or at command prompt: %SystemRoot%\system32\Wat\WatAdminSvc.exe /run
FYI, found these supported command line switches in WatAdminSvc.exe Code: /regserver /unregserver /Embedding /run /run /I /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Activation Technologies\ValidationTask"