New Vista OEM Activation Hack – Vista Boot by gkend Internet Censorship: The Country List
May 24

That’s another great tool by Gkend, created to easily add a SLIC table to an existing AMI Bios.

I will go more into details the upcoming days; however blow you will find a preview of it :)

The tool was used by Gkend to modify bios for other people, since he has not much time he decided to make it public.

This tool will automatically revise your Bios (add the SLIC), you can revise as much as you want.

How to use: (thanks to ztpkmn2006 for the English translation)
1. run mmtool.exe > click “LOAD ROM” button and load your original BIOS file.
2. in the module list(*or table) select 1B module > extract and save the file name as 1B.rom
3. run AMIOEMSLIC.exe > select 1b module file as 1B.ROM > select SLIC file as the OEM Brand you need > select your original BIOS file name and finally click “修改1b模块”button (the “revise 1b module” button) ,then click “替换到BIOS” ( “change to BIOS”)
4. and finished

(please take note to change your BIOS file’s read only attribute)

This is the original Chinese text:
最近还有许多人通过短消息或EMAIL要我修改AMI BIOS,我没有那么多时间应付,决定把以前写的这个自动修改工具公开算了,你自己想改什么就改什么。(你方便我省事)
使用说明:
1、运行mmtool.exe,点击“LOAD ROM”按钮,加载你的原始BIOS文件。
2、在模块列表中选择1B模块,然后extract,保存文件名为1B.rom
3、运行AMIOEMSLIC.exe,选择1b模块文件为1B.ROM;选择SLIC文件为你需要的OEM厂商;选择你的原始BIOS文件名,最后点击”修改1b模块”,再点击”替换到BIOS”完成。(注意修改你的BIOS文件的只读属性)

Download: AMI BIOS TOOL



55 Responses to “AMI Bios Tool by Gkend”

  1. fitterphil Says:

    i saw this over there too. but i figured that there would be a lot a question to answer. maybe turn xbios or the other guys over in the bios mod department onto this.

  2. alfonso Says:

    Apology for thick, this modyfies the AMI bin file? then u flash him back to chip? Wow

  3. stevejobs Says:

    that’s why i just keep it here, and don’t make a topic with it in the forum.

  4. Gabriele Says:

    so this involves modifying the BIOS? it can be dangerous

  5. _patrik_ Says:

    very interesting this - and for Award Bios?
    I hope that wil be possible as asoon as possible
    Thanks

  6. alexcd2k3 Says:

    Please Steve Jobs, i need (and all my friend) the same patch for award bios…
    Thanks Thanks Thanks

    Alex

  7. Mor Says:

    It Works!!!
    just tried with Lenovo certificate and it work like a charm
    thanks a lot…

  8. stevejobs Says:

    For those intrested, the webpage where you will find the tool and more information about it,

    >>>> http://www.vistafans.com/thread-147096-1-2.html

  9. stevejobs Says:

    Award Bios >>> http://www.vistafans.com/thread-134094-1-2.html

  10. Luko Says:

    Oh,its Chinese language!

  11. alexcd2k3 Says:

    Sorry Stevejob but in chinese language i dont understnd nothing…exit the AMIBIOS TOOL for award bios???
    Anyone post this?
    Please…
    Thanks !

  12. stevejobs Says:

    @alexcd2k3

    you can use google translate or babelfish to translate, the comments posted.
    the information posted with the tool itself, is already translated here ;)

  13. alexcd2k3 Says:

    Steve my dear friend i am italian…
    I have patch my gigabyte bios version F8 without problems, now i have a bios versio F9. The work for patch is the same=
    I see vistafans and i dont understand a new patch with ISA-VENDOR ..what is???
    Can u cintatc me in PM?

    TX

  14. stevejobs Says:

    @alexcd2k3

    i’m not chinese too,.. try below link, maybe somebody can do the bios mobo for you or yours is already done:

    http://keznews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6198
    http://keznews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2269

    they guys doing bios mobo here and in other places did learn from vistafans,… so they will know.

  15. alexcd2k3 Says:

    Ok, sorry for mt insistent post…
    Thanks for help me.
    Bye
    Alex

  16. Горец Says:

    >> text was deleted by the blog admin, because it was not posted in english or no english translation was provided. SJ

  17. boggler Says:

    It would be nice if an English version were released.

  18. SomeNewBie Says:

    I am new to this thing. I do read the instruction provided. I am a bit blur. So, I haven`t use this tool yet.

    Does the final product of this tool is a modded BIOS which I will need to flash it to my MOBO? Or just follow the instruction and the SLIC table is permanently added to the BIOS without the need to flash?

    Thanks :)

  19. colinzim Says:

    I am trying to modify (Intel) AMI BIOS with ‘AMI Bios Tool ‘ and the program is looking for a ‘.rom’ file. My bios file is in ‘.bio’ format. Is there a way to extract it to get the ‘1b.rom’ file or does it work with Intel ami bios ?

  20. gRANIA Says:

    Hi ,

    How to save the AMI rom ???

    Mine was AMI BIOS 3.15 TAKEN from hp website ..

    My computer is :A1170D . FROM HP

    They have an Bios Update which is an EXE application hence i don’t get the rom file :S Pls helpp

    Thanks in advance

  21. cm Says:

    After revise 1b, I get box chinese text look like - Dp Arse! - ok?

    Is this good

  22. cm Says:

    then get, on save bios button

    E.EI

    OaeuAIae>>1BA£?eu1/2BIOSIA1/4p£?

    yes or no?

    I click yes.

    All seem ok. is this recogniseable behaviour to other ppls?

  23. cm Says:

    I look in hexeditor, no change to amibios.rom file.

  24. cm Says:

    gRANIA you could try using the program ‘uniflash’ to extract the bios rom file straight from your motherboard.

  25. cm Says:

    ok, it works perfectly on my ecs pf5 amibios to insert slic & rsdt for any oem into the 1b.rom file. However whatever I do from then on, I can’t get the original bios rom file to change. readonly is unset. md5 does not change..

  26. Irina Says:

    If AMIOEMSLIC.exe doesn’t update your original rom with the new 1b.rom file (it didn’t for me) just use the replace tab in mmtool. After I did that it worked perfectly for me.

  27. cm Says:

    Irina - did you flash it to the chip & try it?

    What you just suggested, did indeed work here.

    I re-extracted the 1b.rom with mmtool from the modified bios file afterward, and it looks okay (to my untrained eye) in a hex editor.. I can see the slic in there.. and levono..

    Dare I flash it in & try booting with it.

  28. chaser Says:

    Same as Irina. Original bios rom file wouldnt change when pressing ‘change to BIOS’ button. I used the replace tab in mmtool tool and updated the bios that way. I flashed and rebooted with the updated bios, and it came up with an ACER SLIC table. Vista fully activated :)

  29. cm Says:

    I flashed mine in. The motherboard is still alive and kicking. Vista is installing..

  30. cm Says:

    Used Ultimate oem:slp key from Lenovo. Installed lenovo.xrm-ms to match Lenovo SLIC. Reboot > RFM/key invalid. Hmm. It was looking so good

  31. cm Says:

    I try a different Ultimate OEM:SLP key. This time, error 0xC004E003 The software licensing service reported that license evaluation failed.

  32. cm Says:

    No joy after a full reinstall 2nd try, everest mentions ACPI nor SLIC anywhere, I guess that means I cocked up somewhere early, or else it fails on my BIOS :(

  33. cm Says:

    Retried with original mmtool, not the one suggested in the chinese forum a few posts after the original. Used acer slic. slic & rsdt definitely get incorporated into bios. flashed, rebooted - everest now shows everything roughly where it should be in acpi. loaded acer xrm-ms, still no joy. tried different ult key, still no joy. Giving up 4 now. So near yet so far.

  34. cm Says:

    Weird. Loaded XP 32bit on the PF5, Everest says that there is a SLIC table in ACPI, and it shows acer info, but ACPIScope shows no SLIC table anywhere at all. Something cranky with my BIOS then.

  35. Agnoia Says:

    @cm: Most of Acer SLIC floating arround have a error at offset 9h. If there is a “47″ checksum you have to correct it to “00″ or insert the right one “CD”.

    Agnoia

  36. Agnoia Says:

    I forgot: This auto tool does not work with all AMI bioses.

  37. cm Says:

    But it seems odd it does absolutely everything it should.. except activate. I think 75% I’m messing up somewhere - maybe that offset 9h - or 25% mine’s an oddball BIOS.. I shall keep banging away at it. Thanks for the info!

    SLICv….GACRS
    53 4C 49 43 76 01 00 00 01 -47- 41 43 52 53

    A-HA…. That ‘G’ you mean?

    He should be

    SLICv….ÍACRS
    53 4C 49 43 76 01 00 00 01 -CD- 41 43 52 53

    ?

    I [i]thought[/i] that looked odd

  38. Agnoia Says:

    Yes, now it´s right. If you have more questions, please ask.

    Agnoia

  39. Agnoia Says:

    BTW: The ultimate Key ****-932CC is the right one.

  40. adam Says:

    I took Irina’s advice and it worked! I compared the pre and post mod BIOS and the ROM location, source size and %% all changed upon hitting the replace tab. Now to try this on my pc and hope for the best.

  41. cm Says:

    Now this is very very weird. It worked but I must have got the procedure wrong somewhere because it kinda went crazy at the end.

    I looked into acer.bin and as Agnoia suspected, byte 9h was 47. So I changed it to CD as suggested.

    I re-ran mmtool, loaded the original ECS PF5 BIOS ROM.

    Extracted 1B.ROM & checked it’s MD5

    I then used gkend’s tool to apply the modified acer.bin to 1B.ROM

    Rechecked 1B.ROM MD5, verified it had changed. Examined 1B.ROM in a hexeditor & saw that the slic had been incorporated with the CD byte.

    Used mmtool to reload the original BIOS ROM, and the modified 1B.ROM, and used the replace tab to apply the modified 1B.ROM to the BIOS ROM. Saved the BIOS ROM.

    Reflashed the modified BIOS ROM to the motherboard - no problems.

    Installed Vista 64 bit RTM build 6000 MSDN with *.932CC Ult key to one SATA HDD partitioned with one single primary partion. No network connection present.

    Initial boot into OS went okay - showing 30 days for activation. Turned UAC off. System requested reboot. Rebooted.

    System rebooted direct into RFM; “The code you typed is invalid for activation”.

    Took the option to access PC in RFM.

    Typed “file://C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe” into IE address bar. Couple of groans and moans from OS, but got CMD prompt.

    Did
    CD\
    A:\
    copy acer.xrm-ms c:\
    C:
    slmgr.vbs -ilc acer.xrm-ms

    Rebooted

    STILL in RFM :-(

    “Type a new code” — I just retyped *.932cc

    Seemed to be happy with that - but lower right corner, “NOT GENUINE” :-(

    Rebooted. Suddenly everything hunky dory. Genuine.

    Agnoia & Irina you are DA MEN

  42. cm Says:

    Updated 100%, rebooted a bagful of times & stomped all over the Genuine Windows site. Still alive and kicking.

  43. cm Says:

    I wonder which version of the BIOS mod he is incorporating in this - i.e. is it the dynamic one that allows for memory stick changes without problems. I only have the one stick of memory so I can’t check that, maybe someone with more hardware available can try a few changes & reboots to see what happens.

  44. cm Says:

    Finally I reflashed the BIOS back to standard and operated the clear CMOS jumper. Rebooted into Vista and.. still activated!

    It didn’t survive a second reboot though. Second reboot with standard BIOS, >>> RFM

  45. Agnoia Says:

    Gkends method provided with that tool is RAM independent!

    Agnoia

  46. cm Says:

    OR even
    http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vistafans.com%2Fviewthread.php%3Ftid%3D153471%26extra%3Dpage%253D3%26sid%3DiHMuLR&langpair=zh%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
    Mod please delete the last 2 erroneous links. Soz

  47. smsayuwwqs Says:

    Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! rbzrgefwawruj

  48. Christian Says:

    I have a question, does this slic inserter replace existing bios offsets? or does it add itself into empty space… I am concerned about replacing offsets in my bios.

  49. govokinolij Says:

    Hi

    Looks good! Very useful, good stuff. Good resources here. Thanks much!

    G’night

  50. Animatrix Says:

    @Agnoia
    Before using this cool tool I would know if in fujitsu SLIC table is 9th bit “D7″ correct? And if I correct to “00″ what is the difference?

  51. shinigami08 Says:

    woot made my activation work 100% ami bios p5pe-vm :D self modded using hex editor and ami tool :D and some tuts :D

  52. motaba Says:

    hi guys,
    im trying to follow the ami bios tool instructions but they are a bit scetchy and its easy to go wrong,
    does anyone have a step by step and exact button to press guide,
    there are alot of options on that gui window and its not all black and white.

    cheers

  53. an Says:

    Hey can someone post instructions on which buttons to press for AMIOEMSLIC.exe I can only see 3 buttons [??1B??] [??BIOS] [ ? ? ] and I’m not completely sure which ones are which. Left Center Right directional instructions please!

    thx

  54. an Says:

    Sry, disregard my previous request. Missed some obvious instructions.

  55. naseeruddin Says:

    my motherboard is intel 810c i dont have usb option in cmos for boot through pen drive is there any program to change the bios

    Thanks
    Mohammed Naseeruddin

Leave a Reply

HTML, BBCode disabled in comments

Google PageRank Zoznam firiem Ceske domeny