My A6442P also uses this board and I've been feverishly trying to get a loader to work on it. According to the SLIC checks, I have gotten it to go up to SLIC 2.1 ... but no loader has worked thus far. Let me know if you have success with any of these.
That should totally fill in the blanks from the PM you sent. Much appreciated. (Accepting newbie status ... it's alright!)
OK, so I bought a HP ProBook 4710s and I installed Windows 7 and then I used the HP tool to flash the bios from windows. Then I tried to activate it and it did not activate. I tried various loaders and none of them have worked so far. I have read the last couple of pages and it seems that the slic 2.1 is not included in the bios update, so what can I do next?
The SLIC toolkit says that I dont have any slic tables. I flashed the bios with the HP tool (14/07/2009 bios date) and now it says I dont have any SLIC tables. I am not really sure what to do now.
How should we know if you installed such an emulator or not? There is no difference between emulated and real SLIC 2.1, of course this is meaning to emulate it!
Yes, I have used WOW7 to activate Win7 sucessfully. Anyway, I think real is better than emulated, just my hobby . Do you mean that to have real SLIC 2.1, my laptop's BIOS must be modded/flashed? Can you tell me how to do this or just give me a link to the topic in this forum? Thanks much!
Compaq 510 I have used HPI103.EXE ("HPI103 READ SLP") & ("HPI103.EXE WRITE SLP ON") on my Compaq 510 Notebook Pc With Success although Idont know it is slp-2 or 2.1
Of course it's better to get the real SLIC, but I just wanted to clarify, that from Windows you cannot check with SLIC-Dump if you have emulated or real SLIC table in BIOS. Understand? So, I downloaded the latest BIOS of your 6520s and it contains dual SLIC 2.0 table. So there is currently NO WAY for you to change it to a SLIC 2.1 table with default tools. The only way to achieve is to use an hardware programmer (not recommended).
Everest doesn't detect bios slic's properly, yes it will tell you what version your running, 2.0 or 2.1 but the emulated tag shows up on actual slics occasionally as well as emulated ones from a loader...