Hi guys i flashed my A11 Bios to the unlocked A11 Bios by svl7. I flashed the modified Bios from DOS by using the FPT tool (Method 2). The procedure went fine without any hickups . However after a new clean install through the original provided Windows 8.0 recovery disk, Windows Setup asked for the product key, which was strange because it never did that before .To investigate i installed Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation and used RW-Everything to find the key in the Bios. Then i discovered the MSDM table (which contains the key) is no longer present within the ACPI table.
Some weeks before the unlock I checked with RW-Everything and it did find the key withing MSDM table, and i made note of it. My System seems to work fine for weeks now, i dont think there is something wrong with the Bios aside from that lost key.
So have any of you lost the embedded key when unlocking the Alienware M17xR4? What could i have done wrong, do need to set some parameters within the Bios? Or maybe i get the key back when i reflash to the stock A11 Bios? Or is it all just a consequence when you unlock on this system with this method?
Any insight will be welkom, thank you.
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Thread can be closed, I had succes using the Belarc Adviser PC Audit tool, so RW-Everything doesn't work for me, but Belarc Adviser does find the Key in the firmware.
Stock A11 Bios M17xR4 flashed to unlocked A11 Bios and lost the embedded Windows 8 OEM key
Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by ModularMix, Nov 26, 2015.