Hi guys, I'm kinda new in the board level repair stuff. I recently did a bios flash on an asus laptop and a clean install of windows 10 but I don't have a key for it. From what I understand, the windows key is now embedded in the bios. I still have a dump of the old bios. Is there a way to extract the key? Or if I'm way off please help enlighten me Thanks
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Re: Bios : embedded windows key question
ShowKeyPlus should work
http://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/showkeyplus.html
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I can try and pull it out of the BIOS dump. Ive not tested my method on 10 though.Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....
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Re: Bios : embedded windows key question
just google
https://superuser.com/questions/6379...ux-environment
see the comments
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Re: Bios : embedded windows key question
Originally posted by vanrepair View PostHi guys, I'm kinda new in the board level repair stuff. I recently did a bios flash on an asus laptop and a clean install of windows 10 but I don't have a key for it. From what I understand, the windows key is now embedded in the bios. I still have a dump of the old bios. Is there a way to extract the key? Or if I'm way off please help enlighten me Thanks
?????-?????-?????-?????-????? that is the wild card search. The key should pop right out Done this so many times.
What I do is I usually put the old/original key in the same place as the old one so that the original key is with the new flashed bios. Sometimes its not that easy you have to redo checksums but sometimes it just works.... Getting it out is simple.
I think neoEditor on windows had wildcard search but its a 30days free software i think....
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Theres a good post on elvikom about recovering win 8 keys. https://www.elvikom.pl/sposob-na-uzy...os-t35874.html
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Thank you all for your replies. I downloaded ultra edit and found the key at line 00223ae0h for the asus x541u. Unfortunately the new windows install rejected the key. I read somewhere that it's not enough to simply have the key. You also also need a backup of the encrypted MSDM table. This case was for a different computer but I'm guessing it applies globally to Windows 8+. Anyhow I'm not motivated enough to figure how to combine the 2 firmwares I have to get the key working. This was a cheap computer I picked up on craigslist to get my hands dirty. I was able to desolder the bios chip, read it, program it and solder it back on and got it booting. I'm happy with the result. Cheers
Edit: I've attached the original bios dump for any of the curiousAttached FilesLast edited by vanrepair; 10-30-2018, 01:27 PM.
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