Asus M3A78-EM flashing and Slic question

[dormin]

Okay I have read the threads and have a couple of questions.

I have downloaded the program to check the slic table. It appears that I have an incomplete slic 2.1 just with the common Asus non modded bios.

Its present in the basic tab, Advanced tab but in the SLP 1.0 tab no SLP OEM string.

So I gave the program to a friend who has A dell and under SLP tab he has a valid SLP OEM String but an invalid offset.

So anyway back to my question. I have tried all the frimwares that where posted here. When I try to flash them using the built in bios flash they all come back as invalid boot block. Why is the boot block invalid? Is this som sort of asus protection against modding?

I can only flash them in dos mode from a usb stick. When I do flash them the SLP 1.0 window still shows no SLP OEM string.

Should there not be something there?

Oh and the program that I am using is Slic Toolkit v3.2 in windows 7 ultimate running as admininstrator. Any suggestions? I am trying to get a 64 bit OEM dell windows 7 dvd to work with my asus since my dell is no longer amongst the living. And shelling out another $200 is simply out of the question. Bunch of con artists at Microsloth. Sorry just had to add that.