On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:38:45 -0400, "PCR" put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:24:27 -0400, "PCR" put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Franc Zabkar wrote:

These are the modules in my BIOS:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/L7S...OS/MODULES.TXT

I believe that the "Small OEM Logo" is the "Green" logo.

That sounds like a possibility. And that is your startup screen? I have
no way to look into my own BIOS.

Those modules were extracted using AMI's amibcp.exe utility.

This is a dump of my AMI BIOS:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/L7S7A2/BIOS/L7S7A2.RPT

These are the binary modules that were extracted from the compressed
image:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/L7S7A2/BIOS/

Gigabyte "Face-Wizard":

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/...facewizard.htm

"Face-Wizard™ allows user to select BIOS on board or file in hard
drive/floppy disk/zip/MO or other storage devices and combine the
compatible picture you prefer into BIOS. And not only this,
Face-Wizard™ also helps user to update BIOS in Windows mode."

That sounds scary to me. I wouldn't want to make it impossible to boot.
Of course, I do have my BIOS on a floppy ready to flash again if
necessary. But really -- if anything -- I'd just want that COMPAQ screen
to disappear, not to replace it. I'd want to see whether anything shows
up under it. Putting Logo=0 into MSDOS.sys had no effect. There never
was an MS bootup screen that I can recall-- & it doesn't prevent the
big, red COMPAQ!

Disconnect your hard drive. If the logo still comes up, then it's
embedded in your BIOS code.

I should put a Logo.sys into C:/ (I have one elsewhere) & set Logo=1 to
see what happens. But I can swear the one in IO.sys never showed back
when I had no Logo=0.

Well, looking inside IO.sys, I do see...
0003 5F20 00 00 43 4F 4D 50 41 51 00 00 54 4F 53 48 49 42
..COMPAQ..TOSHIB

Mine has the same.

...So, it's possible that was altered. OK, I've set it to show Logo.sys
& will report back next boot.

Asus MyLogo Series:
http://www.asus.com/999/html/events/mb/mylogo.htm

"With the MyLogo Series, you can download your favorite image from
Windows into the BIOS Flash ROM, providing a fast, convenient way to
'decorate' your system."

That actually looks nice, but I'd fear it weren't compatible with this
Compaq.

No, it won't be. I just included it to show you that adding customised
logos to your BIOS was possible.

- Franc Zabkar
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