The guy who built my PC set it up so that upon start-up, the very first thing that shows on the monitor is a "logo" screen for his business. It stays there for a few seconds, and looks like a bitmap image made with MS Paint. How do I remove it? Somebody said it might be hard-coded into the BIOS, but I can't find anything that looks obvious there. Any suggestions?
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It probably is in BIOS. Some motherboard BIOSs can insert custom boot screens. You should have an option in BIOS to change or use no graphic bootscreen. Check your motherboard manual.
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Originally Posted by redwudz
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I'm going to take a guess and say the Logo appears appears after the POST but before the OS loads. If so, in the root directory of your boot drive there should be a file called logo.sys or logo.bin or even something similiar. That's the file containing the .bmp. Replace that file with a blank one and the logo will be history. easy way to replace it. Let your OS boot up, open a document program(notepad) and without typing anything save the file to the root directory of your boot drive with the same filename and extension of the logo file. you will be asked to overwrite this file. Confirm that and you're all set.
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Thanks ROF, I just checked the root directory of my C drive, and no such file(s). (I have a lo.sys file there, but it's grayed out). There is a logo.sys file under 'C:\Program Files\Rescue Disk', but I don't think that is the one I want to mess with, is it (since the logo screen appears before Windows loads)? Actually, I'm not sure if the logo appears before or after the POST, but it is the very first thing that pops up on the monitor. Any more help? -- I really hate that logo screen!
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Yeah its not the logosys its in the bios for sure. Let me check some info and get back to ya.
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Update: how old is this computer? The Logo Genie software says it changed the boot logo on Windows 98 computers?
Does the logo come up just after you power it on or when windows is loading?
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Actually the info is confusing, on FICs site it suggest you have to flash you bios to change the logo. So that would make it a bios logo.
But another website sounds like the program itself can change the logo which would make it a simple Boot logo.
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Flaystus, thanks for your efforts. Yes, it is an FIC (AZ11) MB, and my OS is WIN 98SE. The logo screen is the very first thing that appears on the monitor after powering on, before Windows loads, even before all that boot "DOS" looking stuff with the black screen and white letters. The LogoGenie program appeared to work OK up until trying to remove/replace the logo BMP image (flashing the BIOS step?), then it would give the error message "Insufficient Memory", and the logo screen would still be there on restart. The MB manual said to disable both the BIOS Guardian and Anti-Virus program settings in the BIOS menu before using LogoGenie, which I did, so that's not a factor.
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Sorry, I don't have a very high tech answer for you, but why not ask the guy that put it there to remove it?
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You may want to flash your BIOS with an identical generic BIOS. If the Logogenie isn't working for you, flashing the BIOS with the most current BIOS for your system surely would. Just be very careful because flashing your BIOS incorrectly can result in a dead computer.
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If your comfortable doing so goto the FIC page and get whatever is the latest BIOS for your mobo. Flashing it should get rid of it.
As far as how to put a different logo on there instead of no logo well you'd have to figure out how to put a different picture into the flash.
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See if you have something called "silent boot" in your bios. if so change it's setting ( I believe it should be disabled )
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ZAPPER -- The guy moved somewhere out of state.
Shard92 -- I don't recall seeing anything like that in the BIOS, but I'll look again to be sure.
Flaystus and ROF -- I'm thinking you may be right, that flashing the BIOS with the latest version from FIC is the "easiest" solution. I don't care about replacing the logo so much as just getting rid of the current one.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions.
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