U.C. Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 NOTE: This may cause Temp/Permanent Damage to your motherboard, if not done right WARNING: Do this at your own risk IDIOT ALERT: Your BIOS must support logos. If u see a nice fullscreen bootup logo, you are good to go. Also if you are not familiar with the terms - BIOS, Flash, Motherboard, Floppy, Recovery. Please DONOT procede 1) Download Archive and extract 2) Covert a suitable image to 640x480 and 256 colors. Save it as a TIFF file 3) Downlad your motherboard's BIOS No you can't use your friends 4) Open CMD 5) Browse to where you extracted the archive 6) Place downloaded BIOS File here 7) Goto AWBM dir 8) Convert your TIFF file to AWBM Format using the tiff2awbm tool eg: tiff2awbm logo.tiff LOGO.BMP 9) Copy LOGO.BMP to directory where the BIOS and CBROM215.EXE are 10) Now to see what all your Bios has CBROM215.EXE Bios.bin /D If you see something like LOGO BitMap 7560Ch(469.51K) 039AFh(14.42K) LOGO.BMP You are good to go. 11) Now to replace your logo CBROM215.EXE Bios.bin /logo LOGO.BMP It will now show a progress bar and will complete succesfully If it shows, not enough space, your image is too complex too fit. Use another image Also 800x600 Images can also be used, but very few and low detail images will fit into the BIOS ROM. For most images CBROM will say not enough space This has been tested succesfully on ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe MSI PM8MV Be extra careful with motherboards that donot have removable BIOS, if you screw up, you are gonna have to pay quite a bit BTW Thats my logo, feel free to mod it Bios_Logo_Modding.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted June 9, 2006 Author Share Posted June 9, 2006 Come, isnt there any one whos tried this. I mean sure its dangerous, but hey BIOS Flashing is covered by warranty. Max even if your board is out of warranty it will cost you like 5-10 $. I tried it, and fried my board once. Gave it to ASUS, got it back within a week. Messed it up again 5 mins after getting it back. By then I had a recovery disk. I'll make a image of my recovery disk, if ne one messes up his BIOS. My new MSI, I have flashed the BIOS logo like 10-20 Times. No Problems at all. Just follow the instructions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 good found, i dont about it, but nice tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 I'm With ya. I was working on it, will try yer method tonight when I get home. here is the thread I started. I was brought to a hault.. http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=19006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted June 9, 2006 Author Share Posted June 9, 2006 Hope you succeed Antman. Also the Apple Logo Bootscreen is pretty less complex. Save it as a 800x600 Tiff and convert it. The AWBM will be around 469KB. Now add it to the BIOS. If it adds sucessfully, it should work 90%. If you have a spare board lying around, give 1024 a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 ok.. it worked I managed to have it as my bootlogo but it is a little grainy.. got it workin.. I wonder if it would be cool to post modified BIOses for everyone ? I am proud of this.. thanks a lot for your guide.. you are tha man.. it adds to my Mac experience. starts to the Mac Boot Logo Screen immediatly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 hey bro would you be able to help me make this image 640x480 256 color and it look nice like on a real make on boot up instead of distorted. I tried 800x600 but I dont think it will go. cant risk it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted June 10, 2006 Author Share Posted June 10, 2006 The Apple Logo resized. In TIFF and AWBM Format. But before putting them in your BIOS ROM, pls rename .BMP files to LOGO.BMP You dont wanna take a chance. 800x600 should easily go. OSX_Logo.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 ok.. I tried the 800x600 logo.bmp ya made and it added to the bios file just fine but gave a programming error while I was flashing which scared me for a sec but I was in Windows so I reflashed with your 640x480 logo.bmp and it worked great and that one you made does not look grainy like mine.. it is actually perfect for me.. I am happy and content! Thank you a lot for your help.. it actually rox.. BTW: if ya are trying this I highly recommend using yer windows BIOs Flash utility that comes with yer board cause if it doesnt work right ya can fix it before rebooting... unless the famous XP crashes and then ya have to resort to that backup disk ya made.. But for the record the ABit KV8 Pro MB will flash and look good with 640x480.. And Unstable Connection is tha man.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted June 11, 2006 Author Share Posted June 11, 2006 My MSI also supports a Windows Flashing. Thats what i did. I learnt after flashing my ASUS twice wrongly using floppy. Once my VRAM was causing some prob and the second time the floppy got messed. Neway great to hear it worked for ya. Come on ppl stop being so chicken and try it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
node64 Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 im gonna try this too, im just experamenting with what to put on it justnow, ill post a picture after its done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 dont forget to post all yer info and motherboard model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
node64 Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 ok i just did it quick. ill wait and look at it 2moro see what i think then do all the flashing etc what do u guys think? i thought about adding machine spec and stuff but decided that it might look beter minimal. hmm it didnt let me upload the tiff, so i just saved as bitmap, to show u My motherboard is an MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum logo.bmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted June 11, 2006 Author Share Posted June 11, 2006 Next time, pls for gods sake and my bandwidths, upload gif or jpgs. If your BIOS rom is 512 KB, you are good to go. If you see a boot up logo, with stuff like ASUS Stabilty, Performance {censored}. What u waiting for man?? Flash away already!!! BTW the logo looks sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Maybe I will set my Mac HDD active and put this logo on. Now to mod the Apple boot up pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
node64 Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 oh sorry about the size, yea i hav no probs about flashing it i did it to a board a long time ago, but had forgot the process, i think ill wait til 2moro tho so i can decie if i want to make a differant boot screen. feel free to use that 1 tho btw. how do u put a pic in ur sig? EDIT: i think ima fix the reflection of the loading "button" so that it fades out looking like the apple reflections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Yeah nice logo.. I just wanted my PC to look more like a mac when it started. I have my tower kinda hidden and it looks like I have a mac on my desk so the logo i chose werks good fer me.. but that is very nice.. Good luck on it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacSpaces Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 I have a pentium d 930 & intel d945gtp motherboard will this hack work for me? im pretty good with making stuff on photoshop will create one with both the apple logo and the windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 Does that board have an Award BIOs on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted June 13, 2006 Author Share Posted June 13, 2006 Most probably. If CBROM215.EXE opens your BIOS ROM file. Also after opening type in CBROM215.EXE Bios.bin /D If you see something like LOGO BitMap 7560Ch(469.51K) 039AFh(14.42K) LOGO.BMP NOTE: It has to say LOGO Bitmap. If it does then Yes it will work. CBROM215 will not open your BIOS Rom File , if it is not supported Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
node64 Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 oops, i forgot to tell yall, i did it and it worked no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted June 17, 2006 Author Share Posted June 17, 2006 Sweeeet. So we are a elite group (3 PPL) Who have custom BIOS logo's. Lets form a Mafia gang, do hits on ppl who dont have custim bios logos, and threaten them with dead bioses. For protection they have to give us their BIOS Roms I am really sleepy............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 If there are only three of you I say bring it on sucka. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealRemnant Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 Oh man its such a sigh of relief to get rid of that nasty Biostar T-Force logo! Thanks man! This worked a charm at 800x600. I'm thinking 1024x768 would work too though because the BIOS image still has a lot of room left according to the program. EDIT: I decided to make mine non-OSX related for now. I'm sure I'll come up with an OS X mod sometime soon too but this will do for now. dragon.bmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 Yeah I was happy to change my logo on he fullscreen boot too.. this truely does give it a better look.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxgus Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 i can't do this without the mac startup sound !! ;-) and ofcourse i would use the classic boot logo ---> cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts