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January 8th, 2011 22:00

BIOS splash screen image replacement

HI

I´ve to change DELL image splash screen on E4300/E4310 laptops - instead of DELL logo my boss wants to have there company logo (the one saved in the BIOS). Does anybody knows, how to (easily) do it?

 

Thanks fot help

Zdenek

  • meryl_streep

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    Posted January 9th, 2011 18:00

    you need the POST splash utility: It doesn't say it works on the E series but I know it does because I've used it.

    There are 2 important things to know about it:

    • The utility only creates a floppy disk, There's no other way to extract the files out of the executable. I have a USB floppy from an old D series that I use for this.
    • The image you use must be in a very specific size and format in order for it work. It has to be 640x480 and 16 colors - the trick here is that you can use any 16 colors that you like. What I do is create the image in Photoshop and then open it with Paintshop. From there I can reduce the color depth to a selective 16 color palette. The finished image will always be 151 KB when you do it right.

    Paintshop is the only software I've seen that has a 'reduce color depth' feature but maybe there are others out there.