Hey everyone, I'm looking for a bit of help, been scouring the net, but haven't found anything, so I thought I'd just come to the source. My college "gave" us laptops, which is great, but there's one rather annoying part of it. When I start it up, the logo of the college pops up where normally it'd be the IBM Thinkpad, or whatever. I think it's the motherboard image or something like that, but I have no idea how to change it, or if i even can without doing some surgery on it. Any help would be greatly appericated! Thanks again.
Hey everyone, I'm looking for a bit of help, been scouring the net, but haven't found anything, so I thought I'd just come to the source. My college "gave" us laptops, which is great, but there's one rather annoying part of it. When I start it up, the logo of the college pops up where normally it'd be the IBM Thinkpad, or whatever. I think it's the motherboard image or something like that, but I have no idea how to change it, or if i even can without doing some surgery on it. Any help would be greatly appericated! Thanks again.
Dragon6860
The college probably made a deal with IBM to get customized BIOS firmware. You probably can change it, but it will almost certainly involve hacking the BIOS firmware.
Naw, it's much simpler than that. Some BIOSes have a user-flashable area for a bitmap that shows at boot-time. This part can be independently flashed with software. I used to have one on my Intel Venus motherboard and since I made the machine myself I changed out the default logo for a "DrFrylock-Made!" one. You should replace yours with something like "LOL PWNED!"
The software and instructions you need are here. Happy hacking!
Thanks! I'll get to work on it after class and tell you how it went. Hehe, I'm always a bit hesitant about putzing about with the BIOS, but eh Also, my comp isn't a Thinkpad, but it should work anywho. Thanks again!
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The college probably made a deal with IBM to get customized BIOS firmware. You probably can change it, but it will almost certainly involve hacking the BIOS firmware.
The software and instructions you need are here. Happy hacking!
Dragon6860
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