A while back I was attempting to change my Gateway logo (at POST) on my MS440GX board. I was using Intel's GRFXLOGO and IFLASH tools. It would appear to flash my new graphic logo successfully, however the damn Gateway logos would still show up.
See my old thread that I cannot add to anymore because I let too much time slip past
Oldfart had suggested I try flashing a genuine Intel .86A BIOS to my Gateway Intel OEM board .15A, by either using a hex editor or setting a jumper to the recovery postition.
I first tried the hex editor approach. (If it worked I would have changed the Pheonix copyright blurbs to something of my liking later). I changed the following files: bios.rec, P20-0050.bio, P20-0050.bi1 thru .bi7 -- All files had the string towards the top, and the .bi7 had a second occurance about halfway. Funny thing, the Intel BIOS files have 86E not 86A... I first changed 86E to 15E but that resulted in (H48): Invalid reserved string in flash image header. error as the image was loading, prior to flashing. After changing all to 15A I was able to complete the flash...except it seemed to put the BIOS in "recovery mode" as if the jumper were set that way to make it read a new image from the floppy.
Next I used the original Intel P20 BIOS files, unmodified. They flashed successfully. My PC POSTed, my Promise BIOS appeared, and I even had Intel graphics logos instead of Gateway's. I entered setup, cleared and reconfigured all my settings. The only problem is that it does not boot after POST! If I have a bootable floppy in the drive it will start loading but then stop. All I get is a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner. No error messages. Nothing in my event log.
Since this left my computer in a usable state I downgraded back to the Gateway P17 BIOS. Gateway logos reappeared.
This may work well with the 440LX boards, but I've come to the conclusion that my 440GX board probably won't work with the 86A BIOS. I wish it couls, as there were more options than Gateway offers. But then again, my OEM board does not have things such as integrated NIC that the 86A BIOS could be expecting.
I am guessing Gateway's and Intel's logos are encoded in the BIOS image files themselves. (unless I had that intel logo all along, hidden away somewhere) Anyone know if this is correct? And how does Gateway do it differently, breaking Intel's utilities to create new graphic logos?
I have searched far and wide, not turning up much info on this subject. I have found a handful of broken links on this subject, but being broken they don't do me much good. They probably got cease and desist orders I f anyone knows of some sites that might help please let me know.
See my old thread that I cannot add to anymore because I let too much time slip past
Oldfart had suggested I try flashing a genuine Intel .86A BIOS to my Gateway Intel OEM board .15A, by either using a hex editor or setting a jumper to the recovery postition.
I first tried the hex editor approach. (If it worked I would have changed the Pheonix copyright blurbs to something of my liking later). I changed the following files: bios.rec, P20-0050.bio, P20-0050.bi1 thru .bi7 -- All files had the string towards the top, and the .bi7 had a second occurance about halfway. Funny thing, the Intel BIOS files have 86E not 86A... I first changed 86E to 15E but that resulted in (H48): Invalid reserved string in flash image header. error as the image was loading, prior to flashing. After changing all to 15A I was able to complete the flash...except it seemed to put the BIOS in "recovery mode" as if the jumper were set that way to make it read a new image from the floppy.
Next I used the original Intel P20 BIOS files, unmodified. They flashed successfully. My PC POSTed, my Promise BIOS appeared, and I even had Intel graphics logos instead of Gateway's. I entered setup, cleared and reconfigured all my settings. The only problem is that it does not boot after POST! If I have a bootable floppy in the drive it will start loading but then stop. All I get is a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner. No error messages. Nothing in my event log.
Since this left my computer in a usable state I downgraded back to the Gateway P17 BIOS. Gateway logos reappeared.
This may work well with the 440LX boards, but I've come to the conclusion that my 440GX board probably won't work with the 86A BIOS. I wish it couls, as there were more options than Gateway offers. But then again, my OEM board does not have things such as integrated NIC that the 86A BIOS could be expecting.
I am guessing Gateway's and Intel's logos are encoded in the BIOS image files themselves. (unless I had that intel logo all along, hidden away somewhere) Anyone know if this is correct? And how does Gateway do it differently, breaking Intel's utilities to create new graphic logos?
I have searched far and wide, not turning up much info on this subject. I have found a handful of broken links on this subject, but being broken they don't do me much good. They probably got cease and desist orders
I f anyone knows of some sites that might help please let me know.
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