Just got another off-lease Dell, fired it up for the first time, and the BIOS presented this splash screen:
Optiplex 780 BIOS A06 Splash
Updating the BIOS from A06 to A13 restored the default Dell logo, but I really miss having a Genuine Lockheed Martin PC.
The Windows 7 Professional installed on the disk started up in “first time” mode, so they did scrub the drive. It does have RAID enabled, though, which may confuse the Linux installation I have yet to do.
I wish I could put my logo on the BIOS splash screen…
#1 by madbodger on 29-January-2013 - 09:05
I’ve added custom logos to splash screens myself, but only on the sort of computers that run openprom, not BIOS.
#2 by Ed on 29-January-2013 - 09:20
All the Dell BIOS hacks I’ve found include the warning “This may brick your computer”, which is enough to discourage me. That and the fact they’re version-specific.
It’d be nice, but it’s not that important…
#3 by madbodger on 2-February-2013 - 07:20
Openprom has nothing to do with Dell class hardware. It’s the Forth based one used in Sun (now Oracle) machines.
#4 by Ed on 2-February-2013 - 08:24
Openprom, coreboot, openbios, open firmware, uefi … a standard for every occasion!