Bios Mods -The Best BIOS Update and Modification Source

Greetings,

I was hoping to find a way to boot up a Dell OptiPlex GX260 with nothing but black appearing, yet still retaining the ability to access the BIOS by pressing F2 during this black screen. I'm trying to create a homebrew arcade game and succeeded in configuring Windows XP Pro to not show anything but black (no crumby Microsoft logos or ANYTHING!) until an application is run, but no such luck with the BIOS. My hope is to create a PC-based homebrew arcade game that one would hardly know really is a PC, much less a Dell PC! Thanks!

- Mike

Well, I decided to scrap the idea of using a Dell OptiPlex GX260. I found an IBM with a BIOS update from IBM that has steps for integrating a custom logo as the BIOS splash screen. I still get a blinking text cursor briefly, but eh, good enough I guess!

can you please tell me how you did this? i bought a used optiplex sx270 froma doctors office and refurbed it. now i want to sell it, but on the bios boot screen (where you would hit f2 or f12) it displays the name of the dr office on it over the DELL logo.

(06-06-2011, 07:49 AM)cynlis Wrote: [ -> ]can you please tell me how you did this? i bought a used optiplex sx270 froma doctors office and refurbed it. now i want to sell it, but on the bios boot screen (where you would hit f2 or f12) it displays the name of the dr office on it over the DELL logo.

Download this http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/e...Id=R109071 from Dell and make a boot floppy.
Edits owner information on boot screen.

Floppy Disk Boot to Disk for R109071.exe

Download

1. Click Download Now, to download the file.
2. When the File Download window appears, click Save (Windows XP users will click Save) this program to disk and click OK. The Save In:
window appears.
3. From the Save In: field, click the down arrow then click to
select Desktop and click Save. The file will download to your desktop.
4. If the Download Complete window appears, click Close. The file
icon appears on your desktop.

Hard Drive Floppy Disk Creation

1. Get 1 blank, formatted floppy disks.
2. Double-click the new icon (it looks like a floppy diskette) on
the desktop. The Self-Extractor window appears.
3. Click Setup. An black MS-DOS window appears with a message
indicating that you need 1 floppy diskettes.
4. Press the [ENTER] key.
A message appears prompting you to insert a blank floppy diskette.
5. Insert a floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.
6. Press the [ENTER] key. A message appears indicating that all
data on the disk will be erased.
7. Press the [y] key and then press the [ENTER] key.
The files are copied to the floppy diskette. If the procedure requires
more than one diskette, repeat steps 5 – 7 until you reach the end of the diskette set.
8. After all the files have been copied to the last floppy disk,
press the [ENTER] key and the MS-DOS window closes.

Install

1. Insert the first (or the only) disk of the set into the Floppy
drive.
2. Click Start, click Shutdown, click Restart, and then click OK.
Windows XP Users need only click restart.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.