You've probably noticed the Windows XP Professional logo appear on your workstation every time you start it. Although it's nice to see a quick reminder of Microsoft and your operating system, you may want to change the boot logo to display something different, such as your company's logo.
Doing so is difficult, but it's not impossible. Before you begin Don't confuse the boot logo with the desktop background or the system login screen. What we're referring to here is the Microsoft Windows XP Professional flag that you see before you log into your system.
For the purposes of this article, we'll be replacing a key component of Windows XP. Make sure you have a full backup of your system before attempting to make these changes. If you make a mistake, you may have to completely reinstall Windows XP. Not for the faint of heart Back in the Windows 9x days, it was easy to modify the boot logo. All you had to do was replace one simple file and you were set and ready to go. Microsoft made the task much more difficult under Windows XP.
EXE file. This is the main kernel for the entire operating system. That means that you can't just swap out one image file for another. It may sound simple, but it's not. If you damage the file and make a mistake, you won't be able to boot your workstation. There are ways to do this manually that you can find on the Internet.
EXE file can be an exercise in frustration. Fortunately, there's an easier way. Using a freeware utility called Boot Editor, you can change Windows XP boot files relatively quickly. Click to expand Tedster said:. What exactly happened here with the BIOS update? This can be tricky. I'd would try it again and hopefully this will solve the problem.
I downloaded and ran Memtest 86 on my old memory the memory I originally found errors on I got 1 error on pass 8, 1 on pass 11 and 1 on pass Any thoughts on this? Is it normal to get a few errors?
Is this bad memory or not? I also ran this on the new memory and had no errors at all. The original memory program I used was Windows Memory Diagnostics downloaded from windows error reporting page. When I ran that I got errors on the 1st pass for 3 tests. If Memtest86 found errors with your old RAM then your old ram is bad.
Sometimes memtest86 misses some marginal memory errors reports good mem when it's bad but never bad mem when it's good. That's weird that you keep running into the BIOS update error thing.
Read the website mobo instructions again and double, triple check you have all the files required on the boot floppy. It's possible they have an error with their flash utility, but you'd think ppl would have freaked out at them and they'd have that fixed. Only other thing I can suggest is upping your Vcore and Vdram voltages by minimal allowed smallest step in BIOS and see if that makes things more stable.
Watch your CPU temps though because this can create more heat. But this would be minimal bc's you're not increasing the clock freq too. Simple fix for stopping the XP Logo "looping" Hi! I work in a school environment with a large quantity of both desktops and laptops.
This works well especially if you have multiple partitiions. It's not unheard of to have brand new faulty RAM. Increasing your VDram voltage by a little will not hurt it unless you way over do it. But a low or high setting will only add the little minimal step I mentioned in last post. So try that. Have you only just reinstalled WinXP and on the 1st reboot it started this problem?
I mean you don't have any other drivers installed? And you can't boot into safe mode? Just trying to narrow it down by cause and symptom. Looping problem ZipZpZowie said:.
I was looking at that, but figured that a fix for windows xp pro wouldn't come from a windows me os. Do you think this will work. I do not have multiple partitions. This means specifically that the image can be no larger than by pixels and that the palette can have no more than any 16 colours. Download an example. Save your logo file as BOOT. In the [operating systems] section of your BOOT. INI file, find an entry that corresponds to that same Windows installation.
Be sure not to stray from VGA compatibility. The best consequence of installing an unsuitable BOOT. BMP is that the image is displayed unrecognisably. The coding error is a buffer overflow. The 4 bits-per-pixel format for uncompressed bitmap data in the file does not correspond directly to what must be written to the 4 colour planes of video memory.
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