K8N Diamond Plus: Customize BIOS Startup Logo?

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Hi folks,

My old ePoX and Gigabyte motherboards had a utility to customize the boot screen that shows when you have "Full Screen LOGO Display" enabled in BIOS. There does not appear to be one for MSI.

I found a few articles on how to customize Award BIOS... but not for AMIBIOS. Do you folks know if this is possible, and how?
 
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I have a K8N Diamond Plus mainboard, I could disable the Logo Screen in the bios/Advanced Bios Features. So could you please unplug the power supply and clear cmos to have another try.
If that could not help, you may have a try to flash the latest bios to have a try.
 
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Crazy: I know how to enable and disable it. It's how to customize it that I am asking about.
MurdoK: I find that thread hard to decipher, but it seems the recommendation is to use "AMI MMTool 2.22" -- any idea where to download this utility, as my searching reveals only pages in languages I cannot understand, and many copies of a page by "borgnumberone" that no longer exist.
 
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syar2003, Thanks so much for the lead on MMTool.

Well, it seems to be a little more involved than just running MMTool and replacing the "0E-OEM Logo" module with a custom JFIF (JPG) picture. I tried this method and the result was a computer that booted up to a flashing cursor in the upper-left of the screen -- and nothing more. That's right, I trashed my BIOS.

Now, I was a little panicked but I found the BIOS Recovery procedure (http://www.msi.com.tw/html/support/bios/note/boot.htm) quickly enough. (Basically you copy a good BIOS to a floppy disk, rename the file to AMIBOOT.ROM, then hold down Control+Home as you boot the computer from that floppy.) Unfortunately I became a LOT panicked when the BIOS recovery procedure failed to work.

I tried several different floppy disks, tried various versions of the BIOS, and even purchased a brand-new floppy disk drive. Nothing was working. The computer would read from the floppy disk for a while, but the procedure would not complete. My board seemed dead.

Finally I went to http://www.badflash.com thinking I'd have to replace the BIOS chip, if not the whole board! In reading through their FAQ I came across a KEY TIDBIT of information that is not provided in the standard BIOS recovery instructions from MSI:

You must connect a fan to all three fan jumpers on the motherboard, or the BIOS recovery will not work!

The fan must be a bona-fide three-pin "smart" fan. Earlier, I had the CPU fan connected, the PWR fan connected, but the SYS fan port was open because I had several other fans in the case connected to a front-panel speed controller. (No sense in sucking power from the motherboard.) After reading this tip on badflash.com, I quickly grabbed a spare 3-pin fan and connected it to the SYS FAN jumper. VOILA! The Flash recovery worked like a charm and I was back up and running!

I hope this information gets added to a sticky post and perhaps even the official "BIOS Recovery" instructions page, to save others the stress, expense, and time.
 
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send me a custom picture think can make it to work property without corrupt BIOS. (will test it 1st on my mobo)
 
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BOSSKILLER,

You're very kind to make this offer. Sorry I did not see it until today! Are you still interested? If you are, here is the custom boot screen that I would like to have.

K8NBoot.jpg


The JPG above weighs in at just under the size of the one that it is in the actual shipping BIOS. Now, as far as I know, this has to be in JFIF format. This is supposed to be more or less the same as JPG. But in case the image format was the problem, I attach as well the "source" files for you to play with the compression.

http://www.merryotter.com/dl/K8NBoot.zip

(I made the image using Xara Xtreme, which has a free trial download if you don't have it)
 
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hello,

yep we can have a try but cannot test the result myself (don't have mobo anymore)
 
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Zuidema said:
Uh oh, what's the " :undecided: " for?
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no go for now, i have found mainboard yesterday to test the mod, have maked 3 different mods all results is negative. 3 of 3 failures. same thing happend, top left corner blinking cursor on the screen.
 
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the problem is the AMI BIOS. the majority of the tools out there are made for the old versions of the AMI BIOS and there is no new tool to allow for BIOS hidden option editing. i've been looking for one for more than 6 months now, but no luck. the old ones are corrupting the BIOS files, so that's why the blinking cursor in the corner instead of a boot.
 
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