Changing an Award BIOS boot logo results in a corrupted BIOS
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:34 pm
Hello,
I'm currently trying to modify the fullscreen logo of a Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 BIOS (Version F9). This mainboard contains a Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG with a fullscreen BIOS logo. According to Award BIOS Editor, this is a 640x480 EPA 2.0 logo.
I now tried to replace this logo. I already converted my logo to the EPA 2.0 Format with the awbmtools. Then I tried to release the old logo and integrate my logo with Cbrom 2.15.
In compressed form, my logo is around 10 KB bigger than the original logo and I still have some remaining space, so it's not too big.
But after I flashed my modified BIOS, the computer booted the "Award Boot-Block BIOS" and recovered to a working BIOS. So it looks like the BIOS file created by Cbrom was corrupted.
I also tried using Cbrom 6.06 or Award BIOS Editor, but both tools produced the same result. Award BIOS Editor even creates a file, which cannot be read by Cbrom correctly.
Don't these utilities work with newer Phoenix-Award BIOSes? If so, where can I download working utilities for my BIOS?
Many thanks in advance,
Colin Finck
I'm currently trying to modify the fullscreen logo of a Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 BIOS (Version F9). This mainboard contains a Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG with a fullscreen BIOS logo. According to Award BIOS Editor, this is a 640x480 EPA 2.0 logo.
I now tried to replace this logo. I already converted my logo to the EPA 2.0 Format with the awbmtools. Then I tried to release the old logo and integrate my logo with Cbrom 2.15.
In compressed form, my logo is around 10 KB bigger than the original logo and I still have some remaining space, so it's not too big.
But after I flashed my modified BIOS, the computer booted the "Award Boot-Block BIOS" and recovered to a working BIOS. So it looks like the BIOS file created by Cbrom was corrupted.
I also tried using Cbrom 6.06 or Award BIOS Editor, but both tools produced the same result. Award BIOS Editor even creates a file, which cannot be read by Cbrom correctly.
Don't these utilities work with newer Phoenix-Award BIOSes? If so, where can I download working utilities for my BIOS?
Many thanks in advance,
Colin Finck