ok, thanks, now I understand. It appears that I won't be able to surpress
it. The manufacturer has given me the brand of the motherboard so,
presumeably, at some point, I can upgrade the bios, but I agree it makes
little sense to do it for something so trivial.
thanks
b

"MikeG" <justme@idontkno.com> wrote in message
news:a%39h.6380$CR6.4797@tornado.tampabay.rr.com.. .
> What I meant to say is the image is from the Bios, you have no control of
> the image unless you can edit the bios and input a new logo. When I have
> updated my bios, sometimes the initial image is also updated/changed.
> i.e. when I went to a version that supported 2 cores from a single core,
> the new CPU icon was there during bootup. Happens before windows loads.
> Where else would the computer know what brand you had? Some bios's allow
> you to suppress this during bootup.....some don't.
>
> "beenthere" <Waiting@ToHelp.com> wrote in message
> news:VP29h.28220$GX2.24732@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
>>
>> "You Know Who ~" <you.know.who@att.net> wrote in message
>> news:Cl29h.92166$Fi1.44681@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>>> thanks, but I've looked in every single entry box... its not in the
>>> bios.
>>>
>>> "MikeG" <justme@idontkno.com> wrote in message
>>> news:gd29h.16440$lD6.8452@tornado.tampabay.rr.com. ..
>>>>I believe that is part of your BIOS
>>>>
>>>> "You Know Who ~" <you.know.who@att.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:1T19h.334151$QZ1.74679@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>>>>> Greetings and Salutations
>>>>> I have a computer from Microcenter and altogether it works nice and I
>>>>> am in the process of making it nicer. It has one rather annoying
>>>>> feature. On bootup it displays the brand of computer and an Intel
>>>>> logo. This is before windows begins to load. I would much prefer to
>>>>> watch the standard bootup screen but I can't figure out where that
>>>>> logo screen is
>>>>> located (there seems to be nothing in the bios to control that).
>>>>>
>> Sorry about the length of my response, looks like my clipboard
>> went mad. <g>.
>>
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