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Most of the time you can hit escape to get "behind" the brand screen. Otherwise, there will be a key command (like F2 or del) that you can hit to let you into BIOS setup. In the BIOS setup, there should be a selection where you can turn off this screen as well...at least there is on the boxes I have.

If this doesn't help, let us know more about your PC and I'll try to help further.

Good Luck...

Are you talking about the powerup screen when the computer first boots up or the screen when windows first starts up?

Also, I know on certain motherboards (Intel for example) you need to position a jumper, on the motherboard, to get into the bios. You should be able to turn off the splash screen within the bios. Some boards do not have that feature and the splash screen will always be there.

Phill

On Intel motherboards, this "feature" is referred to as "quiet boot"

You need to look through the BIOS settings for things like quiet boot, security, or other like terms in the boot settings area.

Chas

before you upgrade the PC, look in device manager to see what drivers are required when you reinstall the os. Then look on the manufacturer's website and download the drivers for sound, VGA, modem. Most other drivers are included in the os disk. Also make sure you can reinstall your user software such as internet and email setings with your email address & password, wordprocerssing, spreadsheet, games, etc. Backup your valuable data. Then prepare a startup boot floppy disk with cdrom drivers. If you are changing the partition, run fdisk, then format c: Copy the windowes setup files onto the hard disk in a folder like c:\winXP. prepare a msbatch file (not essential) then run setup.exe, and install the device drivers, and your othersoftware.

Hi Tourist Tech

One of the computers on my work's network was a branded Siemens system. I tried everything to remove the branded wallpaper, and to enable editing of win.ini and the registry without it reverting to its original state. I even askeda question about it here (no luck though). I contacted the Siemens priority support line, paid my pennies (a lot of pennies for a supposedly high quality response), and was summarily informed that my best bet was to reformat the hard drive!! I then contacted Siemens via their website, but have never received a response in over 6 months. I even contacted Microsoft about this, but they said that how a manufacturer 'fiddled' with Windows was the manufacturers business, and that they were not obliged to disclose how to get around it.

I know this is a bit of a rant, but I think your best solution may be to upgrade the machine with a genuine copy of Windows. If I had done so from the start, I would have saved myself a lot of time and effort. Rant over!!

If it is part of the firmware in the BIOS which has a copy stored as a .bin file, on hard drive, then it will have to be flashed to get it out. If it is the boot up and/ or shut down screens then if the OS is Windows desktop type find a Bitmap file that you would like to replace them with and in a paint type program save them, one as logos.sys, one as logow.sys and the other as logo.sys.

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