I suppose this can belong here, hence technology.
The thought crossed my mind, what is it that causes the company logo when you switch on your pc? for example at the moment i own a dell studio xps 8100 and when i switch it on the first screen has dells logo and bios settings down the bottom. this happens with all other like HP etc. why does this appear, is it the motherboard within the system? or the OS that comes standard with it? :retard:
Thanks.
its the mobo.
For my Rig, It shows The ASUS Logo shortly after startup
(my system uses an ASUS M3A78-EM)
so for example if i removed my Dell mother board and chucked this one in : https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002N2Z0KI/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=A1AUCPBF2P18HS
id most likely have something along the lines of that, Intel etc. this also include that fact my motherboard is shit, and wish a new one with a new case and psu to replace what i have atm.
If I’m Correct, YES, it should instead of saying DELL, say “Intel”
(I’m not an expert with this shit, and my Current Mobo has been my Mobo Since assembly by the household’s tech Guru)
thats fair enough, i was just wandering if you could help me here, my dell xps has there stock board in it, if i bought a new mother board, atx style to fit in a new case for example an antec 300 and a new psu say 750watts, i should theoretically be able to transfer everything else over from my dell to this?
Yes, it would change, but you’re an idiot for buying a stock computer just for the processor. You might as well have just bought a mobo, that i5, and the other parts. You’d have saved a lot of money.
I believe the image is actually stored with the BIOS, which is the mobo I guess.
I changed the bootsplash image on my Thinkpad from an IBM logo to tux :retard:
yeah the only reason im doing this is because dells return policy for what i have done could well charge me over £100 for a refund of my computer.
although its not to bad;
i5 750
640gb x 2 7200’s Western Digitals
6.1gb of ram 1333mhz (possibly china cheap havent inspected yet)
graphics card is crap but i was planning on a 5770 series anyway
plus like mcaffe (wouldve gone avg if i didnt have this) over £40’s worth of protection aswell, including everything i got, it COULDVE been worst.
This thread has some responces, thus I closed the other thread. If another moderator feels like moving it that is fine, but for now we will leave this open over here.
Continue folks. Thks!
Cheers, i thought i wouldve got my attention here, tis where i am most of the time.
I’m familiar with Dell’s XPS 8000 series. I’m on one now. It’s around $800-$1200 USD, which is probably still fairly expensive for you as well. You could’ve gotten the same/better processor, bigger hard drive, more RAM, better video card for less money without going to Dell in the first place. The only reason I have one is because my parents bought it for me for Christmas.
$1,068.65
£700
they had a £309 price reduction on dells site.
Since the image most likely appears prior to any POSTing and other booting processes, my assumption here is that the graphic is in the motherboard’s ROM. Even if you powered on without any hard drives, you’d still get the graphic on the POST screen.
Makes sense.
EDIT : CTID, also got a free Western digital 320gb drive, ripped outta ma old pc i didnt pay a penny towards, my mothers ex left it here 
ill format and chuck that in.
I get a giant ascii sailboat.
I’ve got: ASUS - ROCK SOLID HEART TOUCHING
How many times I have cried when it freezez to that screen.
…Yeah, along with boot messages that generally go as follows, in ALL seriousness.
“blahthing1 found. We hope…”
“blahthing2 found. We hope…”
“blahthing3 found.”
“blahthing3 confirmed.”
“blahthing1 found. For real this time!”
“blahthing2 does not exist. Continuing, pray this doesn’t cause a problem…”
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