User talk:MindsEyeTHPS

-- New user message (talk) 17:09, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Where to find BIOS bootscreens?
Hello there, I'm just wondering where did you get the BIOS bootscreens for your Biostar page? I can't find any good results when searching for those on Google, as there is very scarce info about it in both websites and images (and most of the results appears to be tech support Q&A). I want to know if there is a site dedicated to collecting these various BIOS screens?

Thanks in advance. Yuuko2K (talk) 00:46, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

I managed to extract the updated BIOS ROMS from BIOSTAR's website via the Wayback Machine (in particular the BIOSTAR ROMs I scouted were AwardBIOSes, hence the following). Then I would load it up with CBROM.EXE (16-bit; I used an NT4 VM to make it happen; can use DOS or any old Windows to run it) into cmd with "CBROM.EXE [insert BIOS ROM file here] /D" (case-sensitive) to fetch a list of the ROM's contents (making sure to look out for instances of "LOGO"), followed by "CBROM.EXE [insert BIOS ROM file here] /[LOGO ID] /extract", where I would be prompted to enter a name to save the extracted file as, which I would do [somefilename.pcx] or [somefilename.epa]. After saving it, I would copy the extracted file over to my host system. On my host, I would use Konvertor to convert it from EPA to BMP (so as to make it easily viewable in a common picture format). I then load the newly converted BIOS splash into mspaint and then save it as a PNG, and the upload it to AVID.

Hope that answers your question! :) MindsEyeTHPS (talk) 02:13, 29 December 2023 (UTC)