Rate My XPS M1330 BIOS Screen

I know customizing the BIOS screen is a really old school. Never the less, I was as giddy as a school girl when I found out I could do it to my new XPS M1330. All you need is a usb flash drive, an image editing program, and a copy of the spl2 post bitmap update utility from Dell.com. For my newest screen I went totally geeky, but you can use any image you want though. The last time I did this was like 6 years ago to my Inspiron 4000.

I started with a wide screen vista wallpaper, and layered on the geekdom in Photoshop.



When you are satisfied, flatten your layers, resize the image to 640 x 480 (I also squished mine horizontilly so it's normal when streched). Change the color index to 16 colors, force black and white and then Save As 4 bit bitmap. You can use dither or pattern for a nicer effect.




If you have it set with a BIOS password and press Power or ESC at the password screen it displays for like a minute on the next boot-up (good for if it is ever lost or stolen). Here is the finished product

 

A bit much for my tastes... but do you have any guides on how to do it?

 

Can't that Void your warranty?

 

Here is the one that came up when I googled M1330 and change post bitmap, hence my giddy school girlness that Dell still allows this.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t468079.html

Dell originally released the utility so I doubt it would void your warranty, you can remove it easily too.

 

That looks absolutely hideous.

 

Don't hold back tell me what you really think...ROFL

 

Well, you said you wanted it rating, so I put on my Cowell trousers...

 

Nevermind, question already answered. Boy I sure type slow