Removing Thinkpad Initial Bootup Screen ?

I have performed a clean install of XP Pro onto my IBM/Lenovo T60 thus regaining the hidden 5Gbts of hard drive space previously taken up by the Thinkpad software with which the laptop arrives .

However, I still get the Thinkpad black "DOS-like" screen appearing on bootup.This is immediately followed by the normal XP start-up screen after which the laptop then boots into XP.

Can anyone tell me how I can prevent this Thinkpad screen from appearing on bootup,please?

 

If you are talking about the splash screen that merely shows the IBM logo, then no. All computers will have that. It should also have something like "Hit F10 for BIOS" or similar, right?

 

are you talking about soon as you turn the pc on if so thats your post you cmos you cant get rid of that your pc needs it to run.

 

There is a way to get rid of it. I can't remember off the top of my head. I think it was posted over on ThinkPads.com.

 

Thats one screen you never want to get rid of. You need to be able to get into the bios

 

Thanks for all the replies. What the screen referred to in my original post says is :-
"To interrupt normal Startup press the blue ThinkVantage button"

If I do this it does indeed get me into the screen where I can access the BIOS as stated by one of the repliers to my O.P.

I have no difficulty in accepting the fact that attempting to get rid of this screen would , therefore , probably not be a good idea and the existence of this screen at boot-up is not something that bothers me much.

The reason I posted the comment is that , having got rid of all the ThinkPad stuff contained in the original hidden partition ( as I thought !) and then followed this with a clean installation of XP , I had assumed that the laptop would then boot straight into XP as would any P.C.on which a clean XP Installation had been performed .

My desktop PC , for instance , boots straight into XP and , on that machine , if I want to access the BIOS , I can do this by pressing DEL or F8 ( I forget which !)

I merely wondered whether it was possible to get the laptop to behave similarly .

I can only assume that my effort at eliminating the original IBM installed hidden partition did not result , as I had imagined it would , in producing a "virgin" hard disk free of all IBM imput.

 

If you can turn off the BIOS splash it is always contained in the BIOS menus, just read them all, and look for something that says start up screen. As others have said this is in the flash memory the computer reads on start.

 

Its just a picture, if deleted all your HD partitions and installed from scratch then IBM is gone. However, as I said in my other post, these BIOS boot screen are common. They just cover up the found keyboard, your processor is such and such screen. Many companies let you turn it off. Dell typically lets you turn off the full screen version but leaves you will a smaller logo next to the text which is just as ugly. If you press a key (often escape) while the screen is shown you will see the BIOS status text. If you can turn it off, its an option somewhere in a BIOS menu.

 

Are you guys serious? That splash screen showing lenovo logo and hit thinkvantage button blablabla is not from the harddrive, you can put a new unformatted harddrive in your thinkpad, and it would still show. It has nothing to do with your harddrive nor how clean/messed up your harddrive is.

Edit: I remember seeing a way to get rid of that "screen" or "wallpaper" is you will, and it should not effect functionality if you did it right. It's simply that, screen telling you that you can boot into predesktop by pressing thinkvantage button for those who doesn't know and of course their "branding" It has nothing to do with post

 

It looks like you want to say that there is some screen between BIOS and windows startup screens?
If this is the case, then perhaps you could take a picture or a short video to demonstrate this problem.

 

maybe dell yes, but thts not applicable to thinkpad

formatting hdd and remove all the partition wouldnt help, thts integrated into BIOS

 

When I downloaded the new Vista compatible BIOS for my T60p, there was a readme.txt file included within the package:

Seems like the BIOS update utility allows for custom images or removal of said image(s).

 

No, he simply means the Lenovo flash screen. I guess if you wanted you could potentially get rid of it by reflashing the BIOS or turning off the screen in the BIOS, but why does it matter? If it comes on before the Windows XP screen comes on, it's part of the BIOS and therefore in no way connected to the Harddrive. It's much like the typical Dell screen you see on any desktop before Windows XP loading comes up.

 

I'm not sure if your post was directed to me, but if it was, I was commenting on the removal of the BIOS post image originally questioned by the OP (nothing to do with the HDD). You can either remove the image, or replace it with another image if you wish (using a utility supplied with the latest 1.04 T60p BIOS). The utility comprises of a readme file (posted above), a batch file, a program, and an image of your choice (formatted to the specs above). I suppose if you want to remove it (I haven't tried it myself), you supply a 'black' image. Or maybe if you don't supply an image at all, the program defaults a blank screen...

 

I believe that is what I said, its on the flash on the BIOS not of the disk...