Cf-52pfn32pe bios

Hi, I'm looking for a original Panasonic BIOS for this machine and having a real struggle to find one. All the CF-52 BIOSes I have found are rejected by the flash exe program, can anyone point me in the right direction please?

It currently has 3.00-L12AM33 and the last one I tried to use was 3.00-L14 using update tool version 3.01L17.

I should point out that my main motivation is a fairly frivolous one - I want to change the ugly OEM BIOS splash screen! I should point out that the computer boots fine and everything else seems to work ok.

Thank you for any and all suggestions, I gather people have worked magic with modding BIOSes for previous Toughbooks but couldn't find much about this one when searching.

 

How does flashing the bios change the "much hated by me" splash screen?

 

No idea, I'm new here - you tell me! Perhaps my post wasn't clear though - it has a custom i.e. not Panasonic splash screen at power-on (a big utility company), and since it has nothing to do with them anymore I would like it to look 'factory'.

Not the most pressing problem obviously, but you know how easy it is to get obsessed by these little details!

As far as it's relationship to flashing the bios goes, I'm sure I've read some posts on here where people were able to change it by 'rolling their own' BIOS? Hence the post.

 

I see.
I "normal" flash would change that back to the Panasonic logo. I have never seen one with a corporate logo. The am33 at the end of your bios does indicate that it is a special bios. I have a mk2 so I can't help. I suggest that you back up you original bios first. Would you email me a copy of it?? I would like to have a copy for whatever future use.
I want to turn the Panasonic logo off on my unit. I want to be able to see the text of what is going on during boot/post. I have not figured out how to do that permanently.

 

There are a lot of ready to use tools out there to change the boot logo in the different bios types.
Ferrisio is right, it is possible to use the standard BIOS for a CF-52P.

If everything is normal on ur system u will see the Panasonic logo. If there is a stop-error with user interaction, u can see the normal boot sequence, like u know from a standard pc, with the error message. I.e. just start the system with a dead clock battery will give u this information...