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    np8662/M860TU BIOS upgrade - ugly windows 95 bar

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by greenfish, Nov 16, 2010.

  1. greenfish

    greenfish Notebook Geek

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    Hi! I just updated my BIOS to 0.17, tried both clevo's and sager one. And they both looks like .

    By that i'm talking about the ugly windows 98 status bar or what ever you call it before boot loader kicks in to boot your choice of os.

    Is there any way to remove the windows 95 looking status bar and just have a clean and simple logo?

    Thank You :)
     
    greenfish, Nov 16, 2010
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  2. pkhetan

    pkhetan CopyLEFT ↄ⃝

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    It was always like this even before the .17 BIOS, wasn't it?
     
    pkhetan, Nov 16, 2010
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  3. greenfish

    greenfish Notebook Geek

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    Hi! I'm not sure, my np8662 came with the 0.16 version and it didn't have any bar at all to be honest, hell not even a logo.

    Sounds like this is something I have to live with :p

    Thanks
     
    greenfish, Nov 16, 2010
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  4. pasoleatis

    pasoleatis Notebook Deity

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    Can you make a picture of it?
     
    pasoleatis, Nov 16, 2010
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  5. niffcreature

    niffcreature ex computer dyke

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    well, you could try some branded BIOS, but that seems silly to me.

    My m570tu has a style note BIOS. I think it might still have the bar though.
     
    niffcreature, Nov 17, 2010
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  6. Blacky

    Blacky Notebook Prophet

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    You could disable to boot splash screen. I always do that.
     
    Blacky, Nov 17, 2010
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  7. Paralel

    Paralel Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm really failing to see what the issue is here...

    It's not like this is something one has to stare at for hours on end each day...
     
    Paralel, Nov 17, 2010
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  8. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    You're talking about the blue bar, which appears under the Style-Note, yes?

    That's been there since the launch day M860TU shipped. It's going nowhere.
     
    Kevin, Nov 17, 2010
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