Can a personal or company logo be added to my system's boot up process?

#1. The BIOS. Toshiba, Dell, Compaq pretty much all of the bigger system
manufacturers display bit mapped images of their Logo's or Model & System
names via the BIOS. The display normally takes place during the time the
BIOS is booting the system where on a generic system one would be
watching the memory being checked /sized, Attached IDE devices being
setup and names displayed etc.
When the logo is being displayed there is usually a mechanism such as
Press <F2> to enter setup , press <ESC> to view Boot sequence, checking
the system manual will reveal the keys to press to bypass the logo
display on your particular system.

When you start one of these machines with power it will display TOSHIBA
for example .. regardless of the operating system windows, Linix, DOS
that one boots the system into.

We have built several customized BIOS for companies that had software
products running on specific machines where they wished to display their
company logo as opposed to the standard BIOS post screens that you see on
a generic machine.

I have seen the code to implement 7 or 8 images in what could be used to
develop a slide show to be displayed during power up, or perhaps some
sort of instructions with each logo written in a different language.


#2. Windows has a facilty of replacing the standard Windows Front Window,
their Logo.sys file. Replace that with your own bit mapped image. It is your
image that you will then see, this is usually done by software providers
and gives the presentation that it their system and not their
application running on a Windows platform.