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booting a mame cab really fast....

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TurboC--:
What bugs me is, my MAME machine is a Compaq and the damn Compaq logo is on for like 10 seconds every time you turn it on.  Wish I could find a way to disable it... but I think the only way would be to replace the MOBO or flash the BIOS (with a non-existant ROM most likely)

krick:

--- Quote from: TurboC-- on October 04, 2005, 12:13:50 pm ---What bugs me is, my MAME machine is a Compaq and the damn Compaq logo is on for like 10 seconds every time you turn it on.  Wish I could find a way to disable it... but I think the only way would be to replace the MOBO or flash the BIOS (with a non-existant ROM most likely)

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If you could get a copy of the BIOS file, I bet you could hex-edit out the logo if you could figure out where it was.

You sure someone doesn't have a tool already to do this?

What is the exact compaq model?

Is there any info that says what type of BIOS it is (award, phoenix, ami) while booting?

You might need to hit a key (tab?) while booting to see it.

There might also be an option in the BIOS settings to always show the post information instead of the splash screen.

stratjakt:
If it's the right model you can hack your own spash screen into the BIOS.

But, on topic, what's wrong with just hibernating the PC instead of shutting it down?  It's the same thing, electrically..

krick:

--- Quote from: stratjakt on October 04, 2005, 03:42:04 pm ---If it's the right model you can hack your own spash screen into the BIOS.

But, on topic, what's wrong with just hibernating the PC instead of shutting it down?  It's the same thing, electrically..


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1) Hibernation doesn't work with DOS or Win9x

2) If you have 4GB of memory, it has to save and restore a 4GB hibernation file.  I can't imagine this would be very fast.

3) Rebooting a computer from time to time is good because it cleans up memory leaks and whatnot.  If you always hibernate, this never happens.

Flinkly:
well first, what is the problem we're looking to solve?  speed of bootup, or being able to see the bootup screens for 30 seconds?  if you wanted to shut it down normally, then just to that, start it back up, and then hibernate it.  my problem with hibernation is that damn password thing when it starts back up, otherwise i'd just hibernate.  as for hiding the screens, why not just turn your monitor on after you know it's in your FE, like a delayed power on, pwerstrip can do that up to 35 seconds.

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