Thread: Setting Boot Display Settings

Every time you power up your machine, there are a few lines of text that appear at the top of the screen-information about your graphics card. NiBiTor lets you set your own custom text and colours-your name, for example, and other fun bits of text (you could make it look like you have an 8800 Ultra). With the BIOS loaded in NiBiTor, click on the Boot Settings tab. The OEM Signon tab has a preview of what the default text looks like. Adv. Signon has detailed information about the graphics card. Make any changes, or put your own text here. If you click on the droIXlown for Boot Display mode, you can set a resolution, and you'll have coloured text instead of the standard grey using the droIXlown menu for text colour. Click Apply when done.



NiBiTor only allows you to modify bits of the BIOS; it doesn't flash the card for you. Once you're done tweaking, you need to use a BIOS flashing tool such as NVFlash to flash the card. Put NVFlash on a floppy disk along with the BIOS file you edited. If you don't have a FDD, you can use a USB drive and get DOS running on it. A software called HP USB Boot Storage Format Tool can be used to format a USB drive with a bootable DOS image on it. Use a bootable DOS image to create a bootable DOS drive. Set the USB drive as the primary boot disk in your BIOS. Before writing the BIOS, make a backup on your drive of the existing one. This will come in handy if anything goes wrong during the flashing procedure.