so, I got this 280 desktop from goodwill, no os or hard drive. works great, but when it comes up above the dell logo it says "Property of Northrop Grunmann". I reflashed the bios and it still says it. anyone know if there is an advanced hidden menu to change this text? I want to resell it. more of an inconvenience really.
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Re: GX280 bios custom text
ook thats what its called, found an updated one that was released in 2006 from research, haven't tried it yet though but thaaank you!Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
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Re: GX280 bios custom text
ahhhh damnit. this thing requires a floppy to boot and run the program
only floppies I can find I got for free by a local business I did work for. I just looked them, they're 720kCap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
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Re: GX280 bios custom text
i bet that if you added it to a .iso for win 98, boot with cdrom support, and in the resulting command line have it run D:\xxx.exe (or whatever .exe it is), you could run it. or does the program you downloaded ask for a floppy disk?
since isomaster is freeware for linux (and I use linux), I often use that trick to make bios update CD's.sigpic
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Re: GX280 bios custom text
make a bootable USB stick with that tool on it.
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Re: GX280 bios custom text
You can try doubling the capacity by drilling the correct hole on the right hand side. 1.44MB floppies have this hole while 720K floppies don't. If they are newer ones they should work, they were actually 1.4MB ones with half capacity disabled.
Even if not, If you change the BIOS floppy drive option to 720K you should be able to use them. As long as they can hold enough data, of course!"Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
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Re: GX280 bios custom text
the program itself needs a 1.44, windows sees it fine like 720
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You can punch a hole in the side of the floppy so it is recognized as a 1440KB floppy...
Google for it, but to do this when working with critical data is just silly (BIOS tools)
Get a USB flash drive, format it using the "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool"
Here is an excellent guide with both the program and required Win98 Boot files...
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Re: GX280 bios custom text
throw the files on a hiren's cd and boot to dos. or throw on a usb stick and boot off the cd. works on 90% of stuff.Comment
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