Changing BIOS ROG Logo

[GM Rod]

Hello!

My motherboard is an ASUS ROG Rampage V Extreme U3.1.
Meaning it should be easy to change the logo via EZ Update, right?
Nope.

 

I've tried to use that to flash a BIOS in a pen drive numerous times, then booting into BIOS setup and re-flashing the BIOS from the drive, to no avail.

I've also tried alternative methods, such as using MyLogo2 but that app just crashes halfway through.

HELP. I just want my own logo on the BIOS boot screen. Can't be so hard.

[Radium_Angel]

Are you certain it can be done at all? Messing about with a BIOS is a good way to brick your PC, are you certain you want to take that chance?

[GM Rod]

The official software in the motherboard suite has an utility to do it. So no, it won't brick anything.

[Radium_Angel]

If the official software won't work, then I'd drop the mobo maker a line and ask why. Perhaps the image you want to insert is too big?

[GM Rod]

The tool has a preview feature... it shows it'd display fine. But even so, I followed the instructions I found in more than one other place and saved it as 640x480 16-bit BMP.

The preview also works if it's still saved as JPG though so I'm confused...
I think it's not actually inserting the new logo in the BIOS when it flashes.

Because when I flash the BIOS, it acts as if it was the first time booting it (i.e. it forces me to go into BIOS settings), but the logo remains unchanged.

[GM Rod]

Help!

[GM Rod]

UEFI.

Hmmm maybe that's it. I actually contacted ASUS on this, let's see what they say!

In the meantime, anyone else have any ideas?

[GM Rod]

So, yeah, they replied. The instructions they gave me were bogus, none of the screens I see have what they said they'd have so I'm assuming they didn't even use the same version of the software.

They did suggest I roll back to a previous BIOS version and then try to jump back into the new one, but as I suspected, it didn't work.

 

I mean if you have two BIOS files, and one contains a logo you JUST inserted into it, it should have a "modified" date of today, right?

So... ran out of ideas. Help.