I have a GA-EX58-UD3R (rev 1.6) motherboard. The current BIOS version - FI - has that Energy Star logo. I want to flash to the latest BIOS for it (FK). But it seems that BIOS versions from 2011 onwards don’t have the energy star logo. I want to transfer the Energy Star logo in the FK BIOS as well.
What I’ve already tried: I used CBROM to extract AwardBmp.bmp from the FI bios image, the file directly gets extracted as a valid BMP (NOT .epa) file. Directly trying to insert this bmp into the FK image gives an error (bmp not allowed), so I used EPACoder to convert bmp into epa, renamed the file to “AwardBmp.bmp” and then successfully inserted this into the FK bios image using CBROM.
Flashing this modded FK image gives no issue nor any checksum error, yet when I boot, the logo still can’t be seen in the post screen. Is there any way to get the BIOS to recognize that this logo file exists and to display it?
Why do I want to do this? I used to have a computer with Award BIOS (with the EPA logo) as a kid. I’m trying to replicate that feel the best I can (obviously due to nostalgia). So I’m willing to put in effort to mod. Why not stick with the older BIOS? Seems like the FI bios has a bug in which audio gets garbled with some EAX games (Hitman Contracts), but I’ve confirmed that problem didn’t happen with FK bios.
Any help would be really appreciated!