Microsoft Surface Pro Custom Boot Screen.

[Jerry]

Hello!

Here is the thing I want to do. I want to change the boot screen (where it writes "Surface" and where the loading circle is) of my tablet to a custom image. So far I havent found anything useful.
So far I tried:
- extract bootres.dll, but the BMP pictures that I extracted weren't correct. There were only 6 same, only diffrent sized pictures of pink, blue and yellow fish,
- Boot UI Tuner, without luck.

I was looking everywhere on the internet for any information, but without success.

Maybe you guys can help me?

Thank you for answer.

 

[Igor]

I think you're looking in the wrong place. That "Surface" logo is in the bios/firmware.

 

[mitchellvii]

Jerry my friend, you have too much time on your hands

 

[Omni]

Not possible without serious work. I would forget it. Your more likely to break your Surface.

 

[Jerry]

Thank you for your answers, but I still want to make this work, my boss wants that and I am ready to do serious work. Today I looked in the update of bios (Microsoft Download Center) and opened .rom file with MMtool (image below).

I managed to extract the OEM logo, but it wasn't the 'Surface' logo. It was ASUS logo, weird...

Am I looking now for solution in the right way? Which is the right module in the .rom file where I could find this image or caption of 'Surface'. Can you guys help me solve this problem?

Thank you very much in advance.

 

[tonyz3]

Have you tried looking in the surface section on the XDA DEVELOPER forums. They might have info on this.

 

[Igor]

Thank you for your answers, but I still want to make this work, my boss wants that and I am ready to do serious work. Today I looked in the update of bios (Microsoft Download Center) and opened .rom file with MMtool (image below).

I managed to extract the OEM logo, but it wasn't the 'Surface' logo. It was ASUS logo, weird...

Am I looking now for solution in the right way? Which is the right module in the .rom file where I could find this image or caption of 'Surface'. Can you guys help me solve this problem?

Thank you very much in advance.

Wrong bios. That must be for the OLD Microsoft Surface, what is now known as the "PixelSense" I believe. If you look at the "Date Published" in your link it says "11/16/2009" which is obviously way too early for the Surface Pro.

Try this:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=38826

 

[mitchellvii]

Wrong bios. That must be for the OLD Microsoft Surface, what is now known as the "PixelSense" I believe. If you look at the "Date Published" in your link it says "11/16/2009" which is obviously way too early for the Surface Pro.

Try this:

Download Surface Pro firmware and driver pack from Official Microsoft Download Centre

Are these drivers anything different from what I've already got from just running normal updates?

 

[mitchellvii]

Have you tried looking in the surface section on the XDA DEVELOPER forums. They might have info on this.

Didn't even know xda had a Surface Section. Will have to check it out.

 

[Igor]

Are these drivers anything different from what I've already got from just running normal updates?

I don't think so.

They're just convenient/necessary for enterprise deployment.

You can also use them if you want to install a clean copy of Windows 8 on your SP, not using the recovery image.

 

[tonyz3]

Didn't even know xda had a Surface Section. Will have to check it out.

you are not missing much

 

[ArnoldC]

you are not missing much

Yeah, I lurked there for a while and left