Changing XP Boot Screens

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 9:48 am

Has anyone ever done it? If so, were you successful?

No Name · Post by **No Name** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 9:54 am

I've done it. I had a matrix one for a while.

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 9:59 am

I am about to do it, but the screen i downloaded.. http://www.themexp.org/view_info.php?id=49

its file name is "ntoskrnl_original.exe"

but the file that needs to be overwrote is "ntoskrnl.exe"

should i just rename it to the actual ORIGINAL one?

No Name · Post by **No Name** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 10:13 am

rename it, and backup your old file

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 12:25 pm

to whoever else that wants to try it, be very careful. i just did it, file must have been corrupt. fux0red stuff up, sat at boot upscreen, then just kept restarting. had to format.

lol, i just formatted on friday too.

Narcissus · Post by **Narcissus** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 12:37 pm

I've done it a few times... never had a problem. Just lucky I guess.

EverStoned · Post by **EverStoned** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 12:50 pm

Xylene wrote:to whoever else that wants to try it, be very careful. i just did it, file must have been corrupt. fux0red stuff up, sat at boot upscreen, then just kept restarting. had to format.

lol, i just formatted on friday too.

Feckin' hell! I was gonna change it...now I'm not so sure...

pavelbure · Post by **pavelbure** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 1:02 pm

i used to change mine, but for some reason one day it stopped using it. i got a invalid bootcfg error, or something like that. windows still loaded it just didnt show any boot screen. i had a cool mr. burns boot screen.

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 1:07 pm

well darc just informed me on XP, that if you have SP1, some boot screens dont work with Sp1, and that means you can fuck shit up. so if you have sp1, be very careful. sp1 caused my problems i am thinking

EverStoned · Post by **EverStoned** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 1:27 pm

Xylene wrote:well darc just informed me on XP, that if you have SP1, some boot screens dont work with Sp1, and that means you can fudge poop up. so if you have sp1, be very careful. sp1 caused my problems i am thinking

Damn, I got that.

Firthy2002 · Post by **Firthy2002** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 1:38 pm

Can you get ones that let you play music when it's loading?

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 8:29 pm

Think of what file you're overwriting here: ntoskrnl.exe

That's "NT Operating System Kernel" as far as I can make out. Official description of the file is "NT Kernel & System". Basically, it's the part that makes XP work.

It's not a good idea to play around with that unless you know what you're doing, because it could blow up your PC. You're essentially replacing part of the OS itself, and if you use SP1 and replace that component with an older version, you're asking for trouble.

That said, if you're careful, it should work fine.

pavelbure - That's caused by the file BOOT.INI in C:\ being corrupted or missing. It just uses default settings, which will work in most circumstances, but it'll show that warning message instead of the boot screen.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 9:19 pm

EverStoned wrote:
Xylene wrote:to whoever else that wants to try it, be very careful. i just did it, file must have been corrupt. fux0red stuff up, sat at boot upscreen, then just kept restarting. had to format.

lol, i just formatted on friday too.
Feckin' hell! I was gonna change it...now I'm not so sure...

Same here

Post by **Roofus** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 10:02 pm

If you back the file up first before you fuck with it, you should be fine. The worst you'll have to do is copy it back through the recovery console.

pavelbure · Post by **pavelbure** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 10:18 pm

BlackAura wrote:pavelbure - That's caused by the file BOOT.INI in C:\ being corrupted or missing. It just uses default settings, which will work in most circumstances, but it'll show that warning message instead of the boot screen.

thats what i was getting. i forgot the correct name. thanks.

butters · Post by **butters** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 11:25 pm

Roofus wrote: If you back the file up first before you fu[i][/i]ck with it, you should be fine. The worst you'll have to do is copy it back through the recovery console.

Nice way to bypass the word filter Roofus

BTW, I had to quote it that way because I turned off BBCode in this post to show how he did it.

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:44 am

Roofus wrote:If you back the file up first before you fuck with it, you should be fine. The worst you'll have to do is copy it back through the recovery console.

yeah i could have done that, becuase its a dos prompt. thats how i ended up formatting, threw there, i did back it up. but really i couldnt remember the exact folder i backed it up too.

Post by **|darc|** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:58 am

Just make sure if you use SP1 you get a boot screen that uses the SP1 ntoskrnl.exe. I replaced my boot screen earlier yesterday and had NO PROBLEM. The zip my boot screen came in had ntoskrnl.exe and ntoskrnlSP1.exe, one for normal and one for SP1.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 8:49 am

pavelbure - Here's how to fix it.

Create a new file in C:\ called BOOT.INI.

Drop this in BOOT.INI:

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[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect

Next, start a command prompt, and type this:

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attrib c:\boot.ini -a +s +h

That should fix it.