EZ BIOS?

[jester]

I recently upgraded from a 1.2g hard drive to a 6.4g.The new drive has EZ BIOS.I am not familliar with this program.Any help is great,but the problems began when I upgraded from Win95 to Win98.During boot,the Win98 logo is displayed,then the Win95 logo.How can I modify this safely?

[Ygor]

Hmmm, let's start with your motherboard. If you've upgraded to the latest Bios for it, you may not need EZ Bios at all.

As for the 2 Win boot screens, you should be able to eliminate one by installing Tweakui from the Win98 disk. (I hear it may not be on the Win98 SE cd, but it is on the original.)
However, the fact that you get both screens sounds like there may be more to deal with. Did you use an upgrade to Win98 from Win95? I don't recall seeing those myself, maybe someone else has?

[RataToo]

If I were you, before I even let my self get stressed out, I would remove ez-bios. It is very evil and does odd things. If your mother board can support large hard drives (and most new ones do) you dont need to partition it a million times.

[Dave_H]

Here is an article that may help with the logo screen.
Windows 95 Logo Displayed When You Start Windows 98 (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q254/2/68.ASP)
Dave

[jpheg]

EZ-BIOS (and its cousin, EZ-drive) don't even do what they're supposed to do very well, either.
Four years ago I purchased an old 486 with a 2.1 gig HDD, all under warrenty. Well, we must have cost the company about $600 because every time we complained about repetitive HD crashes on booting up (incuding some interesting "Greek" mumbo jumbo on the screen) they would just smile, nod, and replace the drive and software for us. They finally gave up and gave us a pentium computer for all our trouble.

...
Probably more to get rid of a problem they couldn't fix :-)

[Brangwen]

Dave_H, very resourceful posting that link. It's great to have that info referenced with some of the other stuff I've archived from this site. Learn something new everyday. Pretty obscure!

Brangwen http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[spark]

About the EZ-bios, I've got a question. My computer is manufactured in 1996 and don't know what kind of motherboard it has. It's pheonix Bios and I forgot the version (bad memory). The original hard drive was 2Gb, I replaced it with a 13.2Gb one. It's western digital product, come with a install floppy. After install the hard disk, the only OS on it was IO.sys, command.com and another file ( forgot the name again). Everytime I boot the computer, a Ez-bios table would show up and ask me if I want to boot from floppy or hard drive. I reformat the hard disk and installed Win98 se on it. Later on replaced Win98 with Linux, the machine seems work fine. Does that mean that I don't need the EZ-bios support for a large hard disk after all?

[Paul Hubrich]

I know some people have had problems with EZ-BIOS, but I have a 10.2 G drive with EZ-BIOS installed that I've used with three different systems. It has given me no trouble at all.

I surely don't need the EZ-BIOS with my current Abit VH6 motherboard, but the drive works flawlessly and benchmarks well. Why bother fixing it if it ain't broke??