Boot time display?

chameleon_789 · Post by **chameleon_789** » April 8th, 2005, 12:07 am

I know this isn't completely relevant to LCDsmartie but I thought I'd ask anyway.. does anyone know of any tools I could use make a small program that runs while windows XP is booting (the scrolling blue bars on the black background). I have a bit of programming experience but I have no idea how this would be done, let alone ANY program that runs during boot. I never thought I'd miss the days of DOS

Post by **IFR** » April 8th, 2005, 6:13 am

use a chronometer or bootvis instead

Twizted · Post by **Twizted** » July 5th, 2005, 9:52 pm

Did anyone accomplish this ? to be able to program a LCD to display something while the PC is booting?

whizz · Post by **whizz** » July 6th, 2005, 9:43 am

I guess it's (almost) impossible. Or you would want to write your own BIOS (with LCD-support), a program thats able to work with less than the Windows kernel (that's what's being loaded while booting), and make it usefull for all versions of Windows. I say it's impossible.

Measuring the boot time is best done with a chronometer.