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    [Alienware 17 R3] How to restore Alienware's boot animation?

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by Ezio99, Nov 7, 2016.

  1. Ezio99

    Ezio99 Notebook Geek

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    Hi I just dual booted with Ubuntu. Now when I select windows in grub menu, the generic windows 10 animation shows up instead of original Alienware's one. Is there a way to restore it?

    Thank you.
     
    Ezio99, Nov 7, 2016
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  2. sirleeofroy

    sirleeofroy Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm pretty sure the Alienware boot logo is part of the UEFU/Secureboot which you have to turn off to install Linux.
     
    sirleeofroy, Nov 8, 2016
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  3. Ezio99

    Ezio99 Notebook Geek

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    Before dual boot, I made UEFI - on, secure boot - off, and AHCI. After all this, there was still Alienware logo.
    But after installing Ubuntu, it's gone.

    I am thinking maybe replacing grub with windows bootloader might help?

    Also immediately after Ubuntu installation, the boot logo was all garbled and could see only circling dots. Rest of the screen was purple. I read this was due to mismatch between resolution of grub screen and resolution of the boot logo. So I changed the resolution of grub to 1024x768. Only then I could see the boot logo. But the circling dots got all huge and the resolution of the windows 10 boot logo also changed to 1024x768.

    May be this has something to do?

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    Ezio99, Nov 8, 2016
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  4. sirleeofroy

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    You might be on to something with the windows bootloader, unfortunately I'm not much use on the matter as it never really bothered me what logo came up when booting! As long as I got to my desktop in a timely manner, all was good!
     
    sirleeofroy, Nov 8, 2016
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  5. Vasudev

    Vasudev Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You're running in SB mode and not in legacy mode. Grub resolution can only be fixed through setting the boot order by giving Win MBR to boot first then ubuntu. If you want to goto Linux, choose advanced startup method in Settings app and Choose Ubuntu. Or else Click on power, Hold shift button and hit Restart and choose appropriate Bootloader.
     
    Vasudev, Nov 8, 2016
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  6. DeeX

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    Flash the BIOS again.
     
    DeeX, Nov 8, 2016
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  7. raiden87

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    Be sure that u disabled legacy boot, but this is pretty normal behavior with dual booting Linux. There is no way to "restore" the alienware logo, cause it isn't gone.
    The Logo will apear again if u do install windows only.
     
    raiden87, Nov 9, 2016
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