Dell Splash screen appearing on startup - not on a Dell PC!

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Just rebuilt my PC with a new SSD.

Now I'm pretty sure this issue has occurred due to me also rebuilding a Dell at the same time and having a BIOS ROM on a flash drive. I seem to recall leaving the flash drive plugged into this PC when it booted.

Now on every startup I get a dell splash screen on bootup:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/40639222/2013-06-25 22.36.47.mov

Youtube link here:
http://youtu.be/wZA_1LZ6wDU

Apologies for the length of the video, but I wanted to get it all in.

Anyone have any suggestions on what its done and how to fix? I really don't want to have to rebuild, so If I can avoid it I'd prefer that option!

Cheers :)
 
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Does the PC still work? Have you tried reflashing the BIOS on the system?

EDIT: Saw the video... what happens if you was to boot off the disk instead? Just in case you somehow got some Dell files on the Windows install :p.
 
PC works fine - I haven't flashed the BIOS on this board (and ironically didn't on the Dell either).

It just annoys me every time I boot the PC.
 
It appears as though dropbox didn't move my file to public correctly. Move it and checked this time - also added youtube link for those that prefer that.
 
Yup, that's not the BIOS

The BIOS screen is the Asus flash. It's stuff still on the hard drive / SSD.

To confirm this, boot from a bootable CD, if you don't see the Dell bit, then it's on the hard drive not the motherboard BIOS.

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To remove it

Boot from something like this..

http://partedmagic.com/doku.php

Then remove all partitions on the SSD using Gparted (it's on that disk)

Now boot from a Windows disc and reinstall Windows.
 
Reinstall Windows???
Dell use a custom bootloader to chainload their recovery program or Windows as appropriate, and it's very probable this has managed to get onto there somehow.
Try this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32523/how-to-manually-repair-windows-7-boot-loader-problems/

Having said that, I'd be trying it from a *fresh*, clean Windows disk, as if your Windows disk was a Dell one, this may be embedded in there :)

Otherwise, just ignore it.....

-Leezer-
 
Thanks for all the responses guys. It seems I may have caused a bit of confusion with my original post.

I was building this pc (we will call it Dave), using a standard windows 7 disk

At the same time

I was building a Dell PC (we will call it Harry) and was downloading drivers and BIOS updates for that.

I left a usb key, destined for Harry in Dave and I think this is where the issue has come from...

I'll have a look at the boot loader stuff, as I think that's likely to be the issue.

As I've said I've had no issues with Dave, other than the annoying Dell message, so I'm reluctant to format it as I've just literally got everything installed.
 
Interested to see the contents of the root of C:, with hidden files shown. I'm thinking Dell use a syslinux bootloader, if so should be easy to remove
 
Yup, I reckon it's got a small dell partition for tools etc at the start of the drive. Nothing to do with the Usb stick..

Had the ssd come from a feel machine? Or did you use a ďell windows dvd?
 
oops, had no idea this had further replies

Disk managment:


C:\


Going to have a look at the boot loader stuff

The drive was a brand new SSD from Crucial
The W7 DVD was a standard one from MS

So nothing branded with DELL other than the USB key with a Dell BIOS has touched it!
 
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/8543/bzxl.jpg

The plot thickens. I can't get the Windows Repair utility to pickup my windows install on my SSD at present, so I'm going to have to resolve that first before attempting the boot manager stuff.

EDIT-For some reason imageshack preview isn't working - but you can click on the image to view it.

TDLR - there is a 1mb partition on the drive, I assume for the Dell stuff.
 
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It's a bootloader/recovery partition, check disk management for hidden partitions.

Check bcedit /enum and paste output here.
 
Might be best to do a clean install this time without any Dell stuff roaming around :p.

On the other hand for imageshack you could just do this:

Code: 
[img]Direct link[/img]

That will get the images to appear full size on here.
 
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