everytime i turn on my computer the e-machine logo appears (cause it's a e-machine computer) and then the win-me logo. i'm wondering if there's a way that i can change it to something i actually want?

the short answer: yes the slightly longer answer: depends on if you can find an bios in .bin format, and then workout whether you have a phoenix, award or amibios ;) Enf...

i have a phoenix, not sure about the bios yet, if it's easy, just tell me; if it's too hard, forget it.

setup option? 

Some BIOS setups have a "display OEM logo" switch (lots of notebooks etc.) ... maybe yours has one as well?

some of the new gigabyte and msi board have an option to display your own logo , as you desire . not sure if this applys to your bios /mobo though .have you checked the web site?

mine doesn't have an "display OEM logo" feature on the bios, so there's probably nothing i can do; but what about the win-me logo?

has a number of utilities for changing startup screens

it's always the first link i see, (download.com is the first link of my ie) and that solve the problem of the win-me logo. my bios doesn't have QUIET BOOT, but it has something called QUICK BOOT; but what does it have to do with changing my e-machine logo? also, my computer can never seem to power off, it just has a black screen with the underscore line blinking, i just turn the computer off, but it has to go through scandisk every time i turn it on, any help would be appreciate, and would save me some time.

Quick boot just changes what is checked in the system at POST. If it's on, the E-Machines Logo goes away quickly. Where I used to work, turning off QUIET BOOT would force the computer to not display the big blue world logo that that company used. I guess e-Machines is different. In terms of your computer not shutting down, here's a to a Microsoft Article on shut down issues. The article is for Windows 98, but most of the information contained in it should work for Windows ME as well. Hope this helps, :devil: