Removing Akhilesh Yadav wallpaper does not cause laptops to crash

Turns out, changing the Akhilesh Yadav wallpaper on the free HP laptops given out by the UP government recently, does not cause the system to crash. Following reports that claimed the laptops crashed when the students changed the default wallpaper, tech2 got in touch with Vishnu Mohan, the marketing manager with the UP Electronic Corporation Limited – the agency that had distributed the laptops. He told us that changing the default wallpaper on the laptop did not cause the system to crash. Mohan explained that students tried to change the BIOS splash screen that loads on boot, which caused the laptop to crash. “The BIOS image cannot be changed,” he said. Click here for full story