Ampro Corporation Littleboard 550 Splash Screen Customization, Splash Screen Image Requirements

Chapter 4 BIOS Setup

Splash Screen Customization

The LittleBoard 550 BIOS supports a graphical splash screen, which can be customized by the user and displayed on screen when enabled through the BIOS Setup Utility. The graphical image can be a company logo or any custom image the user wants to display during the boot process. The custom image can be displayed as the first image displayed on screen during the boot process and remain there, depending on the options selected in BIOS Setup, while the OS boots.

Splash Screen Image Requirements

The user’s image may be customized with any bitmap software editing tool, but must be converted into an acceptable format with the tools (files and utilities) provided by Ampro. If the custom image is not converted with the utilities provided, then the image will not display properly when this field is selected in BIOS Setup.

NOTE	Do not use other splash screen conversion tools, as these will render an
	image that is not compatible with the LittleBoard 550 BIOS.

The splash screen image supported by the LittleBoard 550 BIOS should be:

•Bitmap image

•Exactly 640x480 pixels

•Exactly 16 colors

•A converted file size of not greater than 55kB

Converting the Splash Screen File

The following files are provided by Ampro on the LittleBoard 550 Doc & SW CD-ROM and are required for converting a custom splash screen file. Refer to the CD-ROM for the utilities and an example of how to load a custom image in the lb550\software\examples\splash directory.

•	splash.bmp	•	resplash.com
•	convert.exe	•	lb550.bin

•convert.idf

The process of converting and loading a custom image onto the LittleBoard 550 involves the following sequence of events:

•Prepare directory for conversion (create directory and copy files into it)

•Obtain the LittleBoard 550 BIOS binary

•Prepare the custom image file

•Convert the image to an acceptable BIOS format

•Merge the image with BIOS binary to create new BIOS binary

•Load the new BIOS binary onto the LittleBoard 550

NOTE	You can use any Windows PC to convert the custom image, but your
	PC must have an internet browser to access, view, and make selections
	in the main menu of the LittleBoard 550 Doc & SW CD-ROM.
	For example: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x, or greater, Netscape
	Navigator version 4.x, or greater, or the equivalent.

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