Ampro Corporation MightyBoard 821 manual Logo screen, Logo Screen Image Requirements

Chapter 4 BIOS Setup

8.Restore power to the MightyBoard 821 and look for the screen prompt shown below.

Hit ^C if you want to run SETUP

9.Press the F4 key to enter Setup (early in the boot sequence if Quick Boot is set to [Enabled].) If Quick Boot is set to [Enabled], you may never see the screen prompt.

10.Use the <Enter> key to select the screen menus listed in the Opening BIOS screen.

NOTE The serial console port is not hardware protected. Diagnostic software that probes hardware addresses may cause a loss or failure of the serial console functions.

Logo screen

The MightyBoard 821 BIOS supports a graphical logo screen, which can be customized by the user and displayed 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.

Logo Screen Image Requirements

The user’s image may be customized with any image editing tool, and the system will automatically convert the image into an acceptable format to the tools (files and utilities) provided by Ampro. The MightyBoard 821 Logo Screen utility supports the following image formats:

•Bitmap image

♦16-Color, 640x480 pixels

♦256-Color, 640x480 pixels

•JPG image

♦16-Color, 640x480 pixels

♦256-Color, 800x600 pixels

♦256-Color, 1024x768 pixels

•PCX image

♦256-Color, 640x480 pixels

•A file size of not greater than 40kB

NOTE For procedures on loading custom images, see the logo screen utility document available on the Ampro website.

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