Cbrom Exe Bios

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We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Dec 22, 2014 - CBROM.EXE V1.98 [08/27/08] (C)Phoenix Technologies 2001-2008. Extract: Extract option ROM to File in current system BIOS InputFile.

AWBMTools a pair of utilities for creating full-screen BIOS Boot logos For the VIA EPIA motherboard *NEW RELEASE* 12/04/03 This version no longer chokes on greyscale TIFFs that have alpha channels, and copes better with greyscale images in general. WARNING: Flashing the BIOS on your computer is risky at the best of times - flashing the BIOS with a modified BIOS image is VERY DANGEROUS and may well result in a non-working motherboard that is very difficult, if not impossible, to resurrect.

You use these programs, and their results entirely at your own risk. If you do come to grief and end up with a machine that won't boot, it may still be possible to resurrect it. If your BIOS chip is removable, will either re-flash it for you, or provide you with a new one, ready flashed with the BIOS of your choice. When I needed a dead motherboard resurrected, my BIOS chip and payment winged their way over to The Netherlands, and the chip was returned, reflashed and working, in around a fortnight:) Background Recent Award BIOS versions have the ability to display a fullscreen boot logo when booting, instead of the usual POST screen.

The logo itself is embedded in the BIOS image, and although its 'filename' has the extension.BMP, it is *not* a BMP file - it's an odd but simplistic format referred to herein as AWBM. Download lagu taylor swift today was a fairytale. The boot logos created by this program have only been tested so far with my VIA EPIA motherboard. In theory they should work with other recent Award BIOS versions that incude full-screen logo support, but I have yet to test this. What does it do? AWBM2TIFF and TIFF2AWBM convert images between 8-bit (256-colour) TIFF and the custom AWBM format used by the EPIA BIOS. What doesn't it do? These programs *CANNOT* modify a BIOS image, or extract logos from a BIOS image.

For that you need a program like CBROM (version 2.xx recommended, Windows only, unfortunately). These programs are only intended for use with full-screen logos - they *CANNOT* be used to create EPA (Energy Star) logos. How do I customise my Boot Logo? First create your logo in a graphics package.

Cbrom Exe Bios

For the EPIA you need to make a 640x480 image with 256 colours. Once you've done that, save it as a TIFF file, and use: tiff2awbm logo.tiff logo.bmp to convert to AWBM format. (The original logo in the EPIA BIOS has the filename VPSD.BMP, though it's most definitely *not* a BMP file.) Now use CBROM to insert this logo into the BIOS image, by typing: CBROM EPIA0207.BIN /logo logo.bmp If this succeeds, you can now flash your machine with the modified BIOS image. Note - if your logo is very elaborate, CBROM may complain that there isn't enough room in the BIOS file.

The EPIA0205.BIN BIOS has about 18k of free space for the logo - but a 640x480x256 image takes about 300k uncompressed. The BIOS image is a basically a catalogue of lha files, so you can use lha to guage how much space your logo will take when it's compressed: lha a test.lha logo.bmp HINT: If you're having trouble keeping your logos small enough, try to avoid dithering, and make sure any gradients are vertical (i.e.