B&R Industries Power Panel 300, User Manual

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Power Panel 300/400 User's Manual V 2.30
• The system must be rebooted after a successful upgrade.
• In the BIOS CMOS setup, the display of the boot logo must be set from "No" to "Yes" (see
section 1.3.9 "Miscellaneous configuration" on page 448).
3.4.2 Guidelines for creating a user boot logo
To update the user boot logo, a bitmap must be created according to the following guidelines and
then copied to the user boot logo upgrade disk:
1) A Windows bitmap with a maximum of 256 colors must be created with the appropriate
resolution for the Power Panel: 320x240 (QVGA), 640x480 (VGA), 800x600 (SVGA) or
1024x768 (XGA). The bitmap is not allowed to be compressed.
2) Since status messages are output on the top of the display when booting the Power Panel,
there should not be any user boot logo pixels positioned here in the bitmap (approximately
10 pixel stripes), as these will be cross-faded. These status messages use bitmap palette
index 0 as the background color and index 7 as the foreground color (starting from BIOS
V1.05; index 63 with older versions).
3) Using the utility USERLOGO.EXE, the bitmap file must then be converted into a ROM file
that can be read by BIOS (please refer to the online help for the utility for more instructions
about this).
4) The userlogo.rom file created by the utility is only permitted to have a maximum size of
192 KB. If this size is exceeded, a warning appears. The user can e.g. reduce the details in
the Windows bitmap in order not to exceed the maximum byte size.
5) After this, the userlogo.rom file should be copied to the disk.
3 Save BIOS boot logo The user boot logo is automatically saved in the file BOOTLOGO.SAV.
Information:
It's necessary to have up to 192 KB of free space on the disk.
4 Delete BIOS boot logo An existing user boot logo is deleted in the flash.
5 Exit Returns to the shell (MS-DOS).
Information:
If you do not press a button within 5 seconds, then step 1 "Update BIOS User Boot
Logo" is automatically carried out and the Power Panel is automatically updated.
Item Menu item Description
Table 180: User boot logo upgrade menu description (Forts.)