HP Dc7900 BIOS Flash Q&A White Paper - Page 17

above cannot be flashed into the ROM part. The utility allows browsing through directories on the current disk. The images found can be viewed and a background color and a foreground color can be chosen from the colors in the image's palette. The utility also has a command line option to quickly flash a new image. The image stored in the BIOS will be compressed with RLE4. If the image being flashed is already in RLE4, the image flashed will be identical to the original except the second byte in the Bitmap Header will be a checksum. If an uncompressed bitmap is flashed, the Image Flash Utility will encode it using RLE4 and save it. Therefore, when using the save (/s) feature to get the current image, the newly saved image will be in RLE4 format, regardless of the format of the original image. Usage to Flash Image: Normal: Flashi.exe Command Line Mode: Flashi.exe [Image_File] [Foreground_Color] [Background_Color] The normal execution method will provide the user with additional interaction so that the image can be selected from various files and a preview can be seen before the image is committed to the BIOS. There is only a command line mode to save the current image. You cannot save the current image under an existing file name. Usage to Save Current Splash Image (command line only): Command Line Mode: Flashi.exe /s name How do I update the ME firmware in Vista, Windows XP, or Windows 2000? FWUpdLcl.exe utility in the ME Flash\Local-Win directory is designed to update the ME firmware within a local Windows environment. For more information and utility options, view the readme.txt file located in the ME Flash\Local-Win folder. The ME can be updated by executing the following command "FWUpdLcl.exe -generic". The ME Flash folder contains a binary update image for the ME. The binary image file is named XXX_bbbb.bin where "XXX" is the abbreviated ME firmware version and "bbbb" is the build version number. For example, 210_1028.bin is the ME update file version 2.1.0 with the build number of 1028. The update binary image and the Local-Win folder contents can be copied to any Windows accessible media such as a CD/DVD or USB flash media device, including HP Drive Key and M-Systems DiskOnKey. The following image shows the successful completion of the ME FW update process in a Windows XP environment. The update process will stay at the "Performing Update..." step for most of the time. 17