We see this with the C2750D4I, where ASRock Rack (the server department in ASRock) is using an older American Megatrends layout.
The prime example is usually the BIOS, where the server team have not adopted the graphical BIOS layouts of the channel-facing business.
As a result, there can often be a lack of consistency between platforms. This might come across as an over-exaggeration, but it is almost two different companies working in the same building, with different engineering staff, different BIOS teams and different FAEs. There is little crossover to speak of, and only when the firm’s brand is the topic will they meet. As a result, a motherboard BIOS can be almost all gobbledegook.Īs mentioned in previous server motherboard reviews, while a company might release both server and channel products, internally these two teams act almost wholly independently. Almost everything is available to the server administrator, whether he understands it or not. In the server space this does not happen. There is also the concept of that while a setting exists, anything other than the manufacturers recommended setting is ill-advised. Please read my Bios-Update-Instruction or use the instructions from your mainboard manufacturer.Consumer motherboards hide a lot of options that do not make sense to regular users. Use the flash tool from your mainboard manufacturer to program your Bios-Chip!
#AMERICAN MEGATRENDS BIOS UPDATE ASROCK WINDOWS#
After you have created your logo, save the Bitmap file (BMP) without RLE-Compression.įullscreen-Logo: start CBROM to insert the Bitmap into your Bios-Update file.ĮPA-Logo: start the Windows tool BMPtoEPA, convert the Bitmap into the EPA-format, save it and use CBROM to insert the Bitmap into your Bios-Update file.įinally write the Bios-Update file onto the Bios-Chip.ĬBROM-Version: 2.x für Award v4.51+v4.6x (old) Start PaintShopPro, create a new file and choose one of the above formats with the right resolution and color depth.ĭuring your first tries: use black as background and white as foreground color. The different formats for Fullscreen and EPA-Boot-Logos: Color depthĭont save the Windows/OS2 BITMAP in RLE-compressed format! If the Boot screen does not show the logo in a correct way, you can try other sizes. In this example i use the graphics program PaintShopPro from Corel, but you can use your favorite program as well. If you get an error message like "not enough space!", you have to edit your Bitmap a second time with a graphics program either to reduce the Bitmap size, or to use less colors as a result to get a better data compression.Ī collection of various EPA-Logos: bios-epa-logos.htm.Įdit Boot-Logo (EPA-Format) with BMPtoEPA "cbrom215.exe n24ld505.bin /logo filename.bmp" "cbrom215.exe n24ld505.bin /epa filename.bmp" All we have to do is to create ( see below) a Bitmap file in a specified size and format. Because CBROM is able to translate normal BMPs into the special AWBM format. Now we use CBROM to insert our self created (normal) Bitmaps. a graphics program like PaintShopPro cannot open these BMPs. The extracted BMP files have a different format as the normal Windows/OS2 BITMAP format! It is a special AWBM format. The picture above shows the small EPA-Logo (EPALogo.bmp) on Pos.10, and the Fullscreen logo (LanParty.bmp) on Pos.11, and also the original and compressed size in kilobytes.Įxtract the small EPA-Logo with "cbrom215.exe n24ld505.bin /epa extract".Įxtract the Fullscreen with "cbrom215.exe n24ld505.bin /logo extract". The input of "cbrom215.exe n24ld505.bin /D" shows: In our example we use the BIOS Update file "N24LD505.BIN" from the DFI mainboard "LanParty NFII Ultra B". To show all parameters, go to the command line (DOS-Prompt) and insert: "cbrom215.exe".įirst of all we need a Bios Update file to edit the current logo, and the parameter /D to show all ROM segments. CBROM works under DOS and the Windows command line.
#AMERICAN MEGATRENDS BIOS UPDATE ASROCK SOFTWARE#
Use this instruction and software at your own risk! A Bios-Update is always dangerous, because a power failure or software error during the flash process could make your Bios unusable, and have the consequence to reprogram the Bios-Chip by an external service like .Įxtract Boot-Logo out of BIOS Update fileĬBROM, a small software from AWARD (PHOENIX), has functions to read, edit and insert each segments inside a Bios Update file.