Step 7 - I opened the bmp in EPACoder and tried to convert it to EPA Version 1 and received the usual error message about there being more that one color in a particular block ( it's more than likely that more one block is involved ) .

Step 8 - In order to find where the problem is I now opened the bmp in Bios Logo and convert it to epa format then recolor the letters but in this case it's not obvious at first where the colors over lap so I have to save the epa file this time to test.epa since the shareware version won't allow me to save with the same file name again ( I should break down and buy it ! ) .

Step 9 - This time I opened test.epa in EPACoder , convert it to bmp and saved it to test.bmp . After opening the test.bmp in Paint the problem now visible ( the letter S has two colors ) . So I copy the text and then paste it a little to the right , again remove the green shareware text from the right corner and change the letter S to all blue then save the bmp .

Step 10 - I then opened the test.bmp in EPACoder and converted it to EPA version 1 without any errors . If your not so lucky just edit the bmp a little more until your successful .

Step 11 - I now added a image to the bmp in this case the buzz saw character from my flashbak logo ( you can draw your own or use any image as long as is only 16 colors and small enough but be aware that some will be very hard if not impossible to get to work ) . After copying the image I pasted it into the test.bmp and saved . I then repeated steps 7 thru 10 until I didn't receive any errors when converting it to EPA Version 1 and saved the bmp to Buckshot.bmp and the epa to Buckshot.epa from EPACoder .

Step 12 - Now we're ready to incorporate the new logo into our bios . I first copy the bios bin file ( in this case VP6_WK.bin ) , Buckshot.epa and the cbrom.exe into a working directory ( I use Bios ) . Then I opened a Command Prompt window and typed in the following command " cbrom VP6_WK.bin /epa Buckshot.epa " without the quotation marks , then enter and the new logo is inserted into the bios . There are three temporary files created by this process and they can be safely deleted . All that's left to do now is flash your bios and enjoy the new logo . Remember to save the epa and bmp files along with the cbrom.exe in case you choose to update your bios when a newer version is released . Also note that the only thing changed from the original bios is the logo and the file size remains the same .

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