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Boz:


--- Quote from: krick on August 31, 2006, 12:31:09 am ---Yes, many are limited to a 256 color palette.

What motherboard do you have?

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I think it's an MSI 845PE Max. (I think.)

Organic Jerk:

I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to here...  Are you talking about the Windows logo boot screen with the moving bar?  Or are you talking about the Computer BIOS boot screen that you would typically see 1sec or so from pressing the on button(typically a manufacturer logo)?

Wincustomize's tutorial there is specifically referring to the Windows boot screen (specifically with use of their BootSkin app), NOT the bios one.  The WINDOWS boot screen (If I'm not mistaken) has a pallete limitation of 256 colors, while your bios boot screen will usually have a pallete limitation of 16 colors or less.  It's probably possible that maybe certain motherboards would allow their bios logos to be more, considering I'm speaking from years of "older" comp experience, but I doubt it, since manufacturers wouldn't really want to pay the extra money for more space on a mobo's limited cache JUST for a high quality bitmap image.

Beyond just a pallete limitation, altering your bios boot screen is a dangerous process if your mobo manufacturer didn't already open the door for you with some sort of software...

I have an HP Vectra VL400 and I plan on trying to alter the Bios image as well, but I'm going to have to try and find some sort of resource on how to hack a bios flash update with my own image to do so... very risky...



Then again, if you were just referring to the Windows boot screen.....256...  :-X

krick:


--- Quote from: In2ishun on August 31, 2006, 01:14:26 am ---
--- Quote from: krick on August 31, 2006, 12:31:09 am ---Yes, many are limited to a 256 color palette.

What motherboard do you have?

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I think it's an MSI 845PE Max. (I think.)

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I *think* that one can handle 256 color images.  Have you tried knocking your image down to 256 colors to see if it works?

gamecreature:

I'm reasonably certain that Windows XP MUST use a 640 x 480 4-bit (16 color) boot screen. That's the nature of the beast. They want to make sure that it still looks good even if you boot up in safe mode.

MYX:

yup, you only get a few (16) colors. I do not think that web safe is important here as you are the only viewer. If you work within Photoshop, when you index your colors, you can make sure that the colors are of your own choosing. Any Gradiations will look speckeled or banded between colors as there are not enough colors to make a smooth transition. It is best to make a color pallet of 16 colors and make sure you stick with it. Starting with vectors can help with this so you design with solids.

Here is a link to the BYOAC WIKI about this.

It took me about 3 tries to make it look reasonably ok. I made it upstairs on my graphics computer, put it onto a thumb drive ran down stairs, crawled inside my cab, loaded it, restarted the machine only to find that the colors on the arcade monitor were brighter than my computer monitor. Patience. That it all. Once I am done configuring the cab (which is taking forever) I plan to totally redo my bootskin.

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