T43 BIOS Bootsplash Screen

[Jason986]

Hello,

I am trying to change the bootsplash screen on my T43 machine by using the instructions at ThinkWiki.

My problem is that I cannot figure out how to take an image and convert it to a "16-Color 640 x 480 4-Bit BMP file" in Photoshop 6.0. The lowest I can go is 8-Bit. I was wondering if either someone could walk me through the process or if someone could do the conversion for me if I provided them with the image file.

Thanks.

[Aroc]

Maybe Photoshop is too much of a sledgehammer? The MSPaint.exe tool in XP has the option to save BMPs as 4-bit color (16 colors). Perhaps use that tool instead?

[Jason986]

Doh!

Now why didn't I think of that? I didn't think Paint would work, but low and behold you were right. Now I have the custom image I wanted as my BIOS splash screen.

Thanks.

[det922]

which image did you make?

[marcos]

Or, as thinkwiki suggests, use Gimp, the free powerful graphic editor.