Description:  FLASHI.EXE

The Image Flash utility is used to replace or save the initial BIOS splash screen image. This is the image that appears before the operating system loads. The utility runs only in plain DOS, not a Windows DOS box. 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 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 become 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.  

The new image for loading must meet the following requirements:
•	File Format
	-	Windows Bitmap with 4-bit RLE encoding
		-	File Size: 64kB max.
		-	Last 2 bytes of image must terminate with the proper RLE encoding, 00 01
	-	Windows Bitmap with no compression (can be made with Paint).
•	Size
	-	Exactly 424(w) x 320(h) pixels
•	Colors
	-	16 colors 


Usage to Flash Image: 

Normal: Flashi.exe

Command Line Mode: Flashi.exe [Image_File] [Foreground_Color] [Background_Color]

The foreground and background colors can be any one of the 16 palettes that are defined in the image file.  The input is taken as hexidecimal values and must fall in the range of 0x0-0xF.

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