How Do I Update The Me Firmware In Vista, Windows Xp, Or Windows 2000 - HP dc7900 - Convertible Minitower PC Questions And Answers

above cannot be flashed into the ROM part. 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 in the BIOS 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 be 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.
Usage to Flash Image:
Normal: Flashi.exe
Command Line Mode: Flashi.exe [Image_File] [Foreground_Color] [Background_Color]
The normal execution method will provide the user with additional interaction so that the
image can be selected from various files and a preview can be seen before the image is
committed to the BIOS.
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
How do I update the ME firmware in Vista, Windows XP, or
Windows 2000?
FWUpdLcl.exe utility in the ME Flash\Local-Win directory is designed to update the ME
firmware within a local Windows environment. For more information and utility options, view
the readme.txt file located in the ME Flash\Local-Win folder. The ME can be updated by
executing the following command "FWUpdLcl.exe <XXX_bbbb.bin> -generic". The ME Flash
folder contains a binary update image for the ME. The binary image file is named
XXX_bbbb.bin where "XXX" is the abbreviated ME firmware version and "bbbb" is the build
version number. For example, 210_1028.bin is the ME update file version 2.1.0 with the
build number of 1028. The update binary image and the Local-Win folder contents can be
copied to any Windows accessible media such as a CD/DVD or USB flash media device,
including HP Drive Key and M-Systems DiskOnKey.
The following image shows the successful completion of the ME FW update process in a
Windows XP environment. The update process will stay at the "Performing Update..." step
for most of the time.
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