Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Digital data processing system initialization or configuration – Loading initialization program
Patent
1997-09-30
2000-09-19
Palys, Joseph E.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Digital data processing system initialization or configuration
Loading initialization program
714 15, G06F 9445
Patent
active
061227331
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus includes a storage medium having stored therein a segmented basic input/output system (BIOS) divided among a plurality of segments within the storage medium, and a processor operative to execute the segmented BIOS. In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, the BIOS includes a recovery function that is mode dependent in that while the apparatus is in an update mode the recovery function executes a full reflash of all relevant segments of the segmented BIOS, whereas while the apparatus is in a normal mode the recovery function executes a partial reflash of only identified corrupted BIOS segments.
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Babcock Sean R.
Christeson Orville H.
Hall Jerald Nevin
Kinion Mike
LeClerg Frank E.
Hossain Abu
Intel Corporation
Palys Joseph E.
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