Dell Products Inc.

Dell USA L P

Jerry M Jones

Jon Robert Hass

Weijia Zhang

Vance Edward Corn

William C Edwards

Sumeet Kukreja

Mark A Young

An information handling system includes a processor and a management controller separate from the processor. The management controller is operable to boot the information handling system to a system service management module, direct the system service management module to execute diagnostics code on the processor and to store a result from the execution of the diagnostics code in a predetermined memory location. The management controller is also operable to retrieve the result from the predetermined memory location.

System and method for secure remote diagnostics

A test apparatus and method for testing a port of a computer system. The port has a plurality of output lines and a single input line. The apparatus includes: (1) a receiver circuit for receiving a datum transmitted in parallel from the computer system via the plurality of output lines, (2) a storage circuit, coupled to the receiver circuit, for temporarily storing the datum from the output lines and (3) a transmitter circuit, coupled to the storage circuit, for serially transmitting the datum via the input line to the computer system. The computer system compares the datum transmitted from the computer system to the datum received by the computer system to verify a proper functioning of the output lines and input line.

Test apparatus and method for a computer parallel port

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Jerry M Jones