Dell Products Inc.

Matthew G Page

Richard Martin Tonry

Orlando Rigueira

Nathan Vecera

En-Lin Allen Tsuei

Craig Lawrence Chaiken

Michael Wayne Arms

Dustin A Combs

Chun Yi (Jadis) Yang

A method includes invoking, by an embedded controller at an information handling system, a test procedure to evaluate functionality of motherboard resources at the information handling system. A result of the test procedure is displayed at a primary display device using a built in self test function incorporated at the primary display device.

Method and apparatus for identifying and reporting faults at an information handling system

An information handling system includes a processor operable to provide a branch trace message, and an embedded controller coupled to the processor via a primary interface and via a management interface. The embedded controller receives a management transaction from the processor via the primary interface. In response to receiving the management transaction, the embedded controller requests the branch trace message via the management interface and determines if the processor is operating in a system management mode based upon the branch trace message.

System and method for securing embedded controller communications by verifying host system management mode execution

An information handling system includes a processor operable to receive a system management interrupt, and an embedded controller coupled to the processor via a primary interface and via a system management interrupt interface. The embedded controller receives a command to enable address decoding from the processor via the primary interface, sends the system management interrupt via the system management interrupt interface in response to receiving the command, and receives an indication from the processor via the primary interface, the indication including a determination if the processor was operating in a system management mode when the processor sent the command.

System and method for securing embedded controller communications by providing a security handshake

An information handling system (IHS) provides a method for managing power consumption. The method includes detecting a power-on in the IHS, wherein the IHS comprises a first graphics processing unit (GPU) and at least one additional GPU. The method also includes determining if a normal boot is implemented in the IHS and determining if an instant-on boot occurred if the normal boot is implemented. The at least one additional GPU is disabled if an instant-on boot occurred.

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