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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2019
Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Wuhan) Co., Ltd., Wuhan, CN;
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., New Taipei, TW;
Ching-Jou Chen, New Taipei, TW;
Tzu-Wei Lai, New Taipei, TW;
HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (WuHan) CO., LTD., Wuhan, CN;
HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
An arrangement to guarantee boot up of a computer includes a control center microchip with BIOS boot block and BIOS program, and a flash memory divided into a first protected block, a main block, and a second protected block. In the computer, an embedded controller (EC) with stored modules is electrically connected to the flash memory and the control center microchip. The modules include a determining module to check that the code of the first protected block is identical with the code of the second protected block and a recovery module able to reinstate correct code from the second protected block into the first protected block if required. A method applied to the disclosed computer startup detection system is also disclosed.