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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2021
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Craig L. Chaiken, Pflugerville, TX (US);

Siva Subramaniam Rajan, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/22 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/36 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2284 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 11/079 (2013.01); G06F 11/0793 (2013.01); G06F 11/1417 (2013.01); G06F 13/36 (2013.01); G06F 2201/805 (2013.01);
Abstract

An information handling system may include a processor and a basic input/output system (BIOS) comprising a program of instructions executable on the processor, the basic input/output system configured to, upon occurrence of a predetermined number of failures to complete a power-on/self-test (POST) of the information handling system: for each particular critical boot variable of the BIOS stored in a memory associated with the BIOS, read a backup variable for the particular critical boot variable, if available, and write a value of the backup variable as the critical boot variable; and attempt to reboot the information handling system with values of the backup variables used for the critical boot variables.


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