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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Isaac Qin Wang, Austin, TX (US);
Adolfo Sandor Montero, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may: provide a first chip select signal to a chip of an information handling system (IHS), which stores at least a portion of IHS firmware, while at least one processor of the IHS is executing processor instructions; determine that a second chip select signal is provided to the chip; provide, to an embedded controller of the IHS, a signal that indicates that the second chip select signal has been provided to the chip; receive a signal to boot the IHS; determine if the embedded controller has received the signal that indicates that the second chip select signal has been provided to the chip; if so, prevent the IHS from booting; and if not, permit the IHS to boot utilizing the at least the portion of the IHS firmware stored by the chip.