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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rachael Berman, Maynard, MA (US);
Stephen F Shirron, Acton, MA (US);
Fidelma Hayes, Marlborough, MA (US);
Kevin Peterson, Sudbury, MA (US);
Marco Ciaffi, Hudson, MA (US);
Assignee:
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39575006 ; 395651 ; 395653 ; 39518312 ;
Abstract
An apparatus is described to provide a fault tolerant power-on of a computer system, using a BIOS memory containing a primary power-on system level configuration program for a computer system and a separate memory which contains a subset of the primary power-on system level configuration program. The subset program is accessed automatically, without human intervention, responding to a checksum detector of the BIOS memory data.