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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1998
Robert Gentile, Beaverton, OR (US);
Eric D Anderson, Village of North Hudson, WI (US);
Micron Electronics, Inc., Nampa, ID (US);
Abstract
A system for monitoring a computer system with an external status monitor during the power-on self test (POST) of the computer system. The computer system has tasks to be performed during the POST process. Each task has a token corresponding to an original message or a subsequently added message. Each subsequently added message is stored in the computer system, and each original message is stored in the external status monitor. Under the control of the computer system, the system identifies a task for the computer system to perform. The system then retrieves the token for the identified task and determines whether the retrieved token corresponds to an original message or a subsequently added message. If the retrieved token corresponds to an original message, the system sends only the retrieved token to the external status monitor. If not, the system retrieves the stored message for the retrieved token, notifies the external status monitor that a message will be sent, and sends a token and the retrieved message to the external status monitor. Under the control of the external status monitor, the system receives the token sent from the computer system. When the received token corresponds to an original message, the system retrieves the corresponding message for the received token and displays the retrieved message. When the external status monitor is notified that a new message is being sent, the system receives the message sent from the computer system and displays the received message.