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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1997
Orville H Christeson, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Frank L Wildgrube, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Frank E LeClerg, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Jerald Nevin Hall, Scappoose, OR (US);
Mike Kinion, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sean R Babcock, Portland, OR (US);
John Yuratovac, Rancho Cucamonga, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a storage medium having stored therein a segmented basic input/output system (BIOS) divided among a plurality of segments within the storage medium, and a processor operative to execute the segmented BIOS. In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, the BIOS includes a recovery function that is mode dependent in that while the apparatus is in an update mode the recovery function executes a full reflash of all relevant segments of the segmented BIOS, whereas while the apparatus is in a normal mode the recovery function executes a partial reflash of only identified corrupted BIOS segments.