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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1999
Francis Martin Orr, Greenock, GB;
Roger Timothy Wood, Largs, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A data processing system includes a bus network interconnecting a data processor and one or more adapter cards, and providing for the data processor to bypass initialization of the adapter cards in response to a user indication entered prior to the initialization. This allows the system to be booted even in the event of an adapter card failure which causes the system to hang during initialization. The data processing system also enters a setup routine allowing the user to disable one or more of the adapter cards. The user indication may be entered at a remote computer where the data processing system is connected as a client computer to a server computer system by a network.
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