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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Chung-Chih Tung, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Mitac International Corp., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/24 ;
Abstract
A novel boot method for a system, whose system BIOS has been disabled by erroneous microcode input as the result of inadvertent miscoding or malicious intent. The keyboard BIOS of the system is utilized in the present invention. If the CPU of the computer crashes during a microcode update, the system notes the error (setting a number of flags) and restarts the computer. The restarted system will not perform the microcode update, but goes straight to the normal BIOS activation, avoiding the crash problem. To fix the problem, users need only request the correct microcode from CPU retailers to amend the errors in the BIOS.