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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2006
Mark A. Brandyberry, Austin, TX (US);
Shiva R. Dasari, Austin, TX (US);
Daniel E. Hurlimann, Austin, TX (US);
Bruce J. Wilkie, Georgetown, TX (US);
Lee H. Wilson, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher L. Wood, Austin, TX (US);
Mark A. Brandyberry, Austin, TX (US);
Shiva R. Dasari, Austin, TX (US);
Daniel E. Hurlimann, Austin, TX (US);
Bruce J. Wilkie, Georgetown, TX (US);
Lee H. Wilson, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher L. Wood, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for handling fatal computer hardware errors on a computer that include halting data processing operations of the computer upon occurrence of a fatal hardware error; signaling by a source chip of a chipset to the programmable logic device the occurrence of a fatal hardware error; signaling by the programmable logic device to an embedded system microcontroller the occurrence of a fatal hardware error; reading by the embedded system microcontroller through at least one sideband bus from registers in chips of the chipset information regarding the cause of the fatal hardware error; and storing by the embedded system microcontroller the information in non-volatile random access memory of the embedded system microcontroller.