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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2010
Gregory P Ziarnik, Houston, TX (US);
Mark D. Tupa, Cypress, TX (US);
Gregory P Ziarnik, Houston, TX (US);
Mark D. Tupa, Cypress, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An example method comprises activating a computer power-on button and releasing the power-on button when the computer begins to energize; reactivating the computer power-on button a second time within a predetermined time period from the first activating step; and sensing the reactivating step with the predetermined time period and initiating a command to enter a BIOS pre-boot routine instead of booting to the computer operating system (OS). The command to enter the BIOS pre-boot routine is initiated before activation of a computer keyboard.