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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2010
John A. Landry, Spring, TX (US);
John A. Landry, Spring, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method of performing system maintenance in a computing device. The method includes launching a maintenance application in a pre-operating system environment of a computing device (). The maintenance application performs at least one hardware maintenance operation on the hardware of the computing device during device down time. The method also includes generating a log file based on the results of the at least one hardware maintenance operation (). The method also includes terminating the maintenance application, launching the operating system of the computing device (), and accessing the log file ().