Method and apparatus for fault tolerant BIOS addressing

作者: Marco Ciaffi , Fidelma Hayes , Kevin Peterson , Rachael Berman , Stephen F. Shirron

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摘要: An apparatus is described to provide a fault tolerant power-on of computer system, using BIOS memory containing primary system level configuration program for and separate which contains subset the program. The accessed automatically, without human intervention, responding checksum detector data.

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