Device self-mitigation of electrical transients

A method, comprising:

• detecting a startup process on a device;
• delaying a portion of the startup process from handing over control to a startup firmware by processing delaying instructions and accounting for any electrical transient present on the device;
• and
• permitting the startup process to execute the delayed portion of the startup process, wherein the startup process passes control to the startup firmware after the processing of the delaying instructions is complete, wherein permitting further includes identifying the startup firmware as a bootloader firmware for a bootloader of the device that loads a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) for execution on the device.

A method, comprising:

• detecting a startup process on a device;
• delaying a portion of the startup process from handing over control to a startup firmware by processing delaying instructions and accounting for any electrical transient present on the device;
• and
• permitting the startup process to execute the delayed portion of the startup process, wherein the startup process passes control to the startup firmware after the processing of the delaying instructions is complete, wherein permitting further includes identifying the startup firmware as a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware for a BIOS of the device that loads an operating system for execution on the device.

A method, comprising:

• identifying initiation of a boot of a device;
• intentionally delaying a bootloader from execution for a delay time and accounting for any electrical transients that are present during the boot on the device;
• processing a first portion of the bootloader as a loop that continuously calculates a checksum value on a second portion of the bootloader after the delay time expires;
• determining that the calculated checksum value equals an expected checksum value for the second portion of the bootloader;
• processing the second portion of the bootloader to load a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) responsive to determining that the calculated checksum value equals the expected checksum value for the second portion of the bootloader;
• and
• processing the BIOS to load an operating system on the device.