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AssigneeInventec Corporation
InventorsYing-Chih Lu, Chun-Lung Wu, Chun-Yi Lee, Lung-Hung Yu, Chi-Tsung Chang, Meng-Hua Cheng
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A method for updating System Management Basic Input Output System (SMBIOS) data in BIOS of a computer system is provided so as to allow a user to store user-defined information in a storage unit of a computer system, wherein the storage unit has a default SMBIOS data. This method establishes an accessing block in the BIOS that enable the user to access user data, determines whether the accessing block contains the user data after activating the BIOS. If there is user data in the accessing block, the user data is stored in the storage unit and the default SMBIOS data is removed; otherwise, the default SMBIOS data is retained, thereby achieving the advantage of easy update.
A method for updating System Management Basic Input Output System (SMBIOS) data in a Basic Input Output System (BIOS), a storage unit of the computer system being used to store the SMBIOS data, wherein a default SMBIOS data is stored in default but a user is allowed to store a user data in the storage unit as needed, and the SMBIOS data being used in a Power-On Self-Test (POST) procedure or an operating system of the computer system, the method comprising:
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