Information processing apparatus and control method

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a controller that outputs, to the processor, notification information according to input information, wherein
• the processor:
• executes system processing based on an operating system (OS), and
• executes operation of thermal control processing by control of a Basic Input Output System (BIOS) using the notification information output from the controller, wherein
• the controller:
• accepts, as the input information, an operation signal indicative of an operated key according to a user's operation on a keyboard,
• determines whether the operated key is of a specific combination of keys based on the accepted operation signal, and
• upon making a determination that the operated key is of the specific combination of keys, outputs, to the processor, a result of the determination as the notification information, and
• without another key being pressed after the result of the determination is output from the controller, the processor executes the thermal control processing based on the result of the determination.