Method for updating a ROM BIOS
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorYun-Ho Choi
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Abstract
A method for updating a ROM BIOS includes the following steps: a step for reading an image data of a ROM BIOS which is to be updated; a step for reading a ROM BIOS image data from a ROM BIOS; a step for reading a new ROM BIOS image data from an auxiliary memory; a step for reading a new user information; a step for converting the new user information into an image data; a step for updating the new ROM BIOS image data and user information in the ROM BIOS. Since the user updates a ROM BIOS image data for oneself, the user information displayed during a POST operation can be displayed in the user's characteristic message. Therefore, the user can recognize one's computer through unique characteristics that are displayed on a monitor and easily identify one's computer among many different computers.
Claims15
A method for updating a ROM BIOS comprising the steps of:
- reading ROM BIOS image data from a ROM BIOS;
- reading new ROM BIOS image data from an auxiliary memory;
- reading new user information;
- converting said new user information into corresponding image data;
- updating said new ROM BIOS image data and said image data corresponding to said new user information in said ROM BIOS.
A method for updating a ROM BIOS comprising the steps of:
- reading ROM BIOS image data from a ROM BIOS image area of a ROM BIOS which is to be updated, and checking a system ID of the read ROM BIOS image data;
- storing the read ROM BIOS image data in a system memory;
- reading new ROM BIOS image data from an auxiliary memory and loading said new ROM BIOS image data into the system memory;
- utilizing a keyboard input read area of the system memory for reading new user information input by a user via a keyboard;
- converting said new user information into corresponding image data by utilizing a flash ROM update code stored in a flash ROM update code area of said system memory;
- storing said image data corresponding to said new user information into a temporary memory;
- reading said new ROM BIOS image data from said system memory for updating said ROM BIOS image area of said ROM BIOS;
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- reading said image data corresponding to said new user information from said temporary memory for updating a user information area of said ROM BIOS.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.