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US 8,286,093 B2Granted
Replacement motherboard configuration
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsRicardo L. Martinez, Aaron Taylor, Richard Brian Wallace, Joshua N. Alperin, Charles Marion Ueltschey, III
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Abstract
In a system to configure a replacement motherboard, one or more subsystems are provided to determine whether the replacement motherboard is in a manufacturing mode, determine whether firmware for the replacement motherboard is unlocked, and receive an input from a user to configure the replacement motherboard when the replacement motherboard is determined to be in the manufacturing mode and the firmware is unlocked.
Claims21
A configuration system to configure a replacement motherboard, the system comprising one or more subsystems to:
- detect a power-on of an information handling system (IHS) that includes a replacement motherboard;
- determine, in response to detecting the power-on of the IHS, that an initial boot of the replacement motherboard is occurring in response to detecting that the replacement motherboard is in a manufacturing mode and that firmware for the replacement motherboard is unlocked;
- automatically provide, in response to determining that the initial boot of the replacement motherboard is occurring, a menu including a plurality of available configurations that are retrieved from the replacement motherboard and an instruction to retrieve an original motherboard configuration;
- receive a selection of the original motherboard configuration from the plurality of available configurations for the replacement motherboard;
- and configure the replacement motherboard using the original motherboard configuration;
- wherein the one or more subsystems is executed on a processor in the IHS.
3 more elements
An information handling system (IHS) comprising:
- a processor;
- a replacement motherboard;
- and
- a configuration system coupled to the processor and the replacement motherboard, wherein the configuration system is operable to:
- detect a power-on of the IHS;
- determine, in response to detecting the power-on of the IHS, that an initial boot of the replacement motherboard is occurring in response to detecting that the replacement motherboard is in a manufacturing mode and that firmware for the replacement motherboard is unlocked;
- automatically provide, in response to determining that the initial boot of the replacement motherboard is occurring, a menu including a plurality of available configurations that are retrieved from the replacement motherboard and an instruction to retrieve an original motherboard configuration;
- receive a selection of the original motherboard configuration from the plurality of available configurations for the replacement motherboard;
- and
- configure the replacement motherboard using the original motherboard configuration.
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A method to configure a replacement motherboard, the method comprising:
- detecting a power-on of an information handling system (IHS) that includes a replacement motherboard;
- determining, in response to detecting the power-on of the IHS, that an initial boot of the replacement motherboard is occurring in response to detecting that the replacement motherboard is in a manufacturing mode and that firmware for the replacement motherboard is unlocked;
- automatically providing, in response to determining that the initial boot of the replacement motherboard is occurring, a menu including a plurality of available configurations that are retrieved from the replacement motherboard and an instruction to retrieve an original motherboard configuration;
- receiving a selection of the original motherboard configuration from the plurality of available configurations for the replacement motherboard;
- and
- configuring the replacement motherboard using the original motherboard configuration.
3 more elements
A method for configuring a replacement motherboard comprising:
- providing an information handling system (IHS) to a user, wherein the IHS includes an original motherboard;
- providing a configuration stock keeping unit (SKU) to the user, wherein the SKU is related to a configuration of the original motherboard;
- providing the user a replacement motherboard for the IHS;
- detecting, by a basic input/output system (BIOS) in the IHS in response to a power-on of the IHS, that the replacement motherboard is installed in the IHS and an initial boot of the replacement motherboard is occurring in response to detecting that the replacement motherboard is in a manufacturing mode and that a firmware for the replacement motherboard is unlocked;
- prohibiting booting of the IHS to media other than the BIOS;
- automatically displaying, in response to detecting that the initial boot of the replacement motherboard is occurring, a service menu on the IHS, wherein the service menu displays a plurality of available configuration SKUs that are retrieved from the replacement motherboard and an instruction to retrieve the configuration SKU that is related to the configuration of the original motherboard;
- receiving a selection of the configuration SKU that is related to the configuration of the original motherboard from the plurality of available configuration SKUs for the replacement motherboard;
- and
- configuring the replacement motherboard using the configuration SKU that is related to the configuration of the original motherboard.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.