Patent Application
20080028117
A more complete understanding of the present disclosure thereof may be acquired by referring to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein:
While the present disclosure is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific example embodiments thereof have been shown in the drawings and are herein described in detail. It should be understood, however, that the description herein of specific example embodiments is not intended to limit the disclosure to the particular forms disclosed herein, but on the contrary, this disclosure is to cover all modifications and equivalents as defined by the appended claims.
For purposes of this disclosure, an information handling system may include any instrumentality or aggregate of instrumentalities operable to compute, classify, process, transmit, receive, retrieve, originate, switch, store, display, manifest, detect, record, reproduce, handle, or utilize any form of information, intelligence, or data for business, scientific, control, or other purposes. For example, an information handling system may be a personal computer, a network storage device, or any other suitable device and may vary in size, shape, performance, functionality, and price. The information handling system may include random access memory (RAM), one or more processing resources such as a central processing unit (CPU), hardware or software control logic, read only memory (ROM), and/or other types of nonvolatile memory. Additional components of the information handling system may include one or more disk drives, one or more network ports for communicating with external devices as well as various input and output (I/O) devices, such as a keyboard, a mouse, and a video display. The information handling system may also include one or more buses operable to transmit communications between the various hardware components.
Referring now to the drawings, the details of specific example embodiments are schematically illustrated. Like elements in the drawings will be represented by like numbers, and similar elements will be represented by like numbers with a different lower case letter suffix.
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According to the teaching of this disclosure, for example, memory slots 104b and 104d may be filled with memory modules (not shown) and may result in the associated LEDs 106b and 106d being red. Memory slots 104c may be empty and the associated LED 104c may be amber, indicating non-optimal memory slots because the associated CPU 102c is lower than the other CPUs 102 in the information handling system 100. Memory slots 104a may be empty and the associated LED 104a may be green, indicating optimal memory slots for adding hot-add memory modules (not shown) to the information handling system. A user or technician/administrator now may easily spot which ones of the memory slots 104 are best to insert the memory modules for optimal performance of the information handling system 100.
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However, If the Hot-add memory was added to a non-optimal memory slot 104, then in step 310 a Chassis System Event Log (SEL) may indicate to the user or administrator that a non-optimal Hot-add was attempted. In step 312, an error message indicating that a Hot-add was attempted to a non-optimal memory slot 104, e.g., to a front panel LCD and/or a front panel indicator may flash a selected color, e.g., amber. These alarms and messages may alert the user or administrator of the incorrect use of a non-optimal memory slot(s) 104 so that the error may be corrected and the Hot-add memory module(s) may be added to an optimal memory slot(s) 104. Then in step 308, the BIOS may end the Hot-add SMI handler.
While embodiments of this disclosure have been depicted, described, and are defined by reference to example embodiments of the disclosure, such references do not imply a limitation on the disclosure, and no such limitation is to be inferred. The subject matter disclosed is capable of considerable modification, alteration, and equivalents in form and function, as will occur to those ordinarily skilled in the pertinent art and having the benefit of this disclosure. The depicted and described embodiments of this disclosure are examples only, and are not exhaustive of the scope of the disclosure.
