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Process and tool for analyzing and locating hardware failures in a computer

  • US 6,704,888 B1
  • Filed: 02/08/2000
  • Issued: 03/09/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/08/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A process for analyzing and locating hardware failures in a computing machine storing information on operational errors generated by various sensible hardware components of the computing machine, characterized in that it comprises creating a man/machine interface, using the man/machine interface to describe components and rules for interpreting errors in a structural language, error information generated in accordance with the value of one or more status registers of the machine, using the component descriptions and rules for interpreting parameters in correlation with the error information to detect a malfunctioning component, determining the parameters from machine status registers and contents of the status registers of the machine,describing the status registers of the machine, describing the content of said status registers, and describing the set of interpreting rules for extracting the location of the failure from the contents of the registers in order to determine the parameters required for the description of components, the description of the content of the status registers, and for the description of the rules.

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