Patent ID: 6467038
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computer system, comprising:a CPU; a bus bridge device coupled to said CPU; a display coupled to said bus bridge device; a non-volatile memory coupled to said bus bridge device, said non-volatile memory including at least two sets of alphanumeric character strings, each set in a different language, wherein said non-volatile memory is a ROM; wherein said CPU is programmed to computer a checksum for one of the sets of alphanumeric character strings to be used to determine the validity of the character string; and wherein said ROM is configured as a plurality of sectors and said ROM contains a flashing program that performs a read-modify-write flashing operation by which the entire contents of the sectors containing the language module is read from said ROM and copied to main memory, and modifications are made to the language module in main memory and the contents of the sectors are flashed back into said ROM.