Patent ID: 8272000

Claim:
An improved computing device having a hardware and software configuration comprising: a logical layer comprising a software operating system (OS); means for relocating all hardware device drivers for hardware devices from an OS image in the logical layer to an Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM); a physical layer comprising said hardware devices, a server platform, a basic input/output system (BIOS), the EEPROM, and the hardware device drivers, said hardware device drivers embedded in the EEPROM, the BIOS being contained in a chipset to which the EEPROM is directly connected, the BIOS and the EEPROM being external to each other, the hardware device drivers facilitating communication between the OS in the logical layer of the computing device and said hardware devices; and means for loading the hardware device drivers from the EEPROM to the BIOS to embed the hardware device drivers in the BIOS.