Patent ID: 7844844

Claim:
An information handling system comprising: a chassis; processing components disposed in the chassis and operable to process information; a display integrated with the chassis and operable to present information; a battery integrated with the chassis and operable to provide power to the processing components and the display; a power controller integrated with the chassis, the power controller interfaced with the battery and an external power source, the power controller operable to provide power to the processing components and to charge the battery with power from the external power source; and a power diagnostics module operable to run on a processing component, the power diagnostics module interfaced with the battery and the power controller, the power diagnostics module further operable to monitor the battery charge to initiate a power down state if a predetermined minimum charge is detected, the predetermined minimum charge sufficient to restart one or more of the processing components from the power down state and run the power diagnostics module on the restarted processing component.