Patent ID: 7987438

Claim:
A method comprising: generating, by a design tool, a design structure for use in at least one of designing, manufacturing, and testing a design; and storing, by the design tool, the design structure in a machine readable storage medium, the design structure comprising: an apparatus for initializing expansion adapters installed in a computer system having similar expansion adapters, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of: detecting an expansion adapter installed in the computer system having a plurality of expansion adapters, the detected expansion adapter having an option ROM containing initialization code; identifying similar expansion adapters installed in the computer system that correspond to the detected expansion adapter, each of the identified similar expansion adapters having an option ROM containing initialization code; disabling the option ROM of each of the identified similar expansion adapters; and initializing the plurality of expansion adapters installed in the computer system without executing the initialization code of the identified similar expansion adapters.