Patent ID: 7380148

Claim:
An information handling system having improved multimedia performance, the information handling system comprising: plural processing components operable to process information for presentation to a user; an operating system operable to coordinate operation of the processing components in a normal mode or a multimedia mode; a multimedia application operable to interface with predetermined of the processing components through the operating system to present multimedia information; a multimedia mode selector interfaced with one or more of the processing components and operable to accept a user selection of a multimedia mode of operation; a multimedia module interfaced with the multimedia mode selector and the operating system, the multimedia module operable to boot the processing components and operating system to the multimedia mode upon selection through the multimedia mode selector, the multimedia mode having substantially only the predetermined of the processing components configured to run in support of the multimedia application; and a power switch interfaced with the operating system and operable to accept a user selection of a normal mode of operation, the normal mode having the operating system boot substantially all of the processing components after a POST; wherein the multimedia module disables the POST for boots to the multimedia mode.