Patent ID: 8516311

Claim:
A computing device, comprising: a storage system; at least one processor; a first motherboard; a first peripheral component interconnect express (PCI-E) switch that is located on the first motherboard, the first PCI-E switch electronically connecting to a second PCI-E switch of a second motherboard; and one or more programs stored in the storage system and executable by the at least one processor, the one or more programs comprising: a creation module operable to create a first data packet using a plurality of formatted data; a sending module operable to send the first data packet from the first PCI-E switch to the second PCI-E switch; a receiving module operable to receive a second data packet sent back by the second PCI-E switch; a comparison module operable to compare the first data packet with the second data packet to generate a test result of the second PCI-E switch; a display module operable to display the test result of the second PCI-E switch on a monitor of the computing device.