Patent ID: 8745423

Claim:
An information handling system comprising: a module bay configured to receive a module, and to connect the module to the information handling system; a voltage control switch in communication with the module bay, the voltage control switch configured to provide power to the module bay; and a controller in communication with the module bay and with the voltage control switch, the controller configured to detect a connection of the module to the module bay, to determine whether the module was previously connected to the module bay, to retrieve information stored about the module in response to the module being previously connected, the information including a type of module for the module, to send a power control override signal to the voltage control switch in response to the type of module being a first type, and to continue to provide power to the module bay and the module after a power down signal for the module bay is received in response to the power override signal being received at the voltage control switch, otherwise to power down the module bay and the module after the power down signal is received in response to the type of module being a second type.