Patent ID: 8922585

Claim:
A system, comprising: a display device; a computing system with a processor that provides images to the display device; a provider with a processor; and a display controller operably connected to the provider and including: a data store to store an overlay control data; a port to communicate with the provider that provides the overlay control data to the display controller; and a logic to provide an overlay to the display device, the overlay being an image that is displayed on the display device, the logic being controlled, at least in part, by the provider of the overlay control data, the overlay being described by the overlay control data, the overlay being rendered by the provider of the overlay control data, wherein the logic provides the overlay to the display device in response to an error state of at least one component of the computing system, wherein the error state prohibits information from the computing system to be displayed on the display device, and wherein the display controller and the provider are not initialized by the computing system.