Patent ID: 7356683

Claim:
A system for monitoring BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) messages of remote computers by a local server, the system comprising: a local server for executing a monitoring program to send requests for acquiring BIOS messages, and receive and display the BIOS messages; a plurality of remote computers, each of the remote computers executing a POST (Power On Self Test) program for outputting the BIOS messages, receiving a request for acquiring the BIOS messages from the local server, and transmitting the BIOS messages to the local server, each of the remote computers comprising: a CPU (Central Processing Unit) for processing the POST program and outputting the BIOS messages; a remote control card; and a PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus for connecting the CPU with the remote control card; wherein the remote control card comprises an I/O80 port message capturing module for detecting and capturing the BIOS messages from the PCI bus, and recording the BIOS messages into a queue; and a network for connecting the local server with the remote computers.