Patent ID: 7124412

Claim:
A method comprising: a processor executing a BIOS routine by receiving information from at least a first computing system unit, the information comprising at least one of error information, status information, and configuration information; the processor executing the BIOS routine by storing the received information in a memory; for a second computing system unit, the processor executing the BIOS routine by receiving an initial request from the second computing system unit for the received information; the processor executing the BIOS routine by providing to the second computing system unit in response to the received request at least one of the received information stored in the memory before the receipt of the initial request if any is stored; and the processor executing the BIOS routine by providing to the second computing system unit at least one of the received information received subsequent to the initial request; wherein the provided received information stored before the receipt of the request includes one of all the received information and a categorized subset of all the received information.