Patent ID: 7783874

Claim:
A method for initiating a system, used for executing an initiating program of an interface device while executing a Power-On Self Test (POST) of a computer system, the method comprising: moving a specific data from a conventional memory of the computer system to an extended memory, wherein the specific data is the data not used for executing the initiating program, the conventional memory is sub-divided into several blocks, and the conventional memory comprises a memory management table for recording a usage state of each of the blocks and the extended memory; modifying the memory management table so as to label the block of conventional memory originally used for saving the specific data as ‘usable’; loading the initiating program into a usable conventional memory so as to execute the initiating program; and restoring the specific data from the extended memory back to the conventional memory through a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) after completing the execution of the initiating program, and modifying the memory management table so as to label the block of conventional memory for saving the specific data as ‘used’.