Patent ID: 6865669

Claim:
A method for optimizing of memory resources during an initialization routine of a computer system which prepares the computer system for loading of an operating system, comprising: receiving a request from a system BIOS to locate an amount of conventional memory where the amount of conventional memory accommodates at least a decompressed version of data located in an option ROM BIOS; determining availability of the amount of conventional memory requested by the system BIOS; if it is determined that the amount of conventional memory requested by the system BIOS is not available, the method includes, reading a system BIOS data located within the conventional memory where the system BIOS data occupies at least the amount of conventional memory requested by the system BIOS; writing the system BIOS data from the conventional memory to an extended memory; and deleting the system BIOS data located in the conventional memory that has been written into the extended memory.