Patent ID: 8176308

Claim:
A method for booting a computer system under a low temperature state, the computer system comprising at least one system component having a loading component, the method comprising: detecting whether a power button of the computer system has been pressed according to a trigger signal; obtaining a hard disk temperature via a temperature sensor of a hard disk of the computer system; determining whether the hard disk temperature is less than a first predetermined temperature; when the hard disk temperature is less than the first predetermined temperature, performing the steps of: activating a heater of the hard disk to heat the hard disk; and setting a low temperature event; and activating the computer system when the hard disk temperature has reached or is greater than a second predetermined temperature; upon activation of the computer system and before activation of the loading component of the system component, reading the low temperature event; and decreasing output loading of the loading component and then activating the system component of the computer system with a lowered loading state when the low temperature event has been set.