Patent ID: 7447890

Claim:
A method of playing multimedia data with a computer comprising a BIOS program, a hard disk installed with a first operating system, a RAM, a storage media reading device, and an audiovisual interface, the method comprising steps of: (a) energizing the computer where the storage media reading device is set as a first priority activation device in the BIOS program; (b) providing a non-fixed data storage media having a second operating system, device drivers and a media playing application program stored thereon; (c) detecting whether the non-fixed data storage media is present in the storage media reading device, upon failing to detect the non-fixed data storage media, then loading and executing the first operating system from the hard drive, or upon detecting the non-fixed data storage media proceeding to step (d); (d) loading the stored second operating system from the non-fixed data storage media into the computer and executing the second operating system; (e) detecting a multimedia player device being connected to the audiovisual interface of the computer, and responsive to the detection of the multimedia player device loading and then executing a corresponding device driver from the non-fixed data storage media for activating the multimedia player device; (f) responsive to execution of the corresponding device driver then executing the stored media playing application program from the non-fixed data storage media; and (g) playing the multimedia data through the audiovisual interface of the computer.