Rebooting card and its method for determining a timing of restarting a reset mechanism

摘要

A rebooting card and its method for determining a timing of restarting a reset mechanism are proposed. The rebooting card is plugged into a socket of a motherboard of a computer system and includes a detection unit, a counter and a reset unit. It functions together with the basic input/output system (BIOS) of the motherboard. When the computer system activates the BIOS and finishes the booting procedure, it sends a finish code to the rebooting card for notification. When the detection unit detects and receives the finish code, it drives the counter to count to a present value so as to drive the reset unit to restart the reset mechanism of the motherboard for testing. Thus, in case that the computer system doesn't finish its booting procedure, the detection unit of the rebooting card will not receive the finish code so that the rebooting card won't restart the reset mechanism.