CN102541702A - Test method for automatically restarting mainboard and recording debug data and restarting device thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A test method for automatically restarting motherboard and recording debug data and a restart device thereof are provided. The testing method comprises the steps of setting startup and shutdown parameters, starting up at least one mainboard, accumulating the startup times of the mainboard, reading debug data generated when the mainboard is started up, judging whether the mainboard is restarted or not according to the debug data and the startup and shutdown parameters, and generating startup and shutdown testing data according to the debug data and the startup times.

Description

Test method for automatically restarting mainboard and recording debugging data and restarting device thereof

technical field

The present invention relates to a test method and a restart device thereof, in particular to a test method for automatically restarting a motherboard and recording relevant debugging data and a restart device thereof

Background technique

Generally speaking, in order to ensure the operation stability of the restart process of the motherboard, the motherboard often needs to go through thousands of power-on and power-off tests before leaving the factory. The common test method is manual power-on and power-off and recording relevant test data. to carry out, but this method will lead to time-consuming and labor-intensive detection schedule. Therefore, the design of connecting an external reset card to automatically execute the power-on/off test of the mainboard was born accordingly. For example, a reset card disclosed in Taiwan Patent No. I270782 and a method for determining the timing of testing the restart mechanism. The related device design is shown in Figure 1 As shown, it is a schematic functional block diagram of a restart card 10 in the prior art. The restart card 10 includes a detection unit 12 , a counting unit 14 and a reset unit 16 . The detection unit 12 is used to detect the input/output port of the completion code accessed by the basic input output system (Basic Input Output System, BIOS). When the detection unit 12 detects that the completion code is accessed by the input/output port, it represents the computer The system has completed the start-up procedure. At this time, the detection unit 12 sends a first signal to the counting unit 14, drives the counting unit 14 to count the time to the set time value, sends a second signal to the reset unit 16, and drives the reset unit 16 Execute the cold boot restart mechanism, that is, first short-circuit a power button pin of the main board by the reset unit 16 for a few seconds, so that the system chip of the main board cuts off the power supply, and then the reset unit 16 short-circuits the power button pin again. Apply power and execute the BIOS again to start up. On the other hand, if, computer system has not carried out all start-up programs, promptly is dead state, then will not drive the restarting card 10 to test the cold-boot restarting mechanism of mainboard, for the tester to know the start-up failure state, analyze and solve . the

However, as can be seen from the above, in the prior art, even if an external restart card is used to replace the manual power-on/off test process, when the computer crashes, the main board can only be restarted manually. In addition, the debugging data generated when the motherboard is powered on can only be manually recorded for testing and analysis, which will also bring a lot of inconvenience to testers. the

Contents of the invention

Therefore, the present invention provides a test method for automatically restarting the mainboard and recording related debugging data and a related restarting device to solve the above-mentioned problems. the

The present invention provides a test method for automatically restarting a main board and recording relevant debugging data, which includes setting power-on and off parameters; starting at least one main board; accumulating the number of startup times of the main board; generating a debug data; judging whether to restart the motherboard according to the debug data and the power-on/off parameters; and generating power-on/off test data according to the debug data and the startup times. the

The present invention also provides a reset device capable of automatically restarting the mainboard and recording related debugging data, which includes a setting interface for setting on-off parameters corresponding to at least one mainboard; a bus transmission interface for Incoming electricity is connected to an input and output system unit and a power supply pin of the motherboard; and a programmable chip, which is electrically connected to the bus transmission interface and the setting interface, and the programmable chip includes a switch control unit, which Used to restart the main board; a counting unit, which is used to count the number of startups of the main board; a debugging operation unit, which is used to read a debugging generated when the main board executes booting through the bus transmission interface data and judging whether to control the power-on/off control unit to restart the motherboard according to the debug data and the power-on/off parameters; the

Compared with the prior art, the present invention uses a programmable chip to read the debugging data generated when the mainboard is turned on and compares the power-on and off time, as a judgment basis for restarting the mainboard and to generate corresponding power-on and power-off test data Therefore, no matter whether the main board completes the boot process or is in a dead state, the restart device provided by the present invention can automatically restart the main board. In this way, it can not only greatly reduce the power-on/off stability detection time of the main board, but also help users to directly and clearly know the statistical data of the main board after repeated power-on and power-off without manual recording. And according to the debug code or crash screen generated when the system crashes, corresponding crash problems can be eliminated. the

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a restart card in the prior art. the

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a reset device electrically connected to a motherboard according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. the

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of the restarting device shown in FIG. 2 . the

Fig. 4 is a flow chart of a method for automatically restarting a mainboard and recording relevant debugging data using the restarting device shown in Fig. 2 in a preferred embodiment of the present invention. the

Description of reference symbols

10 restart card 12 detection unit

14 counting unit 16 reset unit

100 restart device 102 motherboard

104 setting interface 106 bus transmission interface

108 image capture interfaces 110 programmable chips

112 display device 114 input and output system unit

116 power pins 118 video output interface

120 switch machine control unit 122 counting unit

124 debugging operation unit 126 recording unit

128 storage interfaces 130 switching interfaces

Steps 400, 402, 404, 406, 408, 410, 412, 414, 416

Detailed ways

Please refer to FIG. 2 , which is a schematic diagram of a reset device 100 electrically connected to a motherboard 102 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The restart device 100 includes a setting interface 104 , a bus transmission interface 106 , an image capture interface 108 , a programmable chip 110 , and a display device 112 . The setting interface 104 is electrically connected to the programmable chip 110 and is used to set the power-on/off parameters of the corresponding motherboard 102, such as the preset value of the power-on/off time of the motherboard 102, the number of times of power-on/off tests, etc., wherein in this embodiment, The setting interface 104 is preferably a combination of common mechanical setting buttons, such as Start, +, -, Stop, etc., for the user to press for setting. The bus transmission interface 106 is preferably a general purpose input/output (General Purpose Input/Output, GPIO) transmission interface, which is used to electrically connect an input and output system unit 114 and a power supply pin 116 of the motherboard 102, wherein the bus transmission interface The data transmission between 106 and the I/O system unit 114 can be installed on a data transmission slot (such as a peripheral component interconnect bus slot (PCI) slot) on the motherboard 102 by connecting with a cable or inserting a golden finger. Slot, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCI-E) slot, Low Pin Count Architecture (LPC) bus). The image capture interface 108 is electrically connected to the programmable chip 110 and is used to electrically connect to an image output interface 118 of the mainboard 102, so as to capture the crash picture corresponding to the mainboard 102, which is preferably a video graphics array (Video Graphics Array, VGA) connector. The display device 112 is electrically connected to the programmable chip 110 and is used to display the debug code generated when the input and output system unit 114 of the motherboard 102 read by the programmable chip 110 executes the Power On Self Test (POST). data, so that the user can clearly know the booting and debugging process of the motherboard 102, wherein the I/O system unit 114 can utilize a basic input and output system or a unified extensible firmware interface (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, UEFI) to Perform the POST. the

The design of the programmable chip 110 is described here, please refer to FIG. 3 , which is a functional block diagram of the reset device 100 shown in FIG. 2 . The programmable chip 110 is preferably a Field Programmable Gate Array (Field Programmable Gate Array, FPGA) chip, which is electrically connected to the setting interface 104, the bus transmission interface 106, the image capture interface 108, and the display device 112 , and includes a power-on/off control unit 120 , a counting unit 122 , a debugging unit 124 and a recording unit 126 . The power-on control unit 120 is used to restart the motherboard 102 . The counting unit 122 is used for counting the startup times of the motherboard 102 . The debugging calculation unit 124 is used to read the debugging data generated when the motherboard 102 is powered on via the bus transmission interface 106 and judge whether to control the power-on/off control unit 120 to restart the motherboard 102 according to the debugging data and the startup parameters. The recording unit 126 is used to generate a power-on/off test data according to the debugging data and the startup times, so as to be used for subsequent detection and analysis by the user. the

It is worth mentioning that the restart device 100 also includes a storage interface 128, which is electrically connected to the programmable chip 110 and is preferably a memory card slot for transmitting the power-on/off test data to a storage medium, such as a safe Digital (Secure Digital, SD) memory card, etc. In addition, the restart device 100 provided by the present invention can also be applied to the power-on/off test of multiple motherboards. In this application, the restart device 100 can further include a switching interface 130, which is electrically connected to the programmable chip 110 may preferably be a group of operation interfaces including 18 dip switches, so as to achieve the purpose of performing the restart test of the programmable chip 110 on different motherboards in a simultaneous multiplex manner. The process steps for automatically restarting a single mainboard 102 and recording related debugging data by the restarting device 100 will be described in detail below. As for testing the switching on and off of multiple mainboards, it can be deduced according to the following description, so it will not be repeated here. repeat. the

Please refer to FIG. 2 , FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 . FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a method for automatically rebooting the mainboard 102 and recording related debugging data by using the rebooting device 100 shown in FIG. 2 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. If you want to use the restart device 100 to perform the power-on/off test of the mainboard 102, you first need to use the setting interface 128 to set the power-on/off parameters (step 400), which is to carry out the preset value of the power-on time of the corresponding mainboard 102 and Shutdown time preset value setting. Then, the user can use the switch control unit 120 to start the motherboard 102, which is step 402, and the execution of step 402 can be triggered after the user presses the Start button included in the setting interface 104, wherein the start The main board 102 can adopt a common cold boot method, that is, the bus transmission interface 106 can be coupled with the power pin 116 to control the power on and off of the main board 102 by means of a short circuit. the

After the mainboard 102 is started, the counting unit 404 will count the number of startup times of the mainboard 102 (step 404), and the debugging operation unit 124 will read the debugging data generated when the mainboard 102 executes booting (step 406), The debug data mentioned here may preferably include the debug code data read through the connection between the bus transmission interface 106 and the I/O system unit 114, as well as the crash screen generated when the operating system fails (such as the blue crash screen of Windows), the debug code data can be displayed through the display device 112, and the above crash screen can be captured by the image capture interface 108 and stored in the power-on/off test via the recording unit 126 In the data, the user is allowed to know the booting errors of the I/O system unit 114 and the operating system simultaneously through the power-on/off test data. the

Next, the debug calculation unit 124 determines whether the accumulated number of detections of a debug code in the debug code data is greater than a specific value (step 408 ). For example, assuming that the specific value is set to 5 times, if the cumulative number of detections of a certain debugging code (such as 3C) is greater than 5 times, then the debugging operation unit 124 will judge that the motherboard 102 is in a shutdown state, and therefore, Step 412 will be executed; otherwise, step 410 will be executed next, which means to detect whether the read debug code data has a debug completion code (such as 00) and whether the actual power-on time of the motherboard 102 is greater than or equal to The boot time preset value (such as 15 seconds), if there is no, it means that the main board 102 has not completed the boot process, and then step 408 will be executed again, and so on, until the debug completion code and the actual status of the main board 102 are detected. The power-on time is greater than or equal to the preset value of the power-on time or until it is determined that the motherboard 102 is in a dead state. the

When it is detected that the debugging completion code and the actual power-on time of the motherboard 102 are greater than or equal to the preset value of the power-on time, the debugging operation unit 124 will also perform step 412, that is, the recording unit 416 will perform the step 412 according to the Error data and the number of startups generate the power-on/off test data corresponding to this test, such as using the fields of "number of startups" and "corresponding debug code" to generate statistical data, so that users can clearly get It is known whether the motherboard 102 has normally completed the boot process or is in a crash state in this test, and also allows the user to eliminate the corresponding crash problem according to the debug code generated when the crash occurs. the

Finally, in restarting the motherboard 102, after completing the recording of the power-on/off test data, the debugging operation unit 124 will control the power-on/off control unit 120 to shut down the motherboard 102 (step 414) and start to execute step 416, which is to detect Whether the debug code data has a shutdown debug code (such as FF) and determine whether the actual shutdown time of the motherboard 102 is greater than or equal to the preset value of the shutdown time (such as 5 seconds). In step 414, if the shutdown status code cannot be detected and the actual shutdown time of the mainboard 102 is determined to be less than the preset shutdown time, it means that the mainboard 102 has not successfully completed the shutdown procedure, so the debugging operation unit 124 Step 414 will be executed again to shut down the motherboard 102 until the shutdown debug code is detected and the actual shutdown time of the motherboard 102 is determined to be greater than or equal to the preset shutdown time. At this point, the debugging operation unit 124 can judge that the mainboard 102 has completed the shutdown procedure, so that the debugging operation unit 124 then executes step 402 again, so as to start the next power-on test, and so on, until reaching the use up to the number of tests set by the operator. the

Compared with the prior art, the present invention uses a programmable chip to read the debugging data generated when the mainboard is turned on and compares the power-on and off time, as a judgment basis for restarting the mainboard and to generate corresponding power-on and power-off test data Therefore, no matter whether the main board completes the boot process or is in a dead state, the restart device provided by the present invention can automatically restart the main board. In this way, it can not only greatly reduce the power-on/off stability detection time of the main board, but also help users to directly and clearly know the statistical data of the main board after repeated power-on and power-off without manual recording. And according to the debug code or crash screen generated when the system crashes, corresponding crash problems can be eliminated. the

The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and all equivalent changes and modifications made according to the claims of the present invention shall fall within the scope of the present invention. the

Claims (10)

1. A test method for automatically restarting mainboard and recording relevant debugging data, characterized in that, comprising: Set switch parameters; start at least one motherboard; Accumulate the startup times of the motherboard; reading a debug data generated when the motherboard executes booting; judging whether to restart the motherboard according to the debugging data and the power-on parameters; and A power-on/off test data is generated according to the debugging data and the startup times. 2. The testing method according to claim 1, wherein reading the debug data generated when the mainboard is powered on comprises reading a basic input output system and a unified extensible firmware interface of the mainboard A debug code data generated during POST or a freeze screen. 3. The testing method according to claim 2, wherein judging whether to restart the motherboard according to the debug data and the power-on/off parameters comprises: When it is judged that the accumulated detection times of a debug code in the debug code data is greater than a specific value, the motherboard is turned off. 4. The test method according to claim 2, wherein setting the power-on parameter includes setting a preset value of power-on time of the mainboard, and judging whether to restart the motherboard according to the debugging data and the power-on parameter. Motherboard contains: When detecting that the debug code data has a debug completion code and judging that the actual boot time of the motherboard is greater than or equal to the preset value of the boot time, the motherboard is turned off. 5. The test method according to claim 2, wherein setting the power-on parameter includes setting a preset value of a power-off time of the mainboard, and judging whether to restart the power-on system according to the debugging data and the power-on parameter. Motherboard contains: When it is detected that the debug code data has a shutdown state code and the actual shutdown time of the motherboard is determined to be greater than or equal to the preset value of the shutdown time, the motherboard is activated. 6. A reset device capable of automatically restarting the motherboard and recording relevant debugging data, characterized in that it comprises: A setting interface, which is used to set the power-on/off parameters corresponding to at least one motherboard; a bus transmission interface, which is used to electrically connect an input and output system unit and a power pin of the motherboard; A programmable chip, which is electrically connected to the bus transmission interface and the setting interface, the programmable chip includes: A switch control unit, which is used to restart the motherboard; a counting unit, which is used to count the number of startup times of the motherboard; A debugging operation unit, which is used to read a debugging data generated when the main board executes startup through the bus transmission interface, and judge whether to control the switching control unit to restart the computer according to the debugging data and the switching parameters. motherboard; and a recording unit, which is used to generate a power-on/off test data according to the debug data and the startup times; and An image capture interface is electrically connected to the programmable chip, and the image capture interface is used to capture a crash screen of the motherboard. 7. The restarting device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the debugging operation unit is used to read a BIOS or a unified extensible firmware interface of the motherboard to perform a power-on self-test. Debug code data. 8. The restarting device according to claim 7, wherein the debugging operation unit is used to control the power on and off when it is judged that the cumulative number of detections of a debugging code in the debugging code data is greater than a specific value The control unit turns off the motherboard. 9. The restarting device according to claim 7, wherein the setting interface is used to set a preset value of boot time of the motherboard, and the debugging operation unit is used to detect the debugging code data When there is a debugging completion code and it is judged that the actual power-on time of the motherboard is greater than or equal to the preset value of the power-on time, the power-on/off control unit is controlled to shut down the motherboard. 10. The restarting device according to claim 7, wherein the setting interface is used to set a preset value of shutdown time of the motherboard, and the debugging operation unit is used to detect the debugging code data When there is a power-off state code and it is judged that the actual power-off time of the motherboard is greater than or equal to the preset value of the power-off time, the power-on/off control unit is controlled to start the motherboard.

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