PC in New Perspective
PC TeleVision Music System Fax Machine Answering Machine Computer
TVComputerMusic System IR Detector USB Port
Press Computer Switch Power On Self Test Initialize Memory Controller Scan and Initialize All PCI Devices Load boot record and then OS Power ON Do Nothing Present Procedure Find the available OS list & Display OS selection Menu Read User Selection Load Boot loader from MBR
Press Computer Switch Power On Self Test Initialize Memory Controller Scan and Initialize All PCI Devices Find Boot Device and load OS Power ON Keep polling for front panel switches and on IR activity New Procedure Computer
New Procedure TV Press TV Switch Load the TV card Driver i.e. Make the TV card a PCI Master And VGA Card a PCI Slave Hard Disk and CD Drive will be In sleep mode (power save mode) Processor will be in halted (PCI North bridge will be unused now)
New Procedure Music System Press Music System Switch Load the sound card driver. Read MP3 files from CD(CDFS) Execute MP3 player (No GUI) Hard Disk will be in sleep mode. Monitor will be in power save mode