Peripheral component interconnect (PCI) card for selectively processing a PCI bus reset signal and method for resetting the PCI card

摘要

A PCI card for selectively processing PCI bus reset signal and a method for resetting PCI card are disclosed. In a PCI card of a computer system having PCI bus, the PCI card for selectively processing PCI bus reset signal includes: reset control circuit unit which is connected to the PCI bus and decides whether to reset the PCI card or ignore the received reset signal according to the received reset signal and outputs the decided result when a reset signal is received from the computer system through the PCI bus; CPU controlling the reset control circuit unit; memory unit including firmware diagnosing whether each component of the PCI card works normally or not and reporting the result of the diagnosing to the CPU, supposed that the reset signal of the PCI card is received from the CPU; and power module for supplying power to the PCI card.