Intel DN2800MT Technical Product Specification for Intel Desktop Board DN2800M - Page 43
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2 Technical Reference 2.1 Memory Resources 2.1.1 Addressable Memory The board utilizes 4 GB of addressable system memory. Typically the address space that is allocated for PCI Conventional bus add-in cards, PCI Express configuration space, BIOS (SPI Flash device), and chipset overhead resides above the top of DRAM (total system memory). On a system that has 4 GB of system memory installed, it is not possible to use all of the installed memory due to system address space being allocated for other system critical functions. These functions include the following: • BIOS/SPI Flash device (2 Mbit) • Local APIC (19 MB) • Direct Media Interface (40 MB) • PCI Express configuration space (256 MB) • PCH base address registers • PCI Express ports (up to 256 MB) • Memory-mapped I/O that is dynamically allocated for PCI Express add-in cards (256 MB) The board provides the capability to reclaim the physical memory overlapped by the memory mapped I/O logical address space. The board remaps physical memory from the top of usable DRAM boundary to the 4 GB boundary to an equivalent sized logical address range located just above the 4 GB boundary. Figure 11 shows a schematic of the system memory map. All installed system memory can be used when there is no overlap of system addresses. 43