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2.3.3 Memory mirroring and sparing technology

The Intel

5000P chipset supports the memory mirroring and sparing technology.

Refer to the below sections:

Memory Mirroring:

When enabling memory mirroring function in the BIOS setting (please refer the

section

5.4.2ChipsetConguration

and congure the option

Memory Branch

Mode as

[Mirror]), Branch 1 contains a replicate copy of the data in Branch 0. The

DIMMs must cover the same slot position on both branches. DIMMs that cover a

slot position must be identical with respect to size, speed, and organization. DIMMs

within a slot position must match each other, but aren’t required to match adjacent

slot positions.

And the total memories size will be the half of all installed memories.

The below two memory congurations were required to operate in mirrored mode.

1. Conguration 1 (Mirroring):

Four memories population

DIMM 00 (Slot 0:Channel 0)

MCH

Branch 0

DIMM 01 (Slot 1:Channel 0)

DIMM 10 (Slot 0:Channel 1)

DIMM 11 (Slot 1:Channel 1)

DIMM 20 (Slot 0:Channel 2)

DIMM 21 (Slot 1:Channel 2)

DIMM 30 (Slot 0:Channel 3)

DIMM 31 (Slot 1:Channel 3)

Branch 1

(Mirror)

2. Conguration 2 (Mirroring) :

Eight memories population