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This Technical Advisory describes an issue which may or may not affect the customer’s product
Technical Advisory TA 719-02
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October 27, 2004
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Figure 1. below is an accurate representation of the Intel Server Board SE7221BK1-E memory map with
4 GB of physical memory installed. Note the OS will report available memory only slightly above 3 GB when 4 GB is
installed, and only slightly below 3 GB of available memory when 3GB is installed. Figure 2. on the following page
shows a breakdown of onboard system resources and their general memory consumption characteristics when 4 GB of
memory is installed in the system.
Figure 1. 4GB memory address range utilized by Intel® E7221 chipset resources.