Does the addressable physical memory range depend on which slots are occupied by the memory?
Does the addressable physical memory range depend on which slots are
occupied by the memory? Say, I have a 32-bit CPU and 128M RAM, and the motherboard has 4 slots for plugging the RAM in. My question is if the following statement is correct: No matter which of the 4 slots is occupied by the RAM, CPU can always address the physical address range from 0-128M. In other words, when CPU reads/writes data from/to the address 0x000000FF, it will always succeed, no matter which of the 4 slots is occupied by the RAM. Is this correct? Any help will be appreciated. |
Does the addressable physical memory range depend on which slotsare occupied by the memory?
I have found this to be correct for modern motherboards using DIMMs. Some older motherboards using SIMMs were not so tolerant. Lighter wrote: Does the addressable physical memory range depend on which slots are occupied by the memory? Say, I have a 32-bit CPU and 128M RAM, and the motherboard has 4 slots for plugging the RAM in. My question is if the following statement is correct: No matter which of the 4 slots is occupied by the RAM, CPU can always address the physical address range from 0-128M. In other words, when CPU reads/writes data from/to the address 0x000000FF, it will always succeed, no matter which of the 4 slots is occupied by the RAM. Is this correct? Any help will be appreciated. -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
Does the addressable physical memory range depend on which slots are occupied by the memory?
Lighter wrote: Does the addressable physical memory range depend on which slots are occupied by the memory? Say, I have a 32-bit CPU and 128M RAM, and the motherboard has 4 slots for plugging the RAM in. My question is if the following statement is correct: No matter which of the 4 slots is occupied by the RAM, CPU can always address the physical address range from 0-128M. In other words, when CPU reads/writes data from/to the address 0x000000FF, it will always succeed, no matter which of the 4 slots is occupied by the RAM. Is this correct? 1) 0x07FFFFFF would be the last physical 32-bit RAM address with 128M. 2) It wouldn't succeed if either the CPU, RAM, or RAM slot was defective. (It DOES happen) 3) If you're only loading, for example, slot 1 and 4, the only GOOD reason is a bad ram slot, otherwise, it just looks odd. And if a technician saw you do that, he'd wonder if you were smoking something. 4) Some motherboards don't like being loaded like that. And do require ram to be loaded starting with the lowest numbered slot. 5) Some types of memory (mostly obsolete simms) don't like being loaded like that. A more modern example is Rambus. 6) It would likely screw with Dual Channel mode, forcing single channel. The short version, is don't do that unless you have a *good* reason to. If you do, you will probably get away with it with no major issues. Any help will be appreciated. |
Does the addressable physical memory range depend on which slots are occupied by the memory?
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Does the addressable physical memory range depend on wh
Um, YES, because of TLB address spaces are automatically mapped to
physical addresses k....cool |
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