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X10SAE User’s Manual
•For Microsoft Windows users: Microsoft implemented a design change in the
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows Vista. This change is
specic to the behavior of Physical Address Extension (PAE) mode which
improves driver compatibility. For more information, please read the following
article at Microsoft’s Knowledge Base website at: http://support.microsoft.
com/kb/888137.
Possible System Memory Allocation & Availability
System Device Size Physical Memory
Remaining (-Available)
(4 GB Total System
Memory)
Firmware Hub ash memory (System BIOS) 1 MB 3.99
Local APIC 4 KB 3.99
Area Reserved for the chipset 2 MB 3.99
I/O APIC (4 Kbytes) 4 KB 3.99
PCI Enumeration Area 1 256 MB 3.76
PCI Express (256 MB) 256 MB 3.51
PCI Enumeration Area 2 (if needed) -Aligned on 256-MB
boundary-
512 MB 3.01
VGA Memory 16 MB 2.85
TSEG 1 MB 2.84
Memory available to OS and other applications 2.84
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