ASUS TS500-E5 ユーザーズマニュアル

Chapter 2:  Hardware setup

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The Intel

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 5100MCH chipset supports the memory sparing technology. Refer to the 

below section:

At configuration time, a DIMM rank is set aside to replace a defective DIMM rank. 

When the error rate for a failing DIMM rank reaches a pre-determined threshold, 

the memory sparing function will issue an interrupt and initiate a spare copy. At the 

completion of the copy, the failing DIMM rank is disabled and the “spared” DIMM rank 

will be used in its place. Refer to section 5.4.3 Chipset and configure the options of 

Channel Rank Sparing or Channel 1 Rank Sparing to enable the memory sparing 

functions. The default BIOS setting is disabled.

•  Each channel contains its own sparing engine and can be enabled or 

disabled separately.

•  This motherboard does not support rank sparing across channels.
•  The DIMM rank with the largest size will be assigned as spare rank. Data 

can only be copied from a smaller sized rank to a larger sized one.

•  A DIMM can contain only one or two ranks. To support sparing function, a 

DIMM channel should contain at least two ranks.

•  When sparing function is enabled, the usable memory size will reduce the 

size of the spare ranks.

The following tables show memory configurations with Memory Sparing function in 

Channel A/B.

One DIMM per channel (two ranks)

1024 MB

1024 MB

2048 MB