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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2002
Jeoff M. Krontz, Tomball, TX (US);
Kevin G. Depew, Kingwood, TX (US);
John D. Nguyen, Cypress, TX (US);
David F. Heinrich, Tomball, TX (US);
David W. Engler, Cypress, TX (US);
Vincent Nguyen, Sugarland, TX (US);
Randolph O. Dow, Waller, TX (US);
Owais Kidwai, Cypress, TX (US);
Jeoff M. Krontz, Tomball, TX (US);
Kevin G. Depew, Kingwood, TX (US);
John D. Nguyen, Cypress, TX (US);
David F. Heinrich, Tomball, TX (US);
David W. Engler, Cypress, TX (US);
Vincent Nguyen, Sugarland, TX (US);
Randolph O. Dow, Waller, TX (US);
Owais Kidwai, Cypress, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The specification discloses a server system implementing hot pluggable memory boards in an architecture using X86 processors and off-the-shelf operating system, such as Windows® or Netware, which do not support hot plugging operations. Thus, the specification discloses systems and related methods for hot plugging main memory boards transparent to, and without the help of, the operating system. The operating system need only have the ability to recognize additional memory in order to use it. Moreover, the specification discloses a related set of memory error detection and correction techniques, again which are implementing transparent to, and without the help of, the operating system.