K7T Pro: Only 2 dimms with 133MHz memspeed?

[Lunkwill]

I have a problem with my K7T-Pro. I have one 64mb and two 32mb PC100 dimms in my machine. They work without a problem at both 100, 133 and 141Mhz (111fsb + 33) speeds, rock solid. But when I enable the +33 mem speed feature the BIOS seems to switch off the third DIMM-slot. (only reports 96mb total memory)

Is this supposed to happen? Is there any BIOS hack/patch to get around this?

 

[Mem]

This is new to me however you should download the latest Bios update & see if that fixes the problem if not contact MSI via Email or tech support & make them aware of this problem.

 

[Lunkwill]

I will send an email now, but I don't think it's a bug... Isn't there a PC133 (intel) standard thingy that only allows 2 dimm-slots (4 banks) when running PC133 memory?

 

[Mem]

But you have a Via board for AMD processors it should handle the ram ,I mean what`s the limited 1.5 GB so yours is noway near that.Also it says it supports six memory banks so It must be a Bios problem.

 

[Lunkwill]

Well maybe, I have sent the email now, will report the answer (if any) here.

If you read the spec. it says that 6 banks are suported, as well as 133MHz mem speed. But it doesn't say that both are supported at the same time...

Btw. is "super bypass" specific to the AMD750 chipset, or is there any VIA mainboards out there with that feature?

 

[Mem]

I think superbypass is only on the AMD750.