Hi,
I have two DIMMs of 512 MB DDR each. i purchased the second one some days ago. I installed the new RAM and it worked fine. Had no problems at that time.

I also purchased new SATA Seagate HDD of 160 GB about 3 months ago. But it has got bad sectors so i had removed it, and, i have been working with my 8 GB old Seagate HDD. The HDD is another issue for which i will POST another topic.

So 2 days ago, i had to take some data out of my bad HDD. So i cleaned my PC of some dust(I do that in few days), and then plugged in, the bad SATA HDD. When i powered up, it gave the same error as it is giving now i.e. when i power up the PC, it says:

Maximum memory performance is achieved with matched DIMMs.
The installed amount of memory in channel A is not equal to the amount of(further message was truncated, couldnt see what was written ahead).
Press any key to continue..

When i PRESSED a key, then it says:
CMOS/GPNV checksum bad
CMOS Date/Time not set

Then i have to get into BIOS, set the date and time and also the boot order, and save the changes. And then the PC boots up fine.
But everytime i shutdown and start the PC, again it starts showing the same message. I have reseated the DIMMs too.

Why is this happening? About 8 MB i think goes for the video memory, so it shows 1016 MB of RAM on startup. Uptill now the PC was working fine. Why the error now? I have also removed the bad HDD.

Looking forward to answers.

My PC is assembled, with Intel P-IV processor, 1024 MB DDR RAM (512 MB * 2).

Thanks,

AnupamDate time settings lost usually means that your CMOS battery is dead. Try replacing it and see what happens (It may even help with the other error) Quote from: hmar on July 24, 2008, 06:52:56 AM

Date time settings lost usually means that your CMOS battery is dead. Try replacing it and see what happens (It may even help with the other error)