Decrease in Momory Message

From: The Baba (hoofaaa_at_NOSPAMyahoo.com)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:57:25 -0800

I was working on a friends computer, and installing XP on it. It would get
up to 33%, then it just stopped. I figured it was a memory issue, so I
swapped out the 128MB stick for a good one I had. Everything installed fine,
so I put in the old memory again. When it booted, it said 'Decrease in
memory size'. I went to the BIOS it said it had 128MB. Everything worked
fine though, except the date and time in the BIOS was 1/1/1999. I fixed that
issue, and put the other 128MB stick in it, and the same date/time thing
happened.

Everything else is running fine.

Could it be the BIOS battery that's the issue?

Thanks for any feedback... 

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