On Friday I snagged a generic AMD 386/33 system to restore. The onboard battery was starting to leak (like normal, was dead) so I removed it. I installed a coin battery holder and 3V coin battery in its place. I was under the assumption those (stock) are not rechargable batteries (like in an Amiga where they have 3 legs). Well I heard some noise running that system today, got a battery is low from the machine on a reboot, and decided to look at it. Battery was still intact but was reading 4VDC, new batteries might read up to 3.3V but not 4V. Is that board trying to charge up the battery?
Anybody else experience this?
Anybody else experience this?