First post, by maxtherabbit
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About roughly 2 years ago I bought a DS12887+ from ebay. Was from a highly rated seller and sold as NOS. 2017 Production date printed on it.
As soon as it arrived, I tested it in a machine and it worked fine. The project I had intended to use it for never materialized, so I stopped the clock as outlined here:
Conserving Dallas RTC chips
Yesterday I received a 486 board with a flat Dallas (socketed). So I decided to pull out my stored away replacement and stick it in there. BIOS is telling me its battery is now low.
Typically I purchase these things from Digikey, but at the time they were out of them or something. Did I get a remarked chip? (I will update the thread this afternoon with a pic, the markings do look different than my other ones)
Or it is possible that something else is going on, a edge case incompatibility with the motherboard where everything else works?
