01-20-16 21:25 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Weird#2
Howdy! Holger, GE,

 HG> {at}MSGID: 
 HG> In a message on Wednesday 01-19-16 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

 HG> GE Ed,
 HG> yeah it really is evening even here.

 EV> Thanks, I'll have a look at the BIOS to see if that is an option on
 EV> Start Up.

I looked at the BIOS screens and didn't see anything about if the Error
Beeps could be turned On or Off.

Maybe HP didn't put a transducer in this model?

 HG> Some even had several different beeps, depending on the error they want
 HG> you to know about.

 HG> As long as the time on the clock is correct, and date is correct, when
 HG> you start up, the culprit is not the battery.

 EV> I was "thinking" even if that battery was dead I would see the Time
 EV> and Date would have the correct settings when I turned the power On,
 EV> because it would be updated before I saw the Desktop due to the pc
 EV> getting its Clock set through the signal passed to it from the NTP
 EV> Servers.

 HG> I don't know anything about NTP, but I do know that you can keep the
 HG> time updated via the net.

I 'think' NTP means Network Time Protocol that the Time Servers at NIST,
Microsoft or some other Countries Standard Time server.

In 2006 I had no idea that this XP computers Time was adjusted regularly,
Automatically, until Jeff explained it to me.

ntp.org sends the Time Signal on Port 123, that's about all I know without
seeing what others have written about it on Wikipedia.
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 HG>  * MR/2 2.30 * Keyboard - a device for entering errors into a computer.

I'd say a big AMEN to that.

73

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