In a message on Wednesday 01-25-16 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GE AGN Ed,

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

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

Maybe it's a after-sale-computer, hi.

 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.

That may be the case, but it also requires you to have the computer
connected to the "net" continuously.

I connect to the "net" only when I want to do something that I can't
do locally, IOW, Off-line.

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

Yes, that is correct, but see above.

EV> ntp.org sends the Time Signal on Port 123, that's about all I know
EV> without seeing what others have written about it on Wikipedia.

I checked my list of ports for various protocols, and #123 isn't listed!


GN Ed es 73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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