In a message on Wednesday 01-19-16 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   GE Ed,   
   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.   
      
   Some even had several different beeps, depending on the error they want   
   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.   
      
   I don't know anything about NTP, but I do know that you can keep the   
   time updated via the net.   
      
   EV> For several days last week I couldn't use the pc because it wouldn't   
   EV> complete POST.   
      
   I'll just remind you that you're running Windows.   
      
   EV> Sunday night I unplugged everything connected to the pc and tried   
   EV> starting it up with only the Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse and Monitor   
   EV> connected to it, and it finished POST.   
      
   OK, so far so good.   
      
   EV> I finally got Logged On and grabbed a .QWK Packet and my Email and   
   EV> shut it Off for the night.   
      
   Some thing seems to work.   
      
   EV> about why I've been absent since I wrote my messages on January 7th.   
      
   I don't worry, I just reply to the messages I receive.   
   Maybe I would start worrying as I do when I haven't seen Jean for some   
   time.   
      
   EV> Hopefully I'll find what cable was causing my problems when I start   
   EV> re-connecting all the wires, one at a time, to see if I can find the   
   EV> Trouble Maker.   
      
   73 es GN,   
      
   Holger   
      
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