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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