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HP48GX, missing alarm beep Message #1 Posted by Thomas Otterbein on 19 Sept 2003, 9:46 a.m. Hi.. I own a new HP48GX. All is working fine, except the alarm beep. During a alarm there is now beep. The alarm flags are set, but nevertheless, no beep is to hear. When I do wrong inputs, the HP48 beeps. Also the beep comand with time and frequencies is working, except the alarm beep :-( What Iīm doing wrong? B.t.w. the calculator has the newes ROM-Version īRī. Thanks for helping.. Thomas, Germany

Re: HP48GX, missing alarm beep Message #2 Posted by Wayne Brown on 19 Sept 2003, 5:52 p.m., in response to message #1 by Thomas Otterbein If flag -57 is set then the alarm beep is disabled. Clear it with -57 CF and I'll bet your alarm beep starts working.

Re: HP48GX, missing alarm beep Message #3 Posted by Thomas Otterbein on 20 Sept 2003, 4:46 a.m., in response to message #2 by Wayne Brown Hi... you loose :-( I set the flag, that the alarm beep is on. But it didnīt help. The beep is still missing during the alarm. I will continue playing. With other commands and with wrong inputs, the beep works. Only with the alarm it didnīt. Strange..isnīt it? Bye.. Thomas, Germany

Re: HP48GX, missing alarm beep Message #4 Posted by James M. Prange on 20 Sept 2003, 5:53 a.m., in response to message #3 by Thomas Otterbein Well, maybe if you clear flag -57... Regards, James

Re: HP48GX, missing alarm beep Message #5 Posted by Michel Beaulieu on 20 Sept 2003, 8:08 p.m., in response to message #4 by James M. Prange Use the reset hole under a rubber feet if you don'T worry about loosing memory...

Re: HP48GX, missing alarm beep Message #6 Posted by Thomas Otterbein on 21 Sept 2003, 8:12 a.m., in response to message #4 by James M. Prange Hi all, thankīs for all the hints. Either Iīm to stupid for this calculator or somthing is wrong. I tried in the meantime: - Reset (by switch under the rubber foot - Set and canceled the flag 57 - set the alarm direct after the calculator reset - and so on........ The result, the alarm didnīt beep. I think I have to live with it :-) Bye.. Thomas, Germany

Re: HP48GX, missing alarm beep Message #7 Posted by Wayne Brown on 21 Sept 2003, 10:40 a.m., in response to message #6 by Thomas Otterbein Make sure it's flag -57 and not 57 that you're clearing -- the minus sign is required. Negative flags are system flags, whereas positive flags are user flags. The alarm beep is controlled by a system flag.

Re: HP48GX, missing alarm beep Message #8 Posted by Thomas Otterbein on 21 Sept 2003, 11:46 a.m., in response to message #7 by Wayne Brown Hi.. it works... I know now why it didnīt work before. When I set a alarm and insert a alarm message, the beep is missing. Without a message...the beep comes during a alarm. I think itīs mentioned in the manual. How I can handle the 48 when I even understand the beep funktions, I should stay at may good old HP41CX with card reader :-)) Itīs realy nice, that you stay in contact with such guys as me :-))..... Have a nice day!!! Bye.. Thomas, Germany

Re: HP48GX, missing alarm beep Message #9 Posted by James M. Prange on 22 Sept 2003, 3:55 a.m., in response to message #8 by Thomas Otterbein Appointment alarms cause the alarm beep. For the alarm to be an appointment alarm, the "alarm message" has to be a character string; that is, text enclosed by double-quotation marks, as in: "HELLO". If you leave the message field in the input form empty, then an empty character string, "", is entered for you, so that causes it to be an appointment alarm. Any other type of alarm object causes the alarm to be treated as an execution alarm, which doesn't cause an alarm beep. For example, if you enter: HELLO (without quotation marks) into the message field, it will be treated as an execution alarm. Execution alarm objects are usually programs or global variable names for programs. You could use a program object which explicitly executes the BEEP command as the alarm object. Of course, for the BEEP command to be effective, the standard beep has to be turned on; that is, flag -56 must be clear. Regards, James Edited: 22 Sept 2003, 5:47 a.m.

Re: HP48GX, missing alarm beep Message #10 Posted by Thomas Otterbein on 23 Sept 2003, 2:59 a.m., in response to message #1 by Thomas Otterbein Thank you all for your kind help ! Bye.. Thomas, GERMANY

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