Problem with alarms (HP 41CX)

[Patrick Jamet]

Hello

I bought a HP 41CX recently and I believe that I have a little problem with the alarms because nothing happens when the alarm is due, instead the alarm is only activated when I press ON to shutdown the HP 41.

I set an alarm. Wait. The Calculator is ON. Nothing happens. I press ON and then ding dong... Why?

It has work at a moment, 2 or 3 days ago, but not any more. Maybe, I set or cleared a flag since.

Could you help me ?

Many thanks.

Patrick

[Patrick Jamet]

Hello!

Nobody has an idea of the reason of my problem? Is it a known bug? Thank you.

Patrick

[Dia C. Tran]

Your problem seems to be of that a past due alarm. Is it possible that you accidentally set the alarm for a date or time in the past?

[Patrick Jamet]

Indeed, all my attempts end as if the alarms are past dues. But they are not. I tried a dozen times.

I tried with Y and Z set to zero, or not.

I tried message alarms, control alarms, and conditional alarms. None of them works.

The flags set are: 26, 29, 31, 38, 39, 40.

Patrick.

[Garth Wilson]

The possibility that you're setting them for a time in the past was a good idea. How are you entering the time? Remeber it's not relative, but time of day. So if it were 10:00 and you want the alarm to activate in a minute and a half at 10:01:30, you enter 10.0130, not .0130 which would have been almost ten hours ago.

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