BF2S Forums Battery backups

pasngr wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good battery backup?  Last night I got a one-second loss of power and eventhough I have a brand new APC battery backup, my whole system just crashed.  I had a computer, 15' CRT monitor, a router and a cable modem plugged into the battery backup slots at the time of the crash.  Here are the backup details:   
Model: Back-UPS ES 750
Firmware revision: 819.z2.D
USB firmware revision: z2
CPU: Intel  Pentium
Amount of RAM: 2,047  MB
Free disk space: 1,840  MB
Software version: PowerChute Personal Edition  1.5
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600)

Thanks in advance for any help.

DOOD!!!  unless you have a 2 gig drive THAT'S A PROBLEM!!!
Are you sure it crashed, with powerchute installed maybe it just powered down?  I use a UPS, but don't plug in the sensor cable so my computer only shuts off if the UPS runs out of battery power.

Rookie CAF:  Yes, I was using the slots for the battery backup and not just the surge protection.

Slo5oh:  What does not having much free hard drive space have to do with battery backups?  And I know it crashed b/c everything just shut off immediately.  One minute I'm about to TV a tank and the next I'm going "oh cmon , WTF!?"

puckmercury:  Yes, I made sure the battery was plugged in before installation.  The PowerChute monitoring system has gone to battery power for very brief periods before (4 seconds of blackout and 5 seconds of electrical noise) so I know it's plugged in.

So, as you can see, I'm at a loss to explain this crash.

Also, one thing I forgot to mention in my OP is that it started beeping continuously when the crash occured.  Which leads me to believe it was not fully juiced up, but the day before I checked it and it was fully charged, claiming to have enough power for 55 minutes.

Last edited by pasngr (2006-07-10 22:31:02)

Have you tried testing the APC before this happened...

Try turning off the circuit Breakers in your house/apartment.

Which version of PowerChute are you using? The personal edition?

Other things to try, make sure that the USB cable is plugged in to the motherboard based USB slots. Make sure that your monitor and other non-critical perepherals are not plugged in to your UPS; its there to save your data not your game

Of course, if you want one that you can still keep playing with then drop me a PM; I'm an APC partner

<< EDIT >>

Just seen that you are running the Person Edition... uninstall it and use the UPS control built in to Windows; its more reliable IMHO.

Last edited by FathomsDown (2006-07-11 05:53:02)

puckmercury wrote:

A 750 should be able to easily handle the load of a PC, monitor, router, and modem for at least 5 minutes.

Under a usual workload then yes, but remember that games cause a PC to draw much more power in to run the CPU and GPU. If you draw over 400W (and some PCs can draw more than that on their own) then a 750 will overload and fail. I have two CS units at home and my PC will only run for 2 minutes when its plugged in to one and running BF2... and thats without anything else plugged in there.