Be warned, however, that if your PC is sensative to voltage dips, a UPS can cause PERMANENT PHYSICAL DAMAGE. Check the speed of switch-over on the UPS!
Not all UPSs are made equal!
Whenever the power goes out, the UPS 'switches' from wall power to battery backup. This takes a few nanoseconds. If your system devices cannot function during a drop or outage that long, they can be damaged. Namely harddrives can get stuck parked, and require a hard-reset or, in the case of some older drives, manual physical reset of the read/write head. Either case can cause data corruption.
As well, check the min/max voltage peaks on the UPS. If the switch causes a surge too high, it can fry sensative parts, especially the CPU (which can fail from just a 0.05v overvolt!)
Athlon64's are especially picky, as are P4ee systems. Some motherboards also hate it, such as the A7N8X line (and most nForce chipsets, for that matter), and some Intel chipsets.
Most durable are Via and SiS chipsets. For as moderately as they perform, they take incredible abuse.
----- Original Message -----
From: noneyet10
To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: Digest Number 1444
I'll toss in my two cents worth of advice too. G. Buy a battery back-up for
your computer. When the lights go out, your computer and monitor will still
be running long enough for you to save your work and shut everything down
safely. Trust me. The very first time that the lights go out while you have
three hours worth of unsaved art on your screen, you will feel a thrill of
elation and you will cheerfully say to yourself, "Hey! I still have 15 to
20 minutes to save my work and turn off my computer." G. That's such a good
feeling to have that it's worth the price of a battery back-up. Most
computer stores carry them too.
http://www.apc.com/products/category.cfm?id=13&subid=5
Edward Fox
At 04:00 PM 6/4/2005 , you wrote:
>*shudders at the thoughts of reinstalling everything*
>i hate it when that happens. but you seem pretty
>confident :) hope it all goes smoothly.
>
>--- "Take a wild, friggin guess"
><a_change_of_plans_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com,
> > ShinkuuForceZERO_at_a... wrote:
> > > It's your motherboard Jim, it's been fried. I know
> > because a storm
> > did the
> > > same to my own & I went a week without a
> > functioning comp.
> >
> > Turns out it wasn't anything _quite_ so drastic as
> > that. Apparently,
> > when the power went off (which only lasted maybe 2-3
> > seconds), the
> > system was writing something to the registry (this
> > is what was
> > explained to me while trying to fix the problem).
> > The computer never
> > knew the power went out, since it was still on when
> > the power
> > returned. In any case, I had to install another
> > version of XP on the
> > HD in order to gain access to the drive. I
> > copied/moved whatever files
> > I _had_ to have onto another drive. I will be
> > reformatting the HD and
> > installing a fresh copy of XP later today, I hope.
> > Then I will simply
> > have to reinstall the different programs I used.
> > Shouldn't be too bad.
> >
> > --JMH, famous last words...
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>my strength and my sanctum are found in my solitude.
>
>Ich bin ein Ausländer.
>
>
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