Question regarding Voltage Regulator - APC Line-R 1200VA.

[Anonymous user]

Hello,
I’m planning to buy “APC Line-R 1200VA Automatic Voltage Regulator” for my PC, and would like to see others experiences and recommendations.
Here is my full story:
Until few days ago my old PC was working fine, but then I bought multifunctional device- laser printer with scanner (Samsung SCX-3200 Series) and that’s when my troubles started.
First, I had troubles installing printer drivers, during driver instalation, PC was restarting few times. Anyway I managed to install those drivers. Then, trying to print on my new printer, PC would again start with “random rebooting”. Because all devices around PC (CRT monitor, laser printer, PC, small speaker and lamp) were pluged directly into the same wall power outlet, I assumed it might be some power/voltage anomalies are causing PC to restart.
Meanwhile, CRT display started something like flickering-waving, so I thought degaussing should fix the display (even speaker is not so close to CRT monitor, and it’s a small speaker). Pressed the degauss button and my PC “died” – it turned off and is not reacting anymore. Printer is working fine (it can copy documents even when not pluged into computer).
Wanted to see if it is maybe PC power suply unit related issue, I have changed power supply unit with another one, but nothing happened. Anyway all the time (when PC’s power supply unit is on) one diode on motherboard is on, so I think that motherboard IS getting some electricity (power supply unit should be ok).
I am going to buy new motherboard (all together with CPU and RAM memory) and also some voltage regulatory device to protect all new components. We live in an area where voltage brownouts are happening quite often (visible on light strenght).
I have read somewhere on internet that degaussing consumes large amount of power, and also that CRT monitors and laser printers are big power consumers too. That is probable reason for motherboard’s ‘crash’. Printer’s documentation says that in an average operating mode power consumption is “Less than 270W”.
I would like to protect this PC with Voltage Regulator rather than with some UPS because there is no need for UPS’s which works through batteries (we use this old PC only for some basic things - surfing on net, listening to music …).
Question: Is “APC Line-R 1200VA Automatic Voltage Regulator” good for my situation and which devices should I plug in to it and which not?
I have two wall outlets around table, so I was thinking maybe only PC to be pluged in Voltage Regulator that is going to be on one wall outlet; and laser printer, CRT, lamp and speaker on second wall outlet.
Appreciate any recommendations and suggestions.
(Thank you for your patience)

[BillP · Accepted solution]

For your problem I would go with a battery backup such as the back-ups es550 the regulator might not do the job