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APC RS 1500VA

Hello, What test can be ran on an APC RS 1500VA to check its life status??? Thank you,E
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Chirping LS 700

The last 2 weeks the unit has been "chirping" twice randomly while flashing the replace battery red light. It might go 8 to 10 hours without a sound and then it might do it 6 times in the next hour. I ...
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Chirping of BACK-UPS LS 700

The last 2 weeks the unit has been "chirping" twice randomly while flashing the replace battery red light. It might go 8 to 10 hours without a sound and then it might do it 3 times in the next hour. I ...
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UPS shuts down before hibernation complete

I'm having a problem with my Back-UPS RS 1000I shutting down before the hibernation process on my computer has been completed. I have found that my system can take between 3.5 and 5 minutes to hibernat...
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building wiring fault with unit only

Since a little while now, there is burning odor coming out of the unit and the building wiring fault light is lit on whenever i unplug my USB cable from the unit to my comp usb port. Nothing plug on th...
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battery cartridge connection

this is my first ups and i am ready to connect the battery. i have a red cable and a black cable. i am assuming red is positive, black is negative. i can connect the red cable to the pos terminal, but ...
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Long run battery.

Hi all, I am looking for a solution, hopefully I am coming to the right place. I work for a fairly large school district and am responsible for around 40 point of sale PCs for the food service system. ...
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High CPU usage solved with upgrade to PowerChute Personal Edition 2.1....

Hi everyone- I have a new Vista laptop and noticed extremely high CPU usage (46-49%) coming from the APC PowerChute Personal Edition v. 2.0 software (mainserv.exe) that came with my UPS. I was getting ...
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Disable Hibernate in Vista

I am running Windows Vista on my PC and I have an XS1300LCD connected to it. Instead of shutting my computer down completely, it tries to put it into hibernation. For some reason, hibernation has never...
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Back-UPS RS1300VA LCD - Overclock Failed error. Please Help!

I recently bought an RS 1300VA Back-UPS. However, i run it on an overclocked machine with a 750 Watt power supply running an E6850 core 2 Duo 3.GHz processor overclocked to 3.3Ghz. The problem I'm hav...
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Back UPS ES 550 Beeps each night at same time

I need some advise on how to remedy the annoying beeping that occurs each night around the same time form my Back UPS ES 550. I have been using this UPS for the past 2 months without any issues. Just t...
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