I concur about the APC products. I bought the home office model, the
Back-UPS Office, for about $150 two or three years ago and it's
excellent. I see that you can find it online now for $79. It's well
worth it. Gives you perfectly clean power all the time, plus it gives
you 10 minutes (roughly) to shut down in case of an outage.
One caveat: it doesn't automatically shut itself down. Only some APC
models do that, but they all AFAIK require a serial connection, which
I couldn't spare.
Made my monitor work better, too, as it used to cycle on and off once
when first turning my machine on. Never does that any more, though.
On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 20:04:20 -0800, Norman McBride
>If you get electrical variances that big, you should definitely plunk
>down the cash for a battery backup UPS.
>I use APC's at work and they are great. I'm sure others are just as
>good, I just haven't used them.
>We have horrible power at work and get spikes and drops all the time.
>Have yet to lose a system running on a UPS. The monster units we have
>can keep the servers up long enough for us to go over and shut them down
>gracefully. A little out of our price range for the home, though.
>For general home use, the model around $99 should be fine. If nothing
>else it provides you with more consistant power. Don't hook up a laser
>printer to it, though. They take too much power to make the UPS useful.
>> Hi,
>> My computer has crashed while running GPL a few times lately. It seemed to
>> happen on-line mostly, and when I was hosting (sorry people!) especially. At
>> first I though it was because of my over clocking, but, reverting to 300
>> didn't stop it. I get the blue screen with:
>> "Fatal exception 0D has occurred at 0028:C0004418 in VDX VMM(01) + 00003918"
>> which I find extremely informative. Ha...
>> I've noticed it seems to occur when the furnace fan (that's a big fan that
>> drives warm air for heating the house, for those fortunate enough not to
>> know what it is) kicks in. I think I may be getting a momentary AC voltage
>> drop large enough to effect the computer. It does cause a barely noticeable
>> ripple on my screen too. The computer works fine through it running anything
>> but GPL.
>> Any opinions about whether that would do it? And second, what can I do to
>> stop it? Would a heavy duty surge arrestor do anything? Any help would be
>> appreciated.
>> Kevin Caldwell
>> Calgary, Canada
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