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Install UPS (uninterruptable power supply) in Vista
John,
Interesting, the Serial UPS that I tried had no drivers included with it, the user interface depended on the native operating system drivers. (XP had native serial and UPS drivers). My current USB UPS (say that five times fast) is dependent on the native 'batteries' driver. Just as a point of curiosity does your UPS show up in Device Manager? (Mine is labeled 'batteries). When checking Microsoft knowledge bases they said Vista did not support Serial. Perhaps the OP should continue to try, starting at the manufactures site to check for Vista drivers as well as user interface. (CyberPower battery backup, Vista(32) Home Premium) Michael "John" wrote in message ... "Michael" wrote in message news Vista will not use a com port for a UPS. (XP would) You will need to get a UPS that uses USB. (been there done that grrrr.) Michael Not necessarily true. My Vista 64 installation recognizes my APC Smart-UPS 1400, which uses a serial port, via the APC software just fine. |
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Install UPS (uninterruptable power supply) in Vista
Yes, the APC software should work.
It's Vista's built-in power management that won't work with serial ports. "John" wrote in message ... "Michael" wrote in message news Vista will not use a com port for a UPS. (XP would) You will need to get a UPS that uses USB. (been there done that grrrr.) Michael Not necessarily true. My Vista 64 installation recognizes my APC Smart-UPS 1400, which uses a serial port, via the APC software just fine. |
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Install UPS (uninterruptable power supply) in Vista
"Michael" wrote in message ... Just as a point of curiosity does your UPS show up in Device Manager? (Mine is labeled 'batteries). It does not show up in device manager. The APC software installs a driver to communicate with the UPS. On XP the first thing the driver installation did was to disable XP's built-in UPS feature. I don't remember if that happened on Vista but I suspect that it did. |
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Install UPS (uninterruptable power supply) in Vista
On Aug 4, 7:42 pm, AlecR wrote:
Has anyone tried one of those cables that coverts serial to usb. If this is plugged into a USB port, would Vista recognise the UPS as being connected to USB? UPS uses serial port status lines such as Clear to Send and Carrier Detect to send signals to the computer. UPS is told to shutdown using Data Terminal Ready status line. How are these handshake signals carried on a USB port? Obviously if not, then USB port on Vista could not see those handshaking signals. To understand why USB converter does nothing useful, one would understand simple serial port functions and how USB works. |
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Install UPS (uninterruptable power supply) in Vista
Just because this is one of the first things that pops up in Google, here is
the solution: Download for your version of Windows hehttp://www.apcc.com/tools/download/s...25&swfam=12 5 It supports Comm on Vista. This version of PowerChute is only to be used on 1 computer FYI. |
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Install UPS (uninterruptable power supply) in Vista
I had a similar problem, except my UPS (APC v/s 1000) was too old and not
supported by Powerchute. I ended up writing my own .net service that polls COM1. When the UPS reports low battery, I do a 5-seconds forced shutdown of Vista and tell the UPS to go into soft shutdown mode. I found the command set he http://www.networkupstools.org/protocols/apcsmart.html especially command "Q", as it does not asynchronously report low battery (it's that old!). |
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Install UPS (uninterruptable power supply) in Vista
This is the agent only. You still need the Bus Ed Server, which requires a
purchase. I have not found a free piece of software that will support a serial APC UPS on Vista/Windows7. "Brandon M. Lee" wrote: Just because this is one of the first things that pops up in Google, here is the solution: Download for your version of Windows hehttp://www.apcc.com/tools/download/s...25&swfam=12 5 It supports Comm on Vista. This version of PowerChute is only to be used on 1 computer FYI. |
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