Widows 7 UPS

**Airportwo** · 19-01-2010, 05:59 PM

Anybody point me in the right direction for guide to installing UPS, cant see any way of setting up?

**Fondles** · 19-01-2010, 06:13 PM

What UPS do you have?
how does it connect to the PC?
Did the UPS come with software?

**Marmite the Dog** · 19-01-2010, 11:39 PM

I was going to correct the title of the thread, but I've still got no idea what the hell he's after.

**melvbot** · 19-01-2010, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I was going to correct the title of the thread, but I've still got no idea what the hell he's after.

Hooking up an Uninterruptable Power Supply on some backwards Windows operating system by the sounds of it

**daveboy** · 20-01-2010, 01:54 AM

Originally Posted by Airportwo

Anybody point me in the right direction for guide to installing UPS, cant see any way of setting up?

Plug in the UPS then plug in your pc to the UPS job done.

**Airportwo** · 20-01-2010, 02:07 AM

Originally Posted by daveboy

Originally Posted by Airportwo

Anybody point me in the right direction for guide to installing UPS, cant see any way of setting up?

Plug in the UPS then plug in your pc to the UPS job done.

I did manage to figure that bit out

Only realised today when we had a power cut that windows 7 doesn't recognise it, XP you had to go into power settings to set up, 7 doesn't have this. UPS make is "Bright" don't believe it came with a disc, its a couple of years old.

**daveboy** · 20-01-2010, 02:24 AM

Sounds like its not windows 7 compliant.

http://www.cyberpowersystems.com/abo...indows-7-.html

**dirtydog** · 20-01-2010, 02:43 AM

I don't know how many versions of windows and linux I have installed in the past but I have never had to do anything with my UPS, just plug the pc into it and it works, never bothered with windows 7 though.

**Marmite the Dog** · 20-01-2010, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

I don't know how many versions of windows and linux I have installed in the past but I have never had to do anything with my UPS, just plug the pc into it and it works

Same with mine.

**gusG** · 20-01-2010, 12:27 PM

Try, Control Panel>All contol panel items> Power options
and have a look in there, that's where mine is.

**Airportwo** · 20-01-2010, 02:15 PM

^ That's my problem, that's where mine isn't ! Agree that with older versions is just a case of plugging in, surprised when it didn't work, nice backward step !

**Fondles** · 20-01-2010, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by Airportwo

UPS make is "Bright" don't believe it came with a disc, its a couple of years old.

Exaxctly how old is it, the only reference on google for a 'Bright UPS' is something that was discontinued in 1995.
If this is the case the reason it may not be showing in win7 is because win7 does not have the driver for it, hence you will need the disc.

**Airportwo** · 20-01-2010, 04:00 PM

I now know more about UPS than I ever wanted too!
"Bright" appears to be a TM of IntelliPower, Inc (Military UPS, Industrial UPS, Commercial UPS - On Line Uninterruptible Power Systems) the model I have is not mentioned on their website, they seem to be quite high end, in fact the one I have has no model number at all!
I suspect i have a China copy, although it worked fine with XP will not work with Win 7...........

**blackgang** · 20-01-2010, 05:06 PM

Do you mean that when you plug your computer into your UPS the computer will not turn on and work??

I had a UPS made in Thailand a few years ago, it has software, but I never installed it and the UPS worked for a couple years and then shit the bed and went tits up.

**Airportwo** · 20-01-2010, 08:28 PM

No, starts up a usual, but when it should work e.g. go to battery power when power fails, nothing happens with it...........

**blackgang** · 20-01-2010, 08:33 PM

Sounds like a faulty battery to me, it should switch to the inverter when it loses power from grid.
If it is putting out no power it damn sure couldn't get instructions from software to switch it from the PC.

**Fondles** · 20-01-2010, 08:57 PM

Yup, sounds like dead battery to me as well.

**dirtydog** · 20-01-2010, 10:23 PM

Maybe plug a desk lamp into your ups and then pull the plug on the ups?

**Airportwo** · 20-01-2010, 11:40 PM

Well done and thanks chaps,

that indeed is the problem! (hindsight makes me think this would have probably been the next thing I would have checked!)

Needless to say I am both bloody well shocked and disgusted! You would think that Microsoft would at least issue a warning that Windows 7 destroys batteries! but no, they leave it to Joe public, the little man in the street, working every hour God sends to find out himself through trial and error!
The bloody thing worked perfectly under XP for years!
Suing the !astards springs to mind, but I'm pretty dam smart and know it would take years and years before I eventually got a court to find in my favour and award me substantial damages!
How many more lost souls are out there now struggling with the same problem?

Think I will just sleep on it for now - again thanks, your help much appreciated in what have been pretty dam trying times..............

**Marmite the Dog** · 20-01-2010, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by Airportwo

The bloody thing worked perfectly under XP for years!

The batteries only normally last for a couple of years.

**Airportwo** · 21-01-2010, 02:21 AM

^ Thanks for pointing that out MTD, though I have to say I, along with possibly 95% of the worlds population did realise that - I chose denial..........

**blackgang** · 21-01-2010, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by Airportwo

Needless to say I am both bloody well shocked and disgusted! You would think that Microsoft would at least issue a warning that Windows 7 destroys batteries! but no, they leave it to Joe public, the little man in the street, working every hour God sends to find out himself through trial and error! The bloody thing worked perfectly under XP for years!

You had better quit smoking that shit,, it is starting to make your mind act funny with all these ideas.

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