Storms force reboot...

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David Pinero

Here's a weird one. I bought myself one of those battery back up
units to keep my PC humming during brownouts. I live in Tampa and the
lightning storms cause frequent brownouts and other electrical
anomalies, so I wanted to put a halt to my PC rebooting every summer
afternoon. It just isn't healthy.

Hence, I bought an APC CS 350 [see link below] and set it up to keep
the PC and monitor running. It works generally well. For example, if
I unplug everything from the wall, the APC beeps and the PC keeps on
running. Presumably it will do so until the battery runs out.
However, without fail, after electrical storms I return home to find
my PC has rebooted anyway. At first I thought the problem was with
the special monitoring software they include with the APC. I
understand such software tends to be generally buggy anyway and not
really required to garner the primary benefit of the APC unit which is
to keep things humming. Therefore I uninstalled it and removed the
network communication cable that connects the PC and the APC. To my
shock (heh-heh, pardon the pun), I discovered that the PC *still*
reboots during storms. The event log produces the following entry:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Save Dump
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 8/16/2003
Time: 6:58:13 PM
User: N/A
Computer: NA
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was:
0x000000d1 (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xbfecf505). Microsoft
Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in:
C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini081603-02.dmp.

To be quite honest, I don't even think the PC rebooted this much
BEFORE the APC which means the APC is making things worse somehow in
terms of spontaneous rebooting. But I just can't understand how. I
could see if the APC unit didn't work in general, but it does.

Here's a link to the APC unit I have:
http://www.pcconnection.com/scripts/productdetail.asp?product_id=242464

Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks!

Dave
 
From: David Pinero (e-mail address removed)
Date: 08/16/2003 9:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <[email protected]>


Here's a weird one. I bought myself one of those battery back up
units to keep my PC humming during brownouts. I live in Tampa and the
lightning storms cause frequent brownouts and other electrical
anomalies, so I wanted to put a halt to my PC rebooting every summer
afternoon. It just isn't healthy.

Hence, I bought an APC CS 350 [see link below] and set it up to keep
the PC and monitor running. It works generally well. For example, if
I unplug everything from the wall, the APC beeps and the PC keeps on
running. Presumably it will do so until the battery runs out.
However, without fail, after electrical storms I return home to find
my PC has rebooted anyway. At first I thought the problem was with
the special monitoring software they include with the APC. I
understand such software tends to be generally buggy anyway and not
really required to garner the primary benefit of the APC unit which is
to keep things humming. Therefore I uninstalled it and removed the
network communication cable that connects the PC and the APC. To my
shock (heh-heh, pardon the pun), I discovered that the PC *still*
reboots during storms. The event log produces the following entry:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Save Dump
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 8/16/2003
Time: 6:58:13 PM
User: N/A
Computer: NA
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was:
0x000000d1 (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xbfecf505). Microsoft
Windows 2000 [v15.2195]. A dump was saved in:
C:\WINNT\Minidump\Mini081603-02.dmp.

To be quite honest, I don't even think the PC rebooted this much
BEFORE the APC which means the APC is making things worse somehow in
terms of spontaneous rebooting. But I just can't understand how. I
could see if the APC unit didn't work in general, but it does.

Here's a link to the APC unit I have:
http://www.pcconnection.com/scripts/productdetail.asp?product_id=242464

Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks!

Dave
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The following scenario could be a possibility:
1. Your power goes out, and the UPS takes over.
2. The UPS battery runs down, and your PC powers down (with or without the help
of the UPS).
3. Power is restored, and there's a setting in your PC's BIOS that tells it to
power up & boot when power is restored. (Mine has a setting like that, but I
set it to 'disabled')
 
I always set my UPS software to just power down the computer, as most don't
last more than a few minutes anyway and outages can go for much longer. Try
tothink of it as more of safe shutdown devicein an emergency and less of a
back-up power generator. They jsut don't have what it takes to keep the
machine going very long.
 
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