No UPS signal causes immediate shutdown on reboot

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Hugh

I have got into a situation with an XP Home machine where
there is no signal being received from the UPS and so the
computer immediately shuts down on rebooting. I cannot
get far enough to disable this behaviour. It is not an
option to actually provide a signal from the UPS
according to the settings XP is configured to check for.

How do I prevent this shutting down?

Thanks
 
You can disable the UPS Service. Click Start-Run-Type services.msc and
click OK. Then disable the UPS service. I would suggest installing or
reinstalling whatever software came with the UPS. My APC UPS shows up
as a battery backup and makes my desktop run just like a laptop with
limited battery when it is running on just battery. If yours does not
do this, you may not have it configured correctly or you may want to try
a better UPS :)
 
Thanks for the suggestion - the problem with this is that
I can never get that far because the computer starts to
close down 10 seconds after rebooting :((

If I reboot (say to DOS) from a floppy or a CD is there
something I can tweak to at least stop the immediate
shutdown?

Thanks

Hugh
 
Brilliant - I will try that when I get home - my son will
be in your eternal debt with gratitude (and so will I) if
this works!!
 
Yay - it worked!! Now we have to live with eternal debt!!
Oh - we already were...:)

Thanks everyone for your help
 
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