UPS and Power Option Properties

[Bob]

I've finally broke down a bought a real UPS with AVR. I live in an area
with the worst electrical service I've ever experienced: brown-outs,
outages, power surges (a power surge recently killed my washing
machine). I'm surprised my computers have lived this long. I unplug
them when there's a storm in the area.

Here's the problem: I installed the APC Powerchute utility and when I go
into Power Option Properties, everything looks just peachy. The pop-up
box for for "Setting for Home/Office desk power scheme" shows two
columns of data, "When computer is: Plugged in" and "Running on
batteries". I also get the "Alarm tab".

When I reboot, this disappears and I'm back to the regular "Power Option
Properties" (no power scheme for batteries). If I uninstall and
reinstall the APC Powerchute utilities, I get the correct "Power Option
Properties" (until I reboot).

What's going on here?

 

[Jerold Schulman]

I've finally broke down a bought a real UPS with AVR. I live in an area
with the worst electrical service I've ever experienced: brown-outs,
outages, power surges (a power surge recently killed my washing
machine). I'm surprised my computers have lived this long. I unplug
them when there's a storm in the area.

Here's the problem: I installed the APC Powerchute utility and when I go
into Power Option Properties, everything looks just peachy. The pop-up
box for for "Setting for Home/Office desk power scheme" shows two
columns of data, "When computer is: Plugged in" and "Running on
batteries". I also get the "Alarm tab".

When I reboot, this disappears and I'm back to the regular "Power Option
Properties" (no power scheme for batteries). If I uninstall and
reinstall the APC Powerchute utilities, I get the correct "Power Option
Properties" (until I reboot).

What's going on here?

Did you have Administrative privs when you installed and when you use Power
Options?


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Bob]

Did you have Administrative privs when you installed and when you use Power
Options?

Yes I do. I have a Phoenix AwardBios CMOS if that helps any.