I received a Belkin Universal UPS 800VA at Christmas. I connected it to an old Compaq Proliant 800 which I use as a home firewall/server. According to the pdf manual I downloaded for the computer, the power supply should be 240W. The UPS is advertised to handle up to 450W. There is no monitor attached to the computer, and the computer is the only device attached to a battery backed outlet. I installed the monitoring software on a laptop and connected it to the usb port. The software indicated that the UPS was charged to 91% and running at 20% load. I then tested the UPS and it caused the computer to reboot.
If I unplug the UPS, the power supply in the computer seems to switch on and off several times before it stabilizes. Naturally this causes the computer to reboot. Someone else in another thread experienced a similar problem with this UPS, but it was on a much larger system than I'm using.
thread525-513679 that other thread, it was apparent that his problem was that the UPS was overloaded, but that doesn't seem to make sense in my case. Is there some other problem that could be causing this? I will be returning this item to the store, but I'm not sure whether I should get a larger Belkin, or if I should just get a better brand, like maybe a 700VA APC. Any recommendations? Thanks.
If I unplug the UPS, the power supply in the computer seems to switch on and off several times before it stabilizes. Naturally this causes the computer to reboot. Someone else in another thread experienced a similar problem with this UPS, but it was on a much larger system than I'm using.
thread525-513679 that other thread, it was apparent that his problem was that the UPS was overloaded, but that doesn't seem to make sense in my case. Is there some other problem that could be causing this? I will be returning this item to the store, but I'm not sure whether I should get a larger Belkin, or if I should just get a better brand, like maybe a 700VA APC. Any recommendations? Thanks.