On 6/26/2014 8:17 AM, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:36:02 -0400, Al Drake wrote:
On 6/25/2014 5:24 PM, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:20:41 -0700, Charles Lindbergh
wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:57:07 -0400, Al Drake wrote:
On 6/25/2014 4:18 PM, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:18:00 -0400, Al Drake wrote:
1. I tried to look this over, but the online documentation is somewhat peculiar.
I see the USB ports have an ALWAYS ON power feature for charging gadgets such as
cell phones. I wonder if this could be causing a conflict with the UPS? Is
there a way to turn this off in the bios?
2. I was also wondering, if you download a Linux distro, such as Mint and run it
from a USB stick or DVD, it would be interesting to know if the Linux OS sees
the UPS. If not, then the problem probably is not with your Windows
installation.
3. You indicated you have UPS on your other machines, have you tried a different
UPS on this machine?
4. I vaguely remember that APC would use special USB cables. Are you using the
cable that came with the UPS?
5. Have you looked at the USB section of your device manager? Does it show an
unrecognized device?
I will try to change the USB configuration and see what happens. I
could try a mobo forum and see what others know.
I've never done anything with Linux so it's never to late I guess. I
have tried other UPS units. There are 2 sitting besides each other so
it's easy to swap the cables. I have used them all previously on many
computers and have had them quite some time. Actually they are now
discontinued they're so old. I've replaced the batteries regularly and
never had a need to get rid of them(3). I do have a newer unit I could
move to that location but I had no reason to do so. I can't see any UPS
devices being all that complicated. I assumed it was my Win7 install or
the board. I am using the provided cables as I know of no other way to
use these units.
There is a "unrecognized" device showing that appears when I plug in
the UPS. It's situated above 2 "USB Composite Device" references and
below "Intel(R) N10/ICH7 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 27CC".
As I couldn't find the documentation for your bios USB settings, I would really
like to know what those options are.
Your device failed enumeration which can be due to a number of things.
The first thing I would do, in device manger with the unrecognized device, right
click and select "update driver software" then select search automatically for
updated software. Make sure the machine is connected to the Internet. You
might get lucky.
By the way, have you installed the latest version of Powerchute on the computer?
Is there driver software for your UPS available for download?
Well, I have just made the decision to dump this board and purchase
another. On the shelf it goes. No AHCI so SSD suffers and limited
features with very basic BIOS. The only thing I like is the DDR3
supporting 8Gigs. I wanted it for the 775 CPUs I have but now it's on to
something much better.
Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H LGA 1150 Z97 with Killer E2200 and Intel Gaming
Networking SATA Express M.2 SSD ATX Motherboard $180 Amazon
Crucial Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 32GB Kit (8GBx4) DDR3-1600 1.35V
UDIMM 240-Pin Memory Modules BLT4C8G3D1608ET3LX0 $319
Intel Core i7-4790 Processor - BX80646I7479 $309.
Now I have to decide what PSU to use and I'm off and running. Probably
build this beast next week while on Vaca.
I need this like another hole in my head. 
So, we are giving up on the UPS for the time being? That is a shame.
By the way, what is your primary use for such a machine? Is it gaming?
I don't play games. I haven't since I had one of the first Atari game
consoles with Space Invaders and Pac Man. Then I met my wife in '74 and
we played different games together. Now I don't even use that old joy
stick any more.
This new build will have SoldWorks Premium 2014 and SolidCAM 2013
installed.
Ahh, those should be pretty zippy on the new hardware.
I am now using my ASUS G73SW laptop but the graphics card is rather
low end(GeForce GTX 460M) and it's only SATA2. It does run and Intel
Core i7-2360QM CPU @ 2.00GHz 2001 Mhz 4 cores. It's maxed out at 8Gigs
so this new build will show improvement.