I've had an APC Office 280 back up battery installed for about 2 years.
When I first installed XP, I just upgraded over Win98 (big mistake...)
Among a lot of other error messages, I received something about my UPS
having a problem, etc. after playing with the Win power settings About a
day later the battery in the UPS went to junk. I realize that there's only
a 2 year warranty on the battery on this thing but its real strange that
about a day after I was goofing around with the power settings for the UPS
in XP, it went toes up! I've since taken the UPS off of my system, ordered
a replacement and reformatted/clean installed XP. Could Windows possibly
have caused the UPS to go bad prematurely or was it just coincidence. Also,
do I need to do anything special when installing the replacement UPS?
Thanks!
DC