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Forum discussion tagged with ups fault.
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    Question UPS with weak batteries smells like burnt

    When I entered my room today, all of it have a smell of burnt. After several hours, I found the cause of the smell is my Advice AIN1200-3, 1200VA, two batteries UPS which have weak batteries. Here is a picture of my UPS: What can cause the UPS to smell like burnt crisp?
  2. Kirito-kun

    Question UPS not working as intended, need urgent help

    My specs: i5-3570, H61, 4GB*2, RTX 2060, 550W Bronze+ CM PSU, 2 SSD, 2 HDD, RGB Keyboard and Mouse, Bluetooth and WIFI Adapter, 3 ARGB and 1 Non RGB Fans on case and Acer 22 inch IPS Monitor. I have a inverter at my place but due to frequent power cut in my area, I bought ENTER UPS E-U740...
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    Question UPS overloading ?

    Hello, I have an APC BX950GR/ 950VA UPS and when I start playing high demand games e.g. CP2077 the UPS battery light stays on and with a long beep. According to manual it is an overloading issue. I have connected my pc and one monitor. My pc has a 750Watt psu, i9-13900k, RTX 2070 and my monitor...
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    Question UPS turns off even when there is electricity

    I have a 1500VA offline ups that I've been using for a few years by now. I have changed batteries before and everything has gone well. My PC has been the same for close to 3 years by now and the issue has been happening only in the last month. The issue is: I will be using my PC (gaming or not)...
  5. Abexz

    [SOLVED] UPS keeps beeping whenever I play heavy games ?

    My pc psu is 650 watts and my UPS is 1200va (around 720 watts). Yet my ups starts to beep alot when im heavy gaming indicating that there's an overload. Is the ups faulty? It was previously plugged in for hours before i started the heavy gaming so it should be charged. I tend to unplug the ups...
  6. zZzRandzZz

    Question Weird system behavior after power outage

    Where I live power outages are very common and is a daily occurrence. This is why I use a UPS to protect my PC when this happens. This worked great and I had no issues Months ago my power went out but it was different this time. The monitor shut off but it was still getting electricity since...
  7. Spondon14

    Question UPS issues

    I bought two UPS's recently. 650 VA & 800 VA (Both Apollo, Line Interactive -written on box) . Now Im facing 2 issues 1. Im using 800Va on my pc. On the first day I was using it. As line interactive I started using it that day, didn’t charge it as i know line interactive ups's charge when...
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    My ups doesn't turn on in time.

    So my cyberpower 425w ups doesn't turn on in time when there's a power outage, my pc turns off and after a few seconds the ups kicks in and my pc tries to turn on again. This happened twice this day while I was in apex legends lobby. It worked when my pc was idling and I cut off power to the...
  9. gizeh21

    Question Forza 2000 t online

    I have a Forza 2000VA online UPS, the problem is that is always making a noise like fans were alaways at 100 %, after Forza sent me a New one the noise is still there and I dont know if that is normal ir something else is happening, Someone told me that UPS's shouldnt do that fan noise always...
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    Question APC 600VA ups is not turning on .What to do ?

    I am using BX600C-IN ups for past 4 months. Suddenly it isn't turning on .I have tried common troubleshooting steps but none of them working. It isn't turning on at all. Can anyone help me regarding this? When i'm connecting it to the main power supply i don't hear the transformer start tick sound.
  11. Shektron

    Question Weird UPS issue

    Don't know if this is the right place for this thread, there was no UPS section so I went with this category. So, I have a Microtek 650VA TP Pro 650+ UPS, and my system specs are on my profile. The problem is that, when the power is cut, the UPS works perfectly fine, right up until I try to...
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    Question Why Pc restarts in certain actions/Load?

    I'm running Rx 590 with thermaltake Smart modu 630W It's been 1year that i upgraded my gpu and psu. I don't thing I ever faced this kind of problem before. When I work with the scene in blender eevee with volumetric tiles size 2px and export 8k maps from substance painter with filter turned on...
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    Question UPS requirement query

    Can i put 400 watt load on a 600VA-360 watt line interactive UPS under mains power ? Since line interactive ups switches to battery only when mains power is not present . Actually my system draws peak 380 watts at max load .Most of the times it draws around 60-70% of the peak value .I want to...
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    Question UPS Randomly entering "Self Test"

    Hi all :) Have enjoyed helping many ppl on tech forums for years, but now it's time to ask you wonderful people for some help . . . I have a Titan 3K online UPS that is randomly going into 'Self Test' and beeping for no reason that I can find. It has been working wonderfully without fault for...