Perhaps this should be posted somewhere else...and perhaps it is only incidental to Kubuntu...but I thought I would ask anyway, since I've gotten so much help at Kubuntu Forums in the past.
I'm running Kubuntu 6.06 on a Pentium 4 computer.
I have frequent power outages...those pesky ones that last only 1-5 seconds but which bring down my computer. I would like to install a UPS to bridge those short power outages.
My problem...if there is a problem at all...is that all the UPSs I've seen have the three-prong grounded plug and my house has only the two-prong sockets. I once tried to install a USED UPS using an adapter plug and it wouldn't even turn on. It was an APC with battery and power-down circuitry. I don't know if it was a faulty UPS or if it wouldn't power up because of the lack of adequate grounding.
Since my home is at least 50 years old I may be able to use the power sockets if I attach the ground wire to the screw that holds the faceplate of the socket; I think that the older power sockets used metal boxes and that would serve to ground the UPS.
Has anyone been successful in using UPSs in this manner? I don't want to purchase one until I'm sure that it will work.
I'm running Kubuntu 6.06 on a Pentium 4 computer.
I have frequent power outages...those pesky ones that last only 1-5 seconds but which bring down my computer. I would like to install a UPS to bridge those short power outages.
My problem...if there is a problem at all...is that all the UPSs I've seen have the three-prong grounded plug and my house has only the two-prong sockets. I once tried to install a USED UPS using an adapter plug and it wouldn't even turn on. It was an APC with battery and power-down circuitry. I don't know if it was a faulty UPS or if it wouldn't power up because of the lack of adequate grounding.
Since my home is at least 50 years old I may be able to use the power sockets if I attach the ground wire to the screw that holds the faceplate of the socket; I think that the older power sockets used metal boxes and that would serve to ground the UPS.
Has anyone been successful in using UPSs in this manner? I don't want to purchase one until I'm sure that it will work.
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