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Johnny Cool
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Post Count: 8621 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am having problems with my APC UPS. It is flashing red AND green light with a horrible sound! If I do not post today (or even a day or too after that) you will know that means I am trying to get my UPS hot-swapped by American Power Conversion. I may even go to the local Office Max and see if they have a UPS capable of running my old, yet trusty i7 870 and the monitor. If I am able to get one later (the UPS), when, I do not know), will someone please tell me what to do with my work-units in case of how long it will take me to get a new UPS.
----------------------------------------Here at WCG, some veteran cruncher replied to another in some other thread here about 'deleting' some work units which have not started yet. Yes, delete. Not abort or whatever. After all these years, confusing threads like that. Geez ... Anyway, will anyone give me advice concerning that work unit issue. This UPS has served me 5-7 years so I cannot complain. Must go now. I wonder if I could go without a UPS for a couple days. Sounds foolish I know. The Monster Cable surge suppressor was expensive in the day (used for Home Theater systems). Laast thing, if the red and black lights and noise stop, should I try to onlly run 2 CPU's instead of four? Otr not crunch *until* I get a new UPS??? Got to run while this UPS is working!!!!!!!!! If I have not made myself clear, I am in a hurry because of this problem!! Later, I hope! ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by Johnny Cool at Apr 13, 2014 2:47:41 PM] |
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Zephyrspark
Advanced Cruncher United States Joined: Oct 20, 2013 Post Count: 102 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Heya,
----------------------------------------The only reason for deleting a workunit is if you think you will not finish them before the deadline. Work units are typically assigned to multiple users for redundancy checking, Im not sure if they (IBM) are notified when you delete a unit or not. Although if you do not return before the deadline i know they do "reseed" and send out another copy. They might reduce the amount of files they send that machine in advance until a certain "trust' level has been restored. I do not know much about UPS myself however. Most of my machines do not merit having one, as a power down isnt as detrimental to me as it would be to someone else. Blinking Green might be reaching end of lifecycle http://www.fixya.com/support/t7742949-es_350_blinking_red_green I also found this searchign some forums for you """" Here's an APC ES 500 that has five lights. Bad battery is continuoius short beeps with red replace battery light. Overload is continuous tone with red overload light. PDF from APC: [www.apcmedia.com] All my APC XS 1000 (Ihave 28 of them) ( 4 lights) Continuous tone = overload Beeping: on battery . four beeps avery thirty seconds / beeps faster as battery depletes Chirping : failed battery test - replace battery """" What kind of setup do you have going? Not just WCG crunching im assuming, if its that important it must stay online all the time. And a side question unrelated to troubleshooting. Is there any chance you could show us off a pic or two of your rig setups?  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Zephyrspark at Apr 14, 2014 1:16:13 PM] |
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Johnny Cool
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Post Count: 8621 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Heya, The only reason for deleting a workunit is if you think you will not finish them before the deadline. Work units are typically assigned to multiple users for redundancy checking, Im not sure if they (IBM) are notified when you delete a unit or not. Although if you do not return before the deadline i know they do "reseed" and send out another copy. They might reduce the amount of files they send that machine in advance until a certain "trust' level has been restored. I do not know much about UPS myself however. Most of my machines do not merit having one, as a power down isnt as detrimental to me as it would be to someone else. Blinking Green might be reaching end of lifecycle http://www.fixya.com/support/t7742949-es_350_blinking_red_green I also found this searchign some forums for you """" Here's an APC ES 500 that has five lights. Bad battery is continuoius short beeps with red replace battery light. Overload is continuous tone with red overload light. PDF from APC: [www.apcmedia.com] All my APC XS 1000 (Ihave 28 of them) ( 4 lights) Continuous tone = overload Beeping: on battery . four beeps avery thirty seconds / beeps faster as battery depletes Chirping : failed battery test - replace battery """" What kind of setup do you have going? Not just WCG crunching im assuming, if its that important it must stay online all the time. And a side question unrelated to troubleshooting. Is there any chance you could show us off a pic or two of your rig setups? Don't have time to answer appropriately. Again, that word 'delete'; not abort or any other word. What exactly did you mean? I'm an independent corporate recruiter in the IT/Software Development/Security/ Large Enterprise segment. That is my specialty. Think "ECM' kind of recruiting. We dot our I's and cross our T's to the point of .... being 'good' Headhunters; that is what the business world and Fortune 500 companies calls us. That fiels has been horriblw for many of us these past several years. I'll explain later when I a have the time. I have copied your replay to read it later. Last evening, I went to Amazon.com to purchase a APC BE750G Power Saving Battery Back-UPS Sold by: Amazon.com LLC. APC has banker's hours. I guess only huge commercial accounts have a phone number to call them (I am very sure they do). Also, my browser warned me that their certificate did not jive as well! Yikes! I will call them later to see if I can get a new battery for the one APC I have currently. Gotta run. This is now my only compter and I must be able to have it running properly. No way would I run this without a ups. My system: Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield 2.8GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor Heatsink/Fan: XIGMATEK Dark Knight-S1283V Motherboard: Asus P7P55D Monitor: HP 25 inch Diagonal LCD Monitor Memory: 2x 4GB Kingston HyperX AMD Radeon HD 7850 Series - 256-bit (2048 MB) Hard Drives: 2 Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB Sound: Onboard Soundmax Audio Network: Onboard Gigabit Ethernet Powersupply: Corsair 650 Watt Modular Optical: Lite-On 22x SATA DVD Burner Optical 2: Lite-On 22x SATA DVD Burner LIAN LI PC-7B plus II Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case Software: Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit I'll try a tad later with the stats and read what you meant with 'delete'. Thx! PS: I pretty much know the diagnostic lights/sounds. This was weird, it's ok foe right now. |
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RaymondFO
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 30, 2004 Post Count: 561 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Whenever you "delete" a work unit, WCG is notified and the correct term is "abort." You can abort any work unit for any reason, however some of the more common reasons to abort work units include such as issues: if you are not able to complete the task by the deadline; you believe the task created is invalid based upon a WCG tech forum posting; the work unit is "hanging"; or the task(s) are creating problems for your computer.
----------------------------------------JC, the APC BE750G unit should be okfor your computer providing you are not attaching the unit to a "dirty line", or attaching multiple computers. I prefer higher priced APC units (1300+ watts) because of load issues and one electrical line I have is dirty that has "taken out" about three different less expensive APC units, except for the one now attached. JC, if you need any further information or clarification, please PM me. Ray [Edit 1 times, last edit by RaymondFO at Apr 14, 2014 3:37:45 PM] |
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Johnny Cool
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Post Count: 8621 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Ray, a dirty line? There are two wall plugs (actually two outlets encased with the common usual plastic dohicky frame. The UPS is plugged into one and my Monster Computer PowerCenter PC 800 HP, Clean Power,1665 Joules, 50K CEG in the other plug. Not much is plugged into that Monster PowerCenter.
----------------------------------------I have a opthamologist appointment early tomorrow. Stuff like that and more is really testing me to no end. Long story.  |
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RaymondFO
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 30, 2004 Post Count: 561 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Ray, a dirty line? .... A dirty electrical line (a/k/a "dirty electricity" or "dirty power") is generally defined as a surge, a sag, a spike, a transient, a fluctuation, an interruption, or noise, "dirty power" is some type of abnormality in the electricity that runs your house or facility (What causes "Dirty" Power?). In my case, very sharp and sudden electrical current spikes and/or sharp decreases in current. I no longer use that line as I believe it also "terminated" at least one maybe two computers as well. I used to hear my APC unit start beeping or hear a clicking nose until I changed electrical lines. I have not had any issues since I changed electrical lines. [Edit 1 times, last edit by RaymondFO at Apr 15, 2014 1:46:09 PM] |
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Johnny Cool
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Post Count: 8621 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Ray, a dirty line? .... A dirty electrical line (a/k/a "dirty electricity" or "dirty power") is generally defined as a surge, a sag, a spike, a transient, a fluctuation, an interruption, or noise, "dirty power" is some type of abnormality in the electricity that runs your house or facility (What causes "Dirty" Power?). In my case, very sharp and sudden electrical current spikes and/or sharp decreases in current. I no longer use that line as I believe it also "terminated" at least one maybe two computers as well. I used to hear my APC unit start beeping or hear a clicking nose until I changed electrical lines. I have not had any issues since I changed electrical lines. My old APC Back-UPS ES USB 750VA has lasted me since Oct 2005. Same outlet. Dirty line not a problem here. What I failed to mention is that when this happened Sunday evening, we had a prolific "Spring Storm' that had rain and snow. Worse, were the greater than 30 (easily) MPG wind gusts. Wind speed was greater than 20 MPH. This is the first time I saw and heard the quick beeps and both blinking red and green lights. If anything, possibly a strong indicator that the UPS had roughly 2 weeks before a total fail (that from many posts of folks who had the same issue). Anyway, my APC Back-UPS ES USB 750VA (I am guessing it will not perform as well my older UPS. The cost of the battery alone for my older one is $79.95. I did not want to spend the extra money until I take care of a couple things that are *far* more important. I guess I will seen soon. I rather dislike posting personal issues on any public board; anywhere. I hope that all of our Team Mates continue to keep on crunching away. The ophthalmologist appointment this early morning has left my eyes *really blurry*. I hope that all will bear with me this month (whatever). My new backup has been delivered and I am not even going to replace my older one yet. My eyes are not up to that. I think they would like a nice Colorado-brewed ale.  Thanks for the post, Ray! |
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Zephyrspark
Advanced Cruncher United States Joined: Oct 20, 2013 Post Count: 102 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Awesome Build Johnny, No wonder my 3 devices are straining to keep up with you.
----------------------------------------Ill have to gather up and post the specs sometime. Ive been considering building a small form factor with a crunching cpu perhaps with a slot for a gpu or two, but ill have to get more feedback on it before going that way :3 |
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Johnny Cool
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Awesome Build Johnny, No wonder my 3 devices are straining to keep up with you. Ill have to gather up and post the specs sometime. Ive been considering building a small form factor with a crunching cpu perhaps with a slot for a gpu or two, but ill have to get more feedback on it before going that way :3 Thanks, Z! Gotta run now. And we do have stats. Aloha, Co-Captains (fellow Team Mates)!  anhhai, 1.475 Milion Results Returned!! That is the 65th Rank at the WCG (same rank as your points as well) !! Wow ... Killer Tomato, 10 Million Boinc Credit! Congrats! Major Congratulations to: anhhai, for exceeding 76.125 (actually 76.138) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 533.584 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 498 ! Years and 348 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 1,4475,668 Results Returned. Hall of Fame stats no doubt! And your Badges ...   RaymondFO, for exceeding 52.975 (any hour now) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 370.711 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 146 ! Years and 249 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 765,375 ! Results Returned. Talk about 'out of this world' stats! And your Badges ...   Killer Tomato, for exceeding 10 Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 70.003 ! Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 61 Years and 143 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 140,575 ! Results Returned. 'Hall of Fame' stats indeed! And your Badges ...   Rudi the Red, for exceeding 4.9 (actually 4.917) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 35.277 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 22 Years and 326 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 74.480 ! Results Returned. What a great shot! And your Badges ...   Mortons, for exceeding 3.375 (actually 3.310) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 23.619 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 14 Years and 206 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 33,941 ! Results Returned. Great serve! And your Badges ...   llucilluc, for exceeding 3.180 (actually 3.120) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 22.361 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 21 Years and 238 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 36,602 ! Results Returned. What an ace you serve! And your Badges ...  Cmdrd, for exceeding 2.675(actually 2.682) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 18.748 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 10 Years and 177 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 31,764 ! Results Returned. And your Badges ...  sevenveils, for exceeding 438,000 Credit (Boinc points). That is over 3.067 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 2 Years and 331 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 5,822 ! Results Returned. What a great swing! And your Badges ...   Zephyrspark, for exceeding 180,000 (any hour now) Credit (Boinc points). That is over 1.255 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 1 Year and 23 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 1,905 (already!) Results Returned. Great backhand shot! And your Badges ...    Other Team Mates to pass milestones soon. 4-15-2014 Team Stats: Total Run Time (Rank) 1527:203:16:18:26 (#48) Points Generated (Rank) 1,986,124,850 (#46) Results Returned (Rank) 4,358,080 (#43) Daily Team Stats from last refresh: Total Run Time --- Points Generated --- Results Returned 0:242:14:42:57 --- 755,134 --- 1,314 The following Free-DC stats are mostly sorted by "Yesterday"; sometimes "Today" (which updates later). All The Pie Eaters  To view our April Team Challenges, please take a look here: Our Team Challenges Looking for a cure. Join our International Team! Andrax: a term that means a total annihilation of a disease. Free-DC Stats  |
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Johnny Cool
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Post Count: 8621 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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That APC UPS was a very bad decision due to stupid "Order at once" at Amazom.com.
----------------------------------------Amazon.com has a very deceptive "Customer Reviews" in that 3 different models of APC UPS systems were all listed in the model number that I purchased (and wasted even more money on a two day delivery: $82.99 Sold by Amazon.com LLC Shipping and Handling: $23.86 ----------- Bad reviews about several issues. Constant beep sounds when even the slightest things happen (yes, I know I could install that CD and control that, yet it is a waste of cpu resources I think). That and some comments about One Comment: In reading the reviews and user comments I found one thing in common. Apparently, according to the various vendors, active-PFC PSUs do not work with simulated sinewave outputs when the UPS is on battery. One must have one of the more expensive UPS models with pure sinewave output. Geez, how dumb can I get?  Oh well, can't return it because Amazon says it is a 'hazard'. I might use it for the LCD TV I guess. Or a toaster.   Bonjour, Co-Captains (fellow Team Mates)! Major Congratulations to: WildWilber, for exceeding 23.875 (any hour now) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 167.358 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 98 ! Years and 151 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 334,455 ! Results Returned. 'Hall of Fame' stats, Sir WildWilber! And your Badges ...   ethelred1, for exceeding 13.6 (actually 13.606) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 95.566 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 81 ! Years and 124 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 183,887 ! Results Returned. Talk about 'Hall of Fame' stats! And your Badges ...   Dick_Dastardly, for exceeding 12.575 (actually 12.579) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 91.703 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 118 ! Years and 38 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 174,546 ! Results Returned. 'Hall of Fame' no doubt! And your Badges ...   JC, for exceeding 6.750 (any hour now) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 47.406 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 37Years and 226 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 83,359 Results Returned. And your Badges ...  Other Team Mates to pass milestones soon. 4-16-2014 Team Stats: Total Run Time (Rank) 1531:344:17:43:13 (#48) Points Generated (Rank) 1,991,290,585 (#46) Results Returned (Rank) 4,366,458 (#43) Daily Team Stats from last refresh: Total Run Time --- Points Generated --- Results Returned 0:288:17:10:33 --- 874,374 --- 1,534 The following Free-DC stats are mostly sorted by "Yesterday"; sometimes "Today" (which updates later). All The Pie Eaters  To view our April Team Challenges, please take a look here: Our Team Challenges Looking for a cure. Join our International Team! Andrax: a term that means a total annihilation of a disease. Free-DC Stats |
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