Well about the stabilizer, its actually a manual stabilizer not the automatic ones. When the voltage drops my UPS starts beeping as though the power had gone off and many a time I had to switch off the PC. I solved the problem by using the stabilizer , it has a switch for selecting the voltage states with a voltmeter for displaying the voltage and when I do select a higher voltage the beeping stops. Thats why I use it. Is it a proper way to handle the power situation?
Regards Binny On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:04 PM, BINNY THOMAS <[email protected]> wrote: > Well i am grateful to everyone for taking this post seriously. I didnt > suspect Linux either and I intend to believe it was a faulty SMPS. But > after the incident I am afraid to use the sleep mode. The reason I am > taking this seriously is that recently a week ago I decided to give the > 'Turn off Monitor' a try in KDE. The description says that selecting the > option will completely power off the electron gun after the specified idle > time and thus bringing power consumption to a minimum. I specified the time > as 2 MINS and my monitor did just that. Of course I had to turn on the > monitor two or three times in an hour to check the status of the PC ( I use > my pc to download files and play music- we dont need to keep on the monitor > all the time do we?).I was completely satisfied with the result, but on the > next day my monitor refused to switch on, the technician said that some > parts may have failed due to voltage fluctuations or power anomalies. This > doesnt seem like coincidence does it? > Maybe the frequent on and off cycles had damaged the monitor? I advocate > Linux to everyone I talk to so I better be aware of the problem. > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:35 PM, nishandh M <[email protected]> wrote: > >> i noticed this, in compaq laptop model v5000TU, with an ubuntu 7.04, when >> u shut down, the Hard disk is in use untill the last micro second (untill >> the system LED is off), and the kind of clinking sound is heared from the >> HDD area, the same u hear when u force an abrupt powerroff.But in the newer >> version ubuntu-8.04, the HDD usage indicator goes off a little befor the >> system LED goes off.and its a very silent one.the sound form the cpu fan was >> also irregular druing shutdown in earlier case. >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
