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Elzo Valugi
Asked: 2013-04-13 03:55:41 +0800 CST

UPS beeping on mouse scroll or other events

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I have this hardware problem, my UPS battery beeps a lot when using Ubuntu (not so much on windows), so I am thinking that it may be a interrupt problem or a power surge of some sort. The strange thing is that is happening even when I do a mouse scroll, or play a video on full screen or other strange seemingly unrelated events.

Any suggestions? I can post some configs if you think they can be useful.

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    CPU rates would jump during scroll but does this happen when you rotate the mousewheel wheel on something that doesn't scroll?

    If it doesn't it's probably a hardware issue with the PSU or the UPS not being able to deal with the CPU changing power states. It's probably a sign that one or both is faulty or just overloaded. Testing the second is easiest: unplug a load of stuff and test again.

    ... But if you still get beeps aside from CPU-intensive things, I've really no idea. Some sort of interrupt crossover but again, no idea how that could happen.

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