John,
Interesting, the Serial UPS that I tried had no drivers included with it,
the user interface depended on the native operating system drivers. (XP had
native serial and UPS drivers). My current USB UPS (say that five times
fast) is dependent on the native 'batteries' driver. Just as a point of
curiosity does your UPS show up in Device Manager? (Mine is labeled
'batteries).
When checking Microsoft knowledge bases they said Vista did not support
Serial.
Perhaps the OP should continue to try, starting at the manufactures site to
check for Vista drivers as well as user interface.
(CyberPower battery backup, Vista(32) Home Premium)
Michael
"John" <noaddress@noaddress.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Michael" <mexxwalraven@verson.net> wrote in message
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>> Vista will not use a com port for a UPS. (XP would)
>> You will need to get a UPS that uses USB.
>> (been there done that grrrr.)
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>> Michael
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> Not necessarily true.
> My Vista 64 installation recognizes my APC Smart-UPS 1400,
> which uses a serial port, via the APC software just fine.
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