At 12:40 -0400 4/20/04, k s d wrote: >Hi all. I was given an old APC backup - 600SmartUp. I wasn't told >whether it worked or not - it doesn't. I'm assuming that the >internal battery is dead. Is the thing junk? >Thanks, >-kevin Kevin, unplug the UPS and remove the battery. Then take it to your local battery supply store (look in the yellow pages under "batteries") and get a new one. Near me (ok, about 20 miles away) are three battery stores, so I just go to the closest one. -- Sincerely, Dennis B. Swaney "Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is ... oh, never mind."