Strange UPS behavior

[ZephyrQ <ZephyrQ@att.net>]

	For the past few months, my UPS has 'blinked out' on me.  The rest of
the power in the house was fine, but the items plugged into the UPS have
tripped, causing the usual confusion and 20+ minute boot up sequence (12
partitions, 90+ Gigs of hda/b including manually running fsck on my /var
partition).

	Can anyone help me figure out whether to buy a new UPS or not?  This
problem is fairly recent as I have had the UPS for about 3 years.  

	Also, my XFree86 (ver. 4.2.1) acts strange after these 'episodes'. 
When I 'startx' after the above sequence, the computer locks up--causing
another manual hardboot and the above (lather, rinse, repeat).  This
includes re-running xf86config, restoring previous config files, etc.  

	The only way it *does* work is if I let the machine sit 24+ hours. 
Then everything is peachy.

	What is going on?  And why do I have to *always* fix /var manually?

	--running Woody 3.0 (not the latest...slow connection and all).


	Thanx.