Some APC UPSes can be told not to beep. I don't know which ones they are, but they're the ones that have programmable internal EEPROMs.

Check out the Unix-based apcupsd documentation. It's available for Win32 as well, so you might be able to at least configure the beepstate, then get rid of the apcupsd package.
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