On Tue January 30 2007, Tim wrote:
Watching this thread, and the woes that a friend has gone through
with a
KVM on his Windows boxes, I begin to wonder if the problem is down to a
lack of power to run the devices. Perhaps some PCs are a bit lacking in
what they'll supply out their ports, and the KVMs are a bit demanding.
Certainly some PCs won't do a wake up from the keyboard, for power
reasons (some have jumpers to change power to the port, for that reason,
some don't).
I wondered about that for different reasons - the one that was recommended to
me to replace the Belkin I had, which was powered by a wall wart, was only
powered by the USB bus. It's a little tiny IOGear shaped like a sort of
triangle, with four cable sets hard-molded into the back of it. That little
tiny KVM has lived in back of my monitors for the better part of three years
now and I've never had a problem with - it's had a lot of different hardware
and operating systems thrown at it, and it always works - the other issue I
used to have with my older Belkin was poor hi-rez video performance - I run
most of my stuff at 1600X1200 and that was a big deal - there was video
distortion that was directly related to the rez, and I could cure it by down
rezzing my graphic card settings. The little IOGear is rated at higher rez
than what I use, and I've put my laptop on it, which runs at 1920X1200, and
it didn't falter.
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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA