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Tarale    2710 Affected by 'Princess Bitch-Face Syndrome' ++++!! Persona non grata                    Since: 11-17-05 From: Adelaide, Australia Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| Ahhh, Birthday Presents. Kinda fun, until you suspect they are D.O.A. Warranty.
My mother purchased for me -- at my request -- a KVM switch. I currently have 1 Intel Mac Mini (Intel Core Duo 2.0ghz) and 1 Athlon XP 3000+ that I switch between depending on what I am doing. Because switching between the two machines results in a lot of tangled cables, cursing and annoyance, I thought a KVM switch might actually make things easier for me. So far, it has only resulted in further cursing. I cannot get my brand new ATEN CS-1762 2 Port DVI KVM Switch to function. I also get mild electrical shocks when I accidentally touch the end of the power adapter. It behaves very unpredictably, with the only common thing really being that the mouse and keyboard will not work on any computer, any configuration, at all. The keyboard and mouse are both Microsoft, a Microsoft Natural Keyboard, and a Microsoft OEM Optical Mouse. Not exactly thrilling hardware, but it works, and more importantly neither make my RSI flare up too bad so I stick with them. Other than that, it only shows the display some of the time -- ie, sometimes it might show the display up to the login screen of the OS. Sometimes it might keep the display steady, but with graphical glitching. Sometimes it won't show the display of the OS at all. With sound, it seems to consistently get sound from Mac OS X, but not from XP. 
I'm just annoyed, y'know. I reckon this is an RTB, Dead on Arrival Warranty. Cause there are only so many fucking ways one can plug in a fucking KVM and it just doesn't work no matter what configuration I put it in, or how many times I reboot everything. Can you think of any magical "tricks" that KVM's have that the instructions aren't telling me, cause I sure as fuck can't.  I want to throw something at some poor ATEN employee right now (who likely doesn't deserve it). Maybe I'm just pissed cause I've taken several mild electrical currents through the fingertips now, making said fingertips tingly and me irritable.
Why do I have the worst bloody luck with just about everything? |
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neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day  Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| My KVM switch works by pressing Scroll Lock twice and then hitting the up or down arrow keys to switch from one computer to the other.
Also, I noticed that the behavior of my KVM switch sometimes makes my mouse move sluggishly, which is remedied by not moving the mouse when switching. I wonder if you have any active software running on your keyboard and mouse? Like software that "enhances" the stuff you have. Perhaps disabling such things might help |
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