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Since then, about a month, the replacment switch has worked just fine. The first KVM switch, that I received, failed after a few weeks of use. My experience suggests poor quality control. The switches are manufactured in China. Very annoying. Amazon made good on warranty and replaced faulty switch at no cost to me.
I had one with the same fitting and same VAC so I tried it and we have had no problems since. It says there is an optional power cord available, but I couldn't find it anywhere on your site. GET A POWER ADAPTER. This KVM does work without the power, but sometimes the mouse will not connect. It has a place to put power, but no power adapter comes with it.
I have found that it's best, when booting a machine, to wait until it's almost finished booting before switching to another machine. It took some initial fiddling with the display properties within Windows Control Panel to get things to my liking, but it's worked fine ever since. I bought this switch upon the recommendation of a co-worker. I use it to switch between two Dell machines, one running Windows 2000 and the other running Windows XP.
If you are looking for an affordable solution for multiple systems, this is a great product. Toggling between the systems is as easy as hitting scroll lock twice then the up/down arrows. This is a very solid product that is easy to setup and easy to use. With multiple PCs at home, this really helped me to consolidate all of the PCs into a single keyboard/monitor/mouse setup.
In the future, I hope to buy a Rack Mount KVM. This product solve me some troubles I've with my home servers, so I was following for almost 6 month. Now I get it, I need to sell 2 monitors and mouses and keyboards, ja ja.
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