UBCD & KVM switch help
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:58 am
I will start by apologizing if this issue has been posted on before but I was unable to locate any information in the forum. I have been using UBCD for almost 2 years at my current employer to wipe/test hard drives and load custom images for machines we refurbish. I like UBCD because I can have hard drives from 4 different manufacturers at any one time and it saves me the hassle of having to track down a bunch of different diagnostic disks when i can just boot an all in one tool from a flash drive. I also use it for testing memory and burning systems in after I finish cloning the image.
We recently moved to a new location and I got free reign to setup a new test bench and purchased a new pc with plenty of extra ports for all my testing and cloning, our thoughts were that we would run this system through a kvm switch so that our other diagnostic pc which is always booted into xp could share same monitor, mouse, and keyboard.
The problem is that regardless of whether I boot UBCD from a cd or usb drive in this new system I can NOT get the menu to respond to either a ps2 or usb keyboard while it is plugged into the KVM. If I reboot the system and plug either keyboard directly into the motherboard I can use the UBCD just fine. (Legacy USB is enabled in the BIOS)
I have tried 5 different keyboards to no success. The switch works fine on the other pc with xp booted and all ports on the switch have been tested so it doesn't seem to be a bad switch. A separate power supply was also purchased with the KVM switch both of which came from QVS to make sure that there was ample power for the bus.
My question now becomes:
1. Is this an incompatability with this intel motherboard ( model: DG41TY ), and this brand of KVM switch? (If anyone is doing a similar setup and has this working could you list your brand of KVM switch and motherboard manufacturer)
2. Is there a driver or something that is not getting loaded by booting the UBCD that is needed for the KVM so that the keyboard is recognized?
Thanks in advance for any ideas!
We recently moved to a new location and I got free reign to setup a new test bench and purchased a new pc with plenty of extra ports for all my testing and cloning, our thoughts were that we would run this system through a kvm switch so that our other diagnostic pc which is always booted into xp could share same monitor, mouse, and keyboard.
The problem is that regardless of whether I boot UBCD from a cd or usb drive in this new system I can NOT get the menu to respond to either a ps2 or usb keyboard while it is plugged into the KVM. If I reboot the system and plug either keyboard directly into the motherboard I can use the UBCD just fine. (Legacy USB is enabled in the BIOS)
I have tried 5 different keyboards to no success. The switch works fine on the other pc with xp booted and all ports on the switch have been tested so it doesn't seem to be a bad switch. A separate power supply was also purchased with the KVM switch both of which came from QVS to make sure that there was ample power for the bus.
My question now becomes:
1. Is this an incompatability with this intel motherboard ( model: DG41TY ), and this brand of KVM switch? (If anyone is doing a similar setup and has this working could you list your brand of KVM switch and motherboard manufacturer)
2. Is there a driver or something that is not getting loaded by booting the UBCD that is needed for the KVM so that the keyboard is recognized?
Thanks in advance for any ideas!