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SERVSWITCH™ WIZARD MULTIMEDIA KVM EXTENDER
Use different numbered positions of the DIP switch on the Extender’s Unit A,
shown in Figure 4-2 on the next page, to set other options for your Extender
system:
• Set position
1
to ON to reset the Extender (see
Section 6.2
). For normal
operation, leave this switch set to OFF.
• Set position
4
to ON to disable serial-mouse detection and force the Extender
to configure itself for a PS/2 mouse. This setting is only necessary when you
are using PS/2 “Y” cables to attach certain Compaq
®
laptop computer models
to the Extender. These cables present unusual voltages on their PS/2 mouse
leads, which causes the Extender to erroneously detect the presence of a serial
mouse, after which the PS/2 mouse will not work. Setting this position ON will
stop this error from occurring (you should power down the Extender and
power it back up again to make sure this setting takes effect, however). For
normal operation with other computer types, leave this switch set to OFF.
• Set position
5
to ON to force the Extender into configuration mode at power-
up (see
Sections 4.2.2
and
5.1
). This is the only way to get into configuration
mode when hotkeys have been disabled with Unit B’s DIP switch (see page 28).
For normal operation, leave this this switch set to OFF.
• Use position
6
to determine whether the local CPU’s video output is always
broadcast to both monitors (OFF, the default setting) or is exclusively
displayed on the monitor of the most recently active control station only, while
the other monitor is blanked (ON). The “exclusive” setting is useful when one
of the monitors is in a public area and you don’t want activity at the other
station to be displayed on it.
• If you have two control stations installed in your system, use positions
7
and
8
to set the Extender’s timeout period (the length of time that the user at one
station must be idle before the Extender will give the user at the other station
control over the primary CPU). The possible settings are 2, 10, 30, and
120 seconds. See
Section 5.5
.
(Positions
2
and
3
of this DIP switch are reserved for future use and must remain
set to OFF.)
