I'm going to scream
Nov. 11th, 2004 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
faithellenHere on my desk, I have my work laptop, and my gigundo monitor for my home PC, and the keyboard and mouse for the home PC, and a mouse for my laptop. To clean the clutter and keep me from losing my mind, I got a KVM switch. Worked great for a couple weeks, and then it stopped working on my laptop.
Turns out the cable was defective, so I returned it to the company I bought it from, and they sent me a brandy new one yesterday.
Connected it this morning, everything worked fine. Rebooted my laptop because it was getting slow and finicky (not unreasonable given how long it's been since my last reboot). Now when I hit the switch to go from the home PC to the laptop, it shows the laptop screen output, and then in 5 seconds automatically switches back to the PC.
I think we've got another busted cable. Only both Belkin and the place I got it are on the west coast, and don't open until 11 and 11:30 my time. Plus, I think the place I got it has some weird "we'll replace it once" policy.
I just want less clutter. Is that so much to ask?
Turns out the cable was defective, so I returned it to the company I bought it from, and they sent me a brandy new one yesterday.
Connected it this morning, everything worked fine. Rebooted my laptop because it was getting slow and finicky (not unreasonable given how long it's been since my last reboot). Now when I hit the switch to go from the home PC to the laptop, it shows the laptop screen output, and then in 5 seconds automatically switches back to the PC.
I think we've got another busted cable. Only both Belkin and the place I got it are on the west coast, and don't open until 11 and 11:30 my time. Plus, I think the place I got it has some weird "we'll replace it once" policy.
I just want less clutter. Is that so much to ask?
