Black Box KV162A manual Using the On-Screen Display with a Non-Multisync Monitor

SERVSWITCH™ MULTI

9.4.4CONFIGURATION CONTROL (TRANSFER CONFIGURATION SETTINGS)

Take these steps to send the configuration settings from the User-Interface Card with On-Screen Display that you’re working at to another UICD elsewhere in your ServSwitch Multi system, or to receive the configuration settings from another UICD (use the [Tab] or arrow keys to move through the fields):

1.At the Administrator-Controls Menu, highlight “Configuration Control” and press [Enter].

2.Use the spacebar to cycle through the available configuration-port options. Select “Internal.”

3.Enter the port address of the remote UICD. Be sure to include the unit address and port letter (“3H,” for example).

4.Use the spacebar to toggle to the desired setting in the “Direction of Transfer” field. If you are sending configuration settings from your UICD to the remote UICD, select “Send.” If you are receiving configuration settings from the remote UICD, select “Recv.”

5.Enter the administration password for the remote UICD.

6.Highlight the Begin Configuration field and press [Enter]. The remote UICD will display a message stating that a transfer is in progress. When the transfer is complete, the UICD that received the configuration will restart itself; this will blank the attached monitor’s screen for several seconds.

9.5Using the On-Screen Display with a Non-Multisync Monitor

The normal default synchronization for the UICD’s on-screen display is PC-type separate horizontal and vertical (H/V) sync. When you select a Sun, Mac, or other computer that uses some other kind of sync, and that computer’s CPU-Interface Card is set to pass the video through unaltered, the UICD will output the on-screen display with sync that matches that of the selected computer’s video.

All of this works fine when your monitor is a multisync type. But when your monitor uses a particular fixed type of synchronization, especially if it’s a type of sync other than H/V, the display (in its factory-default setting) will not appear on screen properly when there’s no computer video to lock onto (when, for example, the selected computer is off or is not outputting video for whatever other reason).

For the UICD to work properly with such a non-multisync monitor, you need to change the UICD’s default synchronization. To do this, take these steps:

1.Send the menu-activation hotkey sequence (which is [Ctrl] twice in succession, unless you’ve changed it— see Section 9.4.3.C) to trigger the on-screen display (even if you can’t see it). If you’ve disabled menu activation (see Section 9.2.3.B), send the Command-Mode hotkey sequence to bring up the Command- Line-Entry Window (see Section 9.2.4).

2.Press the four keys [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Shift] + [M] simultaneously.

3.The UICD will begin cycling through various types of synchronizations. It will switch to a different sync type approximately every ten seconds. When it gets to one that your monitor can display, press [Enter] to have the UICD save that sync type in NVRAM as its default. If you want to quit the process without selecting a new synchronization, press [Esc]; the Card will continue using whatever type of sync it was using before.

Also press [Esc] to terminate the process if, after two minutes, the UICD doesn’t find a matching sync option. If this proves to be the case with your monitor (which should virtually never happen), you will have to use a different monitor.

If you swap in another non-multisync monitor later, just repeat this process to adjust the synchronization again.

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