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Initial Installation
∙Connect your keyboard, monitor and mouse to the USB and VGA ports on the KVM switch labelled CONSOLE and connect the USB hub if required. Connect your speakers and microphone if required.
∙Model 32827 (4 Port): Connect the single
∙Connect the other ends of the KVM cables to your computers
∙Switch on the first computer and allow it to boot up completely, do not switch away from this port unless the port LED on the KVM Switch has stopped blinking. The port LED will stop blinking as soon as all USB devices are recognised and installed completely by the operating system.
Note: The USB KVM Switch is recognised by USB operating systems as “KVM Switcher“ Device (Mac) or USB Composite Devices (Windows) and also as a USB Hub. For correct recognition and installation your operating system should be up to date. If you are faced with any problems with device recognition and driver installation then please install the most recent updates for your operating system.
∙Now proceed to install the Windows or Mac KVM Switcher software from the CD included to allow you to use all the advanced KVM switching functions such as hotkey configuration, Audio binding and Auto Scan.
∙Whenever you connect a USB device to the KVM switch it will operate in the same way with your computers as if it was simply connected to a USB hub.
KVM operation
You can choose from 3 different methods of switching between computers:
Via “Port”
Via keyboard hotkey (2x Scroll Lock button- not available on a Mac!)
Via KVM software (only Windows and Mac, requires installation oft he KVM software):
oHotkey CTRL + ALT + [*], as default [*] are the keys 1, 2, 3, 4, and can
be reconfigured under Windows and Mac
oSwitching icon in the system tray (Windows) respectively in the Dock
(Mac)
oDesktop Icon or program (Windows)
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Please note that the green port LED will continue blinking during the USB device enumeration process. Please wait for this process to complete and for the LED to remain illuminated before switching computer ports.
KVM switching software
Hotkey switching – Universal hotkey: on IBM compatible PCs you can switch ports by simply pressing the Scroll Lock hotkey twice within 1 second.
Windows ME/2000/XP/Vista and Mac users should install the software from the included CD to use the advanced switching options as mentioned earlier. In addition to the hotkey switching the Auto Scan function and binding of audio ports to one computer are available.
The switching software has to be installed on all connected computers to allow the advanced switching options to be available. Insert the CD into your CD drive. Locate and start the “setup.exe” file if the program does not start automatically. Mac users: please follow the info file and extract a folder to a local drive and start installation from there. When installation is complete an additional icon will appear in the Windows system tray and on the desktop. Mac users may have to place an
alias in the Dock.
When no KVM switch is connected the symbol on
the right may be shown, otherwise you will see an icon 1, 2, 3 or 4 for the recently connected computer port number. (The design of the icon may appear slightly different depending on your operating system!)
When switching computers simply click the icon with the right mouse button or double click the icon on the desktop. A switching windows as shown will appear. Click Switch to PC1 order 2, 3, 4 to select the desired computer.
Only switching to active ports will be available! The only way to switch to a non active port is to use the buttons on top of the KVM switch.
Select Start Autoscan to automatically switch through the active computers.
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