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SERVSWITCH™ BRAND CAT5 KVM MICRO EXTENDER
3.1 Compatibility
The ServSwitch Brand CAT5 KVM Micro Extender is designed to operate in
various environments and with a mix of hardware from different manufacturers.
During development, this product was extensively tested with a wide variety of
hardware. However, please note that it is impossible for us to guarantee that the
Micro Extender will interoperate correctly with every keyboard, mouse, monitor,
and motherboard variant currently on the market. If you suspect that you’re
having incompatibility problems, please call Black Box Technical Support.
In general, the Micro Extender is compatible with the following types of
equipment:
• CPU: IBM
®
PC/AT
®
, PS/2, and 100% compatible clones. These should be
desktop machines; laptops and docking stations are not supported.
• Monitor: VGA, SVGA, XGA, XGA-2, or RGsB (sync on green). Be aware that a
few monitors and graphics cards might not work with the “as is” Micro
Extender—at least in their factory-default settings—because they exchange
monitor IDs or VESA DDC (Display Data Channel) information. Call Black
Box Technical Support for help with “ID bit” problems. As for DDC, the
Extender supports it at the ACU3009A’s local user station but not at any
remote user station, so either (a) do not use a DDC monitor at your remote
station, or (b) go into your graphics card’s settings, turn DDC off, and
manually configure the card for your monitor(s).
• Keyboard: Standard (101- or 102-key) PS/2 type or enhanced PS/2 type (104-
or 105-key, designed for use with versions of Windows
®
starting with
Windows 95). Although we don’t recommend this, you might also be able to
use a PC/AT type keyboard with 5-pin DIN connectors; you’ll need adapters to
attach it and its native CPU to the Micro Extender (see the start of
Section 4.2). Some older PC/XT™ or PC/AT type autosensing keyboards
might not be compatible with the Extender. If the keyboard you want to use is
some other type or has some other type of connector, call Black Box for
technical support.
For information about keyboard typematic support, see Section 7.2.
• Mouse: Standard PS/2 type, Microsoft
®
IntelliMouse
®
compatible, or
Logitech™ 3-button PS/2 compatible mouse; the CPU should have standard
PS/2 type mouse ports. If your PC doesn’t have a PS/2 style mouse port, you’ll
need a special adapter to attach the PS/2 mouse cable to one of the PC’s serial
ports (see the start of Section 4.2). The Extender is not compatible with serial
mice or bus mice. If a mouse you want to attach is some other type or has some
other type of connector, call Black Box Technical Support.