KVM switch.

You're looking backwards trying to keep everything DVI compatible, rather than biting the bullet and moving forwards to HDMI/DP.

A few years back I moved from 4xDVI/PS2 DVI kvm and VGA/DVI monitor to a

Not sure if your ARM box could take USB keyboard and mouse, or you'd need a PS/2 adapter?

I'm thinking your motherboard has multiple video ports and is defaulting to some other output port, if your HDMI TV is not exactly autodetected, by either the BIOS or Window 10.

There may be BIOS options that might help make the default stay as HDMI.

Or it may be Windows 10, just being helpful - moving outputs that it again thinks aren't in use.

Is there an option to put a remote viewer (e.g. NoMachine) on one box and remove the need for KVM completely ?

In message , Andy Burns writes

I went from a single PC to a double PC setup last year, and went for a HDMI KVM so that I didn't have to get a second monitor/keyboard/mouse. Ever since then I've had a problem with receiving most of the TV channels that I get via Freeview (the BBC and ITV channels along with 4 and 5 are OK, as are the DAB radio channels, everything else is badly broken up) when ever I have either PC running.

Adrian

HDMI is sometimes known to interfere at UHF frequencies (depending on resolution and pixel clock) how close is the KVM to any part of your TV wiring?

I've never seen it from DP despite having a tuner card in one of the KVM connected PCs and DP using even higher frequencies in the UHF range.

I've already spent a fortune on a new MB. Add in a new monitor, KVM and the price increases - a lot. And this computer doesn't have the option of an HDMI output anyway.

It may be difficult for some to understand, but my previous setup worked perfectly for what I wanted.

What I would try is a separate HDMI switch from the actual KVM switch. This sounds like a nuisance, but most of them will switch to whichever output is most recently active so provided the PC you have just switched to had a blank screen before you switched the KVM it will not need the button pressing on the HDMI switch as well. Be sure to get a 4k, UHD HDCP 2.2 rated one and it will probably switch the HDMI signals intact.

I found KVM switches unreliable where the DDC/EDID functions would clash and so revert to 640x480.

So I moved on to using "remote desktop" and haven't looked back. It also means you don't have to have the machines co-located.

That depends on how smart the KVM switch is. An old one would join the DDC channels together. I'm not sure if graphic card can detect can detect loads on their LVDS outputs and turn them off accordingly.

I don't know anyone who still uses KVM switches.

I do, but it's a backup.

Even though it's right in front of me to switch between a possible eight machines, I prefer to use RDP sessions. People who do gaming or video editing wouldn't.

Thanks for the follow up.

The KVM is about 30" from the trunk that the coax runs through, about

Adrian

Thanks.

I've just looked that up, and it seems to be something that is intended for TVs, whereas I'm using my KVM purely for PC -> monitor HDMI connectivity. Are we talking at cross purposes, or is that the market is overwhelmingly for TVs, but it works just as well for PC displays ?.

Adrian

Andy,

Whilst these are not cheap, I a box similar to this for running an Atari into my HDMI TV with no SCART:-

but I ended up using it between my BT YouView box (HDMI out) and my TV HDMI In because the TV was not happy with HDMI from the YouView box. Dave

I was told it stood for keyboard, video, mouse. Can be VGA, DVI, HDMI, USB and PS2 - with most combinations.

Being basically a switch, no reason not to use it how you want. With mine, it changes sources via the keyboard. Although can be switched manually too.

TVs can be very fussy about the resolutions etc PCs use.

Two points. One may be irrelevant, which is that you will need to transmit the copy protection if you are using the monitor to watch copy-protected video - but you may not want to. But my main point was that the KVM switch may not have the bandwidth to transfer high resolution video without loss.

In message , Roger Hayter writes

Thanks.

Not sure if point 1 has been a problem so far (I don't think so), regarding point 2, I don't think that has been a problem either. Of course, both of these points could alter in the future.

Adrian

My ATEN DVI KVM seems perfectly happy at the maximum resolution this DVI monitor will take.

I do like ATEN KVMs. I have four here (2, 2, 4, and 8 port). Rock solid on unconnected reboots.