I'm looking for my best option for a sound card that will drive 4 small outdoor weather proof speakers (no sub or mid range boxes). The space is small and the volume will be low.
The speakers will be positioned about 15' from my computer on the outside of a concrete masonry wall. If some...
I have a feeling that adding resistors might really be the ticket. I'm no Engineer either, but everything seems to point to interference being transferred between the KVM's and then the keyboard signal get garbled. I might revisit the whole thing again next week or sometime....
Man, thanks for all your help with this...
BUT, I'm going to take a brake on this for awhile. I've lost a little of my ambition!
(my other idea was to try a different brand KVM -a simple IO gear just to switch the 2nd monitor. Didn't really help much but I thought it was worth a try...)
We'll do. I have one other crap shoot thing that I'm going to try....
Btw- I think you are right about the resistors. The cable works fine when plugged in to only one KVM.
If anyone knows what size of resistor I would need to solder onto each connection, please let me know!
Well, quicker than that...
No change. Works great for about 20 cycles. Then I get problems. If I unplug and replug the keyboard it resets everything for another 20 cycles.
I'm about at the end of play time...
Alright, well, curiosity got the best of me and I went ahead and spliced together try #2, twisting the cables like you said. I was a little more meticulous this time and the solder job was definately an improvement. I'm typing on the spliced cable right now. Just wrapped them real quick with...
Hmmmmm, I'm almost inclinded to go with the male-female/female splitter route and get a 2 male/male couplers, and then splice a female/female coupler. Seems that the chances of interference would be minimized a little with just one female coupler on the keyboard side of the equation... maybe...
Hmmmm, well I was wrong about something...
after 20 or so rotations, both the KVM hotkeys AND the keyboard within windows doesn't recognize the right keys.
When I run into this KVM switching problem and then try to type in Notepad or somewhere, the keyboard keys start giving different...
Well, crapola... what happens is this: I can use this setup and toggle between the 2 monitors and PC's about 20 times. Then, for some reason, the keyboard hotkey fails to switch the monitors. If I unplug the keyboard PS2 plug and reconnect it, it works beautifully again... for another 20...
Yeah, the wife made me eat dinner!
Anyway, I soldered all the connections and left the wires bare just to do a quick test and I'm stunned to report that it worked great! There was just a slight fraction of a second difference in the monitor switching. Not enough to bug me and much better...
Problem with that is I dont need a male/female (gender change), I need one female/female and 2 male/males. The male/male is easy to find but try and find a female/female.... I can't.
The reason is the KVM's have female connectors, the keyboard end is male, and the Y adapter is male split...
Just cut open the cable a minute ago. Had several male/female 6" PS/2 extensions that were useless 2 minutes ago!
I'll admit, I've never completed a sucessful solder job and it's been years since I've even tried. I have a kit, so maybe I'll give it a shot. I was thinking about just...
I know it sounds like a mess, but it really does work perfectly. The KVM's are the same model and switch exactly at the same time. The hard thing to find on KVM's is one that supports both microphone and speaker switching. Usually they just come with one option. By ditching the microphone...
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