Which KVM Switch with K8N Neo4/SLI ???

Question

I'm about to give up on getting my current IO Gear switch to work with this board, has any tried IOGear GCS1732 Extreme??  ANY other USB KVM that works with this board?
Thanks
Ral

Answer 1

heres somthing interesting....i installed a pci usb card, now the kvm works perfectly, my old one, the one i bought months ago for 70 dollars, so that pretty much proves that it is MSI's problem, its how the mobo was designed that conflicts with the kvm, once the mobo uses the usb ports through the pci slot the kvm has no problmes. Theres a catch though, and thats what strangebrew said, the keyboard will not be detected during bios, and im thinking thats not the kvm rather a limitiation of the pci usb card, if i have another keyboard pluged in during post, once in wondows i can unplug it, and the keyboard and mouse plugged in the kvm work fine....
so it is a limitation on msi's behalf..
so in total 50 dollars, 20+tax new keyboard, 20+tax pci card, but at least i can use my kvm, and beats buying a new expensive one.
how ive set my comps up now is, one key board connected directly to the neo4, and everything else to the kvm so i still share the mouse, speakers and monitor. i just have an extra keyboard on the desk for the 2nd comp... not perfect but it cheaper, and alot better than having to unplug the keybaord back and forth...and i get to use my mx700 on both comps.
update another thing you can do, wich is what im doing now, is simply use 1 keyboard for both comps through the kvm, and leave the extra keybaord hidden or out of the way plugged into the msi board, as long as it has a keyboard plugged in the reg usb or ps2 ports, it should boot fine, and when its time to go in to bios, just whip out the extra.