Hi Folks

About 4 months ago I bought a new tower just for gaming and now use my old tower for everything else.
I found this wonderful gadget lets you share the keyboard,mouse and monitor between the two towers and it works flawlessly you just tap the scroll lock key and the monitor blinks back and fourth between the two towers and hit the Esc key to lock it in to the one you want.
my monitor was a sylvania 20 inch crt about 5 years old and it finally went out on me so i replaced it with an acer 22" wide LCD x221.
I hooked up the new monitor and when i went to switch towers i got a (input not supported) messege from the monitor, doesnt matter what tower your switching from or to you will get this messege when trying to switch to any tower.
The switcher works if i turn off one of the towers and can use either tower i choose just cant try to switch to one, I have read alot of people getting this (input not supported) messege for many differnt reasons some its for games the fix was just using the rite refresh rate and screen size for others it was vista and acer has a driver to fix this os compatability but i have searched high and low and can not find anyone using a switcher and getting this error. I have used the recomended settings and experimented with many others with no LUCK.
This is my first LCD monitor and i am finding that a crt isnt as picky about refresh rates and screen size as a lcd is, i am running the recomended refresh 60hrz and 1280 x 1024, i am still trying differnt color rite now im at 32 bit .
there are no drivers for the acer x221 except for the vista compatibility driver.
pc1 is a amd 1.6 with a nividia 5600 agp and pc2 is a intel duel core 1.8 with a nividia 7800 pcie.

I've had PROBLEMS with KVM switches before. I use this one (I have two, a 2 & 4 port) and haven't had any issues. I've used them with both CRT & LCD monitors.

http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?productID=4720

Alan <>< Ale52,I concur with your positive feedback re KVM switches.been using a 2 way on both lcd and crt monitors for years. However i offer you an alternative to your web link for far superior pricing. if you are within driveable distance (U.S.A. only) of a Fry's electronics store they can usually be had for a third of the price displayed at your link.. If not their web site www.outpost.com should have them at close to their store price (SHIPPING not included) Good luck,truenorthI also have a brand new KVM switch that connects up to 6 boxes. I used it for about two months. It was wonderful but things happened and I no longer need it or the cables. So................sweet person that I am, I will give the whole kit and kaboodle to the first person who would like them. Email me!

Yes, I know, this isn't an ADVERTISING board. But I read the thread because I thought the poster was having trouble finding something so he can only use one kb and mouse. Hence, my offer.