On Apr 16, 1999 08:58am, PCBUILD - PERSONAL COMPUTER HARDWARE DISCUSSION LIST
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 P-PCHDL> On 14 Apr 99, at 17:56, Brian.santos wrote:

>>  Yes, you need a data switch. .....etc

 P-PCHDL>   There are three basic problems with this advice:  ...etc.....
 P-PCHDL> ..
 P-PCHDL> 2.  A couple of the lines in a VGA connection carry information
 P-PCHDL> about the monitor to the VGA card.  If you boot a PC while the
 P-PCHDL> monitor is switched away, the video card may initialize to a mode
 P-PCHDL> that the monitor can't support......

 I have this setup here at home, what I'm doing is swithing both the keyboard
 and monitor to the CPU that I want to start, then when the OS has loaded, I
 will switch the keyboard and monitor to the other CPU.
 If you try to start the CPU with the monitor switched away, I won't start up.
 Some PC users says that there are some disadvantages in using this type of
 data switch compare to the electronic or automatic switch, but I've been
 using this setup for 2 years now without any problem.

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