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I have a slightly flakey USB mouse connection to my old (20 years!) Belkin OmniView KVM 4-port switch. The switch was built for PS/2 mouse and keyboard, so I use those USB-to-PS2 converter plugs.
The connection to the KVM from my main workstation also requires a USb-to-PS2 patch cable. On that computer -- and that computer only -- I have to be careful when switching back to that particular workstation from another on the KVM switch. I need to hold the mouse steady and press one of the buttons until I see the keyboard lights flash. Otherwise, the mouse cursor will ride all over the screen, open windows or close desktop "gadgets." Usually hitting ESC will stop this behavior. But the best approach to avoiding it -- I already explained.
I've been troubleshooting the automated backup of my wkstation to my WHS server. For this particular machine, the regular-- predictable -- successful daily backups went to hell after I replaced my client machine's HDD with a Sammy 840 SSD and installed the Magician software. Given user choices, Magician will disable Windows backup service for "performance" reasons. Moreover, when I cloned the system drive to the SSD, it took the "System Reserved" volume of 120MB and shrunk it to 60MB. The Event log indications on the server seem to suggest that the backup process needs space on that little stubby volume.
I digress . . . . back to the point. I was testing the WHS client-backup today by starting a manual backup from the server. WHS reported it "successful."
But during the backup, when trying to open Control panel or the Event Viewer, "focus" would not stay on the chosen item of windows popup menus. It would cycle through all the menu items continuously. So even if I selected "Event Viewer" from "Administrative Tools" and attempt to click on it, Windows would open "Component Services" instead.
Sometime before the backup reached "100%" and "Successful," this behavior ended. And it didn't start with flipping between computers on the KVM switch: I started the backup through WHS Dashboard on the client system. the behavior started and stopped -- apparently on its own.
Is there any explanation for this? This is the second time I've seen it since replacing my HDD with the 840-Pro. And -- no doubt -- using this old KVM switch doesn't help much, but I'd learned to live with it and exercise care when switching back to the workstation in question.
The connection to the KVM from my main workstation also requires a USb-to-PS2 patch cable. On that computer -- and that computer only -- I have to be careful when switching back to that particular workstation from another on the KVM switch. I need to hold the mouse steady and press one of the buttons until I see the keyboard lights flash. Otherwise, the mouse cursor will ride all over the screen, open windows or close desktop "gadgets." Usually hitting ESC will stop this behavior. But the best approach to avoiding it -- I already explained.
I've been troubleshooting the automated backup of my wkstation to my WHS server. For this particular machine, the regular-- predictable -- successful daily backups went to hell after I replaced my client machine's HDD with a Sammy 840 SSD and installed the Magician software. Given user choices, Magician will disable Windows backup service for "performance" reasons. Moreover, when I cloned the system drive to the SSD, it took the "System Reserved" volume of 120MB and shrunk it to 60MB. The Event log indications on the server seem to suggest that the backup process needs space on that little stubby volume.
I digress . . . . back to the point. I was testing the WHS client-backup today by starting a manual backup from the server. WHS reported it "successful."
But during the backup, when trying to open Control panel or the Event Viewer, "focus" would not stay on the chosen item of windows popup menus. It would cycle through all the menu items continuously. So even if I selected "Event Viewer" from "Administrative Tools" and attempt to click on it, Windows would open "Component Services" instead.
Sometime before the backup reached "100%" and "Successful," this behavior ended. And it didn't start with flipping between computers on the KVM switch: I started the backup through WHS Dashboard on the client system. the behavior started and stopped -- apparently on its own.
Is there any explanation for this? This is the second time I've seen it since replacing my HDD with the 840-Pro. And -- no doubt -- using this old KVM switch doesn't help much, but I'd learned to live with it and exercise care when switching back to the workstation in question.
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