LCD or switch?

[NT61]

Should I buy an LCD screen or stay with mine and use a sitch?

Like you connect you KYB, Mouse, and Monitor at one end and you can have three comps plugged into this. I don't know what's it called but it cost $40 CAN.

All you have to do is to press a butoon and you are on the second or third comp

 

[narafa]

So what's the relation between the LCD monitor and the switch you are talking about? I can't see any sort of relation between the 2

 

[Scrat]

......Like you connect you KYB, Mouse, and Monitor at one end and you can have three comps plugged into this. I don't know what's it called but it cost $40 CAN.

All you have to do is to press a butoon and you are on the second or third comp

Its called a "KVM Switch" stands for 'Keyboard, Video, Mouse'. You will also need extension cables for each computer you connect. For you config you'll need a KVM that has ports for a minimum of 2 PC's, and also one extension cable for the Keyboard, one for Video & one for Mouse ....per computer.

I use one at work and have sometimes had problems when switching between 2 windows2000 pcs using a PS2 Mouse & Keyboard... the mouse & keyboard would stop responding once you switched pcs. It may have just been because i used a hardware style switch(turn knob) and not a software style switch (press one button to cycle between pc's)

 

[Lax]

I think he's asking about the LCD because it uses the DVI connector and not the "old" style DB-15 (I think). If that's the case you can stick with the LCD if you want you just need to get a converter to convert DVI-->VGA (for arguments sake).