Windows 10: KVM Switching Causes Monitors to be Rediscovered - Win10

Hi all, this is my inaugural post into tenforums so thanks in advance for entertaining my issue. I hope I'm covering all the bases here but let me know if I need to provide more info. I did complete my PC specs page with most of the info but I can get more specific if needed.

The main issue is that my Win10 Pro 64bit machine 'reconnects' to my monitors each time I switch back from my Win7 Ent 64bit laptop. 'Reconnects' = The Win10 PC makes that sound like a peripheral is being unplugged and plugged back in. This moves all windows to the primary display. Will I live? Yes. But I'd really like to fix it since it never happened before I switched from Win7 to Win10 and doesn't currently happen on my Win7 laptop connected to slot 2 on the same KVM. Additionally, it started happening a while after I switched to Win10, then stopped for a couple of days after I installed a monitor driver, and then began again.

What I have done so far is search the Internet for anything remotely similar to my issue. I was unsuccessful on an exact match. Then I did a clean install of monitor drivers and GPU drivers to no avail.

For the problem machine, the monitors are both DVI connections to the KVM and the KVM is connected to the Win10 machine with DVI > DP cables (Link below).

The Win7 laptop has no issues with the same set-up.

Has anyone else had this issue? If so, any recommendations?

KVM
https://www.amazon.com/ConnectPRO-Master-UDD-12A-KIT-UDD-12A-PLUS-KIT/dp/B00PK2JO3M

DVI > DP Cables
Win10 > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0725Y782P/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1





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KVM switch with win 10

I don't think it is Windows 10 caused the issues but the design concept of the KVM switches with those cases. I had using ConnectPRO Plus serial KVM switches with Windows 10 systems for a long time, and I never experienced the resolutions resizing issues.

Most of KVM switches in market are designed with emulation-base technology in devices sharing including for sharing the monitor, so when the more advanced OS, like Windows 10, is upgraded to those emulation-base KVM switch will have difficult in emulating
/fitting the timing to the systems upgrade to Windows 10 which monitoring the I/O hot-plug and connected devices' status all the time.

I don't like to give suggestion of just changing the KVM switch and find a KVM switch based on DDM technology, but looks like there is no other solution then using more advanced KVM switches based on the DDM technology (Dynamic Device Mapping). Of you
may want to using an EDID emulator putting it between each connected PC/system and your old KVM switch to keep feeding the EDID of your monitor to the Windows 10 PC/system.

 

Wrong monitor resolution when using KVM switch


Hi,
When using Win10 with my monitor it correctly sets the resolution to 1360x768.
When I use my KVM switch it changes the resolution to 1024x768 which looks all wrong. I try to manually change the resolution but 1360x768 is not on the list. I have unchecked the "hide modes" in the advanced monitor setting but still no 1360x768.
The other PC connected to the KVM switch is running XP and that works fine on 1360x768 so I know the KVM is capable of using this setting.
How can I fix this?
I was thinking there must be a way of manually setting and locking the resolution or turning of the auto monitor detection.

I did some googling and found a program which looked like it would help but not for the Intel chipset (using on board graphics).

Many thanks

JD

 

Good KVM Switch for Gaming

Does anyone have a suggestion for a gaming KVM switch. I have a system I do all my standard computing on and I'm currently building a gaming system. I want to get a KVM switch because I don't have the money or space for a new monitor. Are there any KVM switches that work exceptionally between standard and gaming systems, without losing video quality and performance???