Mercury 16 manual

Mercury 8 / 16 PS/2 KVM Switch User’s Manual Rev1.0[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual I Table of Contents Table of C ontents ................................................................................................ I 1. Introdu ction .................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Feat ure ....................................................[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 1 1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing KVM switch. KVM switch can save your MONEY, TIME, SPACE, EQUIPMENT and POWER. Controlling multiple PCs from One Ke yboard, Mouse and VGA Monitor. KVM switch is loaded with features such as 19” Rack Mount Size, Daisy Chain up to eight units, On Screen Display Menu, Password se[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 2 1.2 Package Contents KVM Switch Unit 1 PCS User’s manual CD-ROM 1 PCS Quick Installation Guide 1 PCS AC to DC Power Adapter 1 PCS Rack Mount Kit 1 SET Daisy Chain Cable (1.8M) 1 PCS KVM Cable; HDDB-15 / VGA + PS/2 x 2(1.8M) 2 PCS Table 1-1. Package Contents[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 3 1.3 Technical Specifications Model No. Mercury 8 Mercury 16 PC Port 8 16 Console Port 1 1 PC Port Connector (All Female Type) VGA HDDB 15pin ( shared with PS2 keyboard and Mouse interface ) Console Port Connector (All Female Type) PS/2 Keyboard Mini Din 6 pin PS/2 Mouse Mini Din 6 pin VGA HDDB 15pin Daisy Chain Port C[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 4 1.4 System Requirements Model No. Mercury 8 Local Console side One VGA Monitor One PS/2 Keyboard One PS/2 Mouse Computer side 8 x HDDB 15 pin male to one HDDB 15 pin and Mini Din 6 pin special cables Table 1-3. Syst em Requirements Model No. Mercury 16 Console side One VGA Monitor One PS/2 Keyboard One PS/2 Mouse Comp[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 5 1.5 Cable Diagrams PC Port Special Cable: HDB15 pin male to one HDDB 15 pin male and Mini Din 6 pin special cables Fi gur e 1-1 . HDDB-15 / VGA + PS/2 x 2 (1.8M) Daisy Chain Cable: VGA Cable: HDDB-15 pin Male to Male Figure 1-2. Daisy Chain Cable PS/2 Cable: Mini Din 6 pin Male to Male Figure 1-3. PS/2 Cable[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 6 1.6 Rear Panel 8 port PS/2 KVM Switch: 16 port PS/2 KVM Switch: Figure 1-4. Rear Panel 2. Hardware Installation Before installation, please make su re all of peripherals and computers have been turned off. This example of installation is based on 8 ports Rack Mount KVM Switch and you also can think that 16 ports Rack [...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 7 Step 2 Connect the monitor to the KVM Switch. Using the attached cable, or the one included with your monitor, connect it to the HDDB-15 female port on the back of the KVM unit labeled with the monitor symbol at the Console connector. Figure 2-2. Connect Monitor Step 3 Connect the keyboard to the KVM Switch. Figure 2-[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 8 Step 5 Each PC port connector is HDDB-15 pin type. Locate your input cable. It will have a HDDB-15 pin male connector at one end. Plug it into any label computer port on the rear of KVM switch unit. The other end of input cable will have three connectors: a HDDB-15 pin male type for PC video, a Mini Din 6 pin female t[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 9 3. Usage The power on state of 8 / 16 port KVM switch: When you power on KVM switch, it will ask you the password, the default password value is eight zero –“00000000“ . Please key in eight zero and enter the same value at retype field. Notes: Before you are not familiar wit h the operation of OSD manual, please[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 10 Reset Button ( (“Bank” button) and (“any PC” button)): To press both “PC1” button and “bank” button of master bank simultaneously can reset KVM switch. This reset action will not only return KVM switch back to initial state --- Check the password, but also re-check all of slave banks which connected t[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 11 To select PC port: To get out of Auto Scan Mode, Press any key or SPACE bar. Scroll Lock Scroll Lock Scroll Lock Scroll Lock Scroll Lock Scroll Lock B S Bank No 1~8 Port No 0 or 1 Port No. 1~8 (8 port) 1~16 (16 port) Scroll Lock Scroll Lock Page Down Scroll Lock Scroll Lock R Next Bank + + = + + Beeper (Note: The def[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 12 Figure 3-1. Hotkey Example ： A. To access a computer attached to Port 4 of the 3rd Bank. You can press through hot key as below: Scroll lock + Scroll lock + 3 + 04 B. To access a computer attached from Bank 3 to Bank 4, You can press through hot key as below: Scroll lock + Scroll lock + Page Down Bank no. and Port [...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 13 4. Daisy Chain Connection Diagram Please use the attached 3 feet 3-in-one daisy chain Cable Kit to daisy chain the KVM Switch. A. Connect Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor to t he console port (white color block) of bank 1 KVM switch. B. Use one end of 3-in-one Cable Kit to connect the daisy chain port of bank 1 and the ot[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 14 5. Hot Plug The KVM Switch supports “Hot Plug“ function for easy addition or removal of PCs. The user can arrange or maintain PCs as follows: a. A PC can be disconnected and reconnected to the same or different port of the KVM unit without having to power it off as long as it is not the Daisy-chain port or pass t[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 15 6. On Screen Display Operation 1. OSD menu can be popped up in powered on PC port or non-powered on PC port or empty PC port. The resolution of OS D menu is fixed to 1024 x 768 for non-powered on PC port or empty PC port. 2. When you pop up the OSD menu window go through the hot key, you will see the following small [...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 16 “SYSTEM 01”, SYSTEM 02”,…,”SYSTEM 16” and 8 port KVM switch is from “SYSTEM 01”, “SYSTEM 02”,… ,”SYSTEM 08”. Besides, the sun symbol “ ☼ “near to the PC name represent s the PC system is powered on. To use up arrow key “ © ” or down arrow key “ ª ” to select port for destinat[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 17 Figure 6-4. On Screen Display There is an enter password window showed out when you select this item and then press the Enter. The maximum password is eight digits. After you key in the password already and press the Enter key, there is another window for confirming your typed password. Figure 6-5. On Screen Display [...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 18 “SCROLL LOCK”, “SCROLL LOCK” and “R” keys in order. Figure 6-7. On Screen Display ROM REFLASH[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 19 7. Troubleshooting 1. Ensure that all cables are well seated. Label all of cables with the number for each respective computer to avoid confusion. 2. The recommended VGA cable distance is 5 meters maximum without ghosting and degradation. Normally, the cable length is based on driver capacity of your VGA card. If you[...]

Mercury 8/16 User’s Manual 20 power for the switch. In order to ma ke sure the system can work steadily, please do not set power switch to off st ate or remove the power adapter from the switch. Although the PCs connected to KVM S witch unit are able to support enough power to the stand alone switch, KVM Switch unit still needs a power adapter fo[...]

Mercury 8 / 16 PS/2 KVM Switch[...]