20 Most Recent Avocent DSR2035 (DSR2035001) 32-port KVM Switch Questions & Answers

you stuck in Upgrade mode, a TFTP recovery is needed. There are instructions on the Avocent Website (check the release notes) on how to do this.

You might want to download Solar Winds (TFTP Freeware program) to get this done in 5 minutes.

Hi Bruce:
Sorry to hear that you are having problems. If you still want to use the device, you can assign drive letters to you other devices that do not disrupt the use of you KVM switch. Using device manager, you can change drive letters on all drives except your hard drive, usually drive 0.

Right click on you "My Computer" Icon

A menu will open

Chose "Manage"

The Computer Management window will open

The Computer Management window is broken down into 3 sections. The first section on the left side of the window shows a menu. Disk Management is on the lower portion of the menu.

The right side is separated into two sections, top and bottom. The top portion shows a list of active drives on the computer. The lower portion shows all drives connected to the computer. CD or DVD drives that have not disk will not show as active drives on the top section, but can be seen in the lower section.

The lower section will show the drive description, drive size and drive condition (online or off line) in small box on the left side of that section. Disk drives will designate a "Drive" and a number. Drive 0 is usually your internal hard drive. Then it would list drive 1, drive 2, etc, depending on how many internal and external drive sources you have connected to your computer. Then it will list your CD drives and generally show their drive letter assignments.

Next to the smaller section described above, is a larger section which shows the driver letter, size of the driver and condition (if working correctly will show "healthy")

This is the area you can right click and get a menu that will allow you to open, explore, mark the partition as active, change the driver letter, format the drive or delete a partition. (A note of caution here. Changing the driver letter on your main hard drive partition will cause windows to stop functioning. The main hard drive, or hard drive partition, is normally given the letter "C".) A hard drive may show two or more partitions with separate drive letters designated for each partition.

As for uninstalling the KVM device, if you want to completely remove all files from your computer, do a search (off the start menu) and search for *KVM vmDisk USB Device".

The delete all the files that are found in the search.

Let me know if I can assist you further or you need any clarification on my instructions.

1. Connect to the switch console port using a serial cable and a terminal emulation program like PuTTY.
2. Power on the switch and wait for the login prompt.
3. Press the "Ctrl + C" keys to enter the bootloader.
4. Type "configure" at the bootloader prompt and press enter.
5. Type "set password" at the next prompt and enter a new password.
6. Repeat the process for changing the login name.
7. Type "save" at the bootloader prompt to save the changes.
8. Type "reboot" at the bootloader prompt to reboot the switch and test the new login credentials.

So it's the monitor that flashes red? I would try the monitor on a PC to determine if the monitor is good. If not, replace monitor. If monitor works on a PC but not the KVM, power cycle the KVM. Depending on the model you may be able to do a hard reset. On other models you can access the KVM via IP to determine if there is an issue with the KVM.

Boot the computers in order making sure the one you are about to switch on is selected on the switch. Start with 1, then 2 etc. Make sure the computer fully loads and then log into it before moving on.

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Look here: http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/Serial-Cards-Adapters/8-Port-Native-PCI-Express-RS232-Serial-Card-16950-UART~PEX8S952