Hi L1Tech Forum,
First post here so please pardon any formatting issues, as well as that disclaimer I will also say that this issue has had me pulling out hair so if it sounds rambley it is because it is.
My end goal is to get to one of two answers: windows issue (and possibly what I could do to resolve it, or KVM issue (ditch current one, buy l1tech KVM)
So, setting the scene: I got a new job that requires me to use the a work laptop. With the laptop I was given a docking station with three display outputs. I purchased a KVM from amazon.ca (tried to add a link but the forum didn’t like that, here is the product code B0DKH72KWS, didn’t see a rule against it but will be removed on request) as a starting point and things did seemed fine until I started running into an intermittent issue.
Actual issue: All keyboard devices stop working on my home rig after a few swaps of the KVM. I specifically say all keyboard devices since plugging in a new keyboard directly to the PC does not work, and the keyboard buttons on my mouse (in device manager as HID Keyboard Device) do not work either. The keyboard will still works fine when I KVM swap back to my work laptop
Attempted fixes: Unplugging the KVM nor keyboard fixes it, the only fix is a restart. A shutdown and reboot does not work unless I also unplug PC power, I am guessing here that the PC is not actually shutting down but just going into a deep sleep. I also tried using powershell to disable and re-enable all HID keyboard devices with Get-PnpDevice, didn’t work.
So to end this all, I am lost. After a bunch of reading I was thinking that maybe the USB emulation or Intelligent USB HID passthrough that the L1KVM has may help here but I was unsure and looking for another opinion.
Any help would be greatly appropriated, thanks to any that can.