C3H+Backup+and+Temporary+PC

As of Fall of 2005 the Dell Dimension 4300 that had been the PC under the Office Administrator's desk was replaced and available as a Backup PC. It was put to that use and had an attached tape drive for almost a year, before being retired to storage. With problems on two other PCs at C3H, it was brought out of mothballs and installed under the DRE's desk.

Both the Dell Optiplex that was installed for the DRE and this Dell Dimension 4300 are installed using a [|KVM (Keyboard, Video, Monitor)] switch. By depressing "Scroll Lock" twice within a second, the up/down arrow keys will switch the Optiplex PC and the Dimension 4300 PC to use the keyboard and monitor (separate mice at this point as noted before).

Spent much of the morning and after service 2008-03-09 setting up both PCs to use the [|KVM (Keyboard, Video, Monitor)] switch. This Pc is running Windows/2000, not XP, and had a very sluggish response and now ocasionally impossibly noisy fan or hard disk.
 * the Dell Dimension 4300 PC runs Windows/2000 and had the CA Internetsuite de-installed, replaced by OpenOffice
 * the Dell Optiplex does on occasion run EXTREMELY slowly, cleaning out the install image and rebuilding

Manual for [|Belkin KVM switch]