On Tuesday (2 days ago) my parents (90) has a power surge, which messed up the PC's at their house - which is about 100 miles away from me.
I ordered the Gl.iNet KWM on Wednesday on Amazon, and it arrived the same day at their house.
This morning (Thurs) I managed to talk my Dad through wiring it up to a quite old PC without USB3 - so he needed an extra old USB->usbC cable, which luckily he had.
The kit came with one oldUSB->Usb for the PSU, but the connection to the PC was only usbC->usbC.
Luckily one PC at the house was working - so I used Splashtop to remote into the working PC and then got into the interface ok on the GL-RM1 using Chrome on that PC.
I upgraded the firmware on the GL-RM1, then got into the BIOS ok on the broken PC - after quite a lot of investigation of the BIOS and BCDEDIT it turned out that it was a problem with the disk ordering.
- the PC has 3 hard disks - and windows wanted them to be ordered 0,2,1 in the BIOS, rather than 0,1,2 - As windows is on disk 2 - and the startup stuff is on disk 0.
The power surge and BIOS reset had put the order back to the default 0,1,2.
Eventually after quite a few retries I managed to sort out the issue.
The only problem I had was inconsistent ability to send Ctrl+Alt+Del (from a Mac) via Splashtop, via a Windows PC to the GLRM1- it worked sometimes from the hotkey toolkit but not all of the time - and it is quite hard from windows recovery to restart the computer - but I did manage to find a way.
Anyway after an hour of so I managed to figure out the issue with the broken PC and it is all now sorted.
So the KVM has saved me 200 miles of driving (or possibly 400 as I may well have had to bring to PC home to sort out the issue).
So overall very happy with my purchase.
