Hardware Setup; Cable Connections - ATEN CS1964 User Manual

1. Important safety information regarding the placement of this
device is provided on page 39. Please review it before
proceeding.
2. Make sure that power to all the devices you will be installing has
been turned off. You must unplug the power cords of any
computers that have the Keyboard Power On function.

Cable Connections

To set up your installation, refer to the installation diagram on the following
page (the numbers in the diagram on page 13 correspond to the steps below),
and do the following:
1. Plug your USB keyboard and USB mouse into the USB console ports
located on the unit's rear panel.
2. Plug your monitor(s) into the HDMI console ports located on the unit's
rear panel and power on the monitors.
3. Plug your microphone and speakers into the console microphone and
speaker jacks located on the unit's front panel. Audio cables are required
on the CPU side for this connection to work.
4. Plug your microphone and speakers into the audio console ports located on
the unit's rear panel. The microphone and speakers plugged into the front
panel have priority over those plugged into the rear panel.
5. Using the DisplayPort cable, plug the DisplayPort connector into an
available DisplayPort A socket on the KVM port section of the switch
(CPU 1, CPU 2, etc.), then plug the USB 3.0 cable, microphone/speaker
cables into their corresponding sockets. Using another DisplayPort cable,
plug the DisplayPort cable connector into the DisplayPort socket B in the
same KVM port section of the switch. Repeat for DisplayPort socket C.
6. At the other end of the cables from step 5, plug the microphone/speaker
cables into their respective ports on the computer.

Hardware Setup

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