I’ve had all af the above problems too with my Belkin F1DD102U KVM switch, first the problem with the keyboard and later also with the flash the tramsmit error.

But,,,,,

I’ve called Belkin and a very nice employee told me to use a laptop to flash the device.
First i didn’t believe him but i tried it although the KVM switch wasn’t working anymore.
Result, the flash did his work and i could connect my keyboard to one of the device ports. Only problem is that i can’t use the Scroll lock button to switch to the other computer.

So, in the end its a good product but it’s a pity Belkin doesn’t flash the product before you buy it.

So let’s describe this consumer nightmare with an analogy: You go out looking for a movie star that can sing (KVM switch that can handle USB, DVI and Audio), You find that there is really only one (The movie you are making has a tight budget) in your price range. So the only actor that makes it through the audition is actually a pig (You realize that the Belkin product doesn’t really work like it’s suppose to right when you hook it up. Mine would occasionally not recognize a USB Keyboard on port 1. So I decided to just hook the keyboard through the accessory USB port provided, but the KVM squeals like a pig when you don’t have either a Mouse or Keyboard in the designated USB port). So in order to make the pig look better, I follow the suggestion to put lipstick on it. (Belkin says that if you use their dandy flash utility to upgrade your firmware, this might fix the problem. I say “might” because the instructions on the site are horrendous. Also, there are no instructions ANYWHERE IN BELKINS DOCUMENTATION on the proper procedure to flash the firmware.) So you put the lipstick on the pig, but the pig is alergic to the lipstick, keels over and goes into a coma. (upon figuring out how to use the flash utility and initiate the flash process, the Flash process fails and now the KVM is totally useless). And then you find out that somebody once said a magic incantation over a pig in a coma and it woke up, so you try that (I read the story where the guy unplugs everything, unpowered then repowered the KVM and then tried the flash and it worked - But it didn’t work for me. I haven’t gotten further than about 1/8 fo the way across the progress bar before the infamous “Tramsmit Error”.) So now I’m stuck with a pig in a coma with smeared lipstick on it’s face. Don’t even ask about mouth to mouth resusitation.

Folks this is really a poor product. I’m going to try their 9-5, M-F tech support tomorrow. We’ll see what they can do…

I knew I was in trouble when the firmware said “traMsmit error” … instead of “traNsmit error”. Come on, give me a break! With software perhaps it would slide, but firmware? That means they didn’t test it for failure, which is scary for a hardware product.

… Plus apparently after the fireware error it did in fact do something cause the beeping “flaw” stopped (see below).

Did you apply the firmware? All that beeping was clearly a design flaw and drove me crazy.

Did you try putting the cover on the back of the unit? I’m not even sure why they bothered!

The only good thing is it looks cool. But I need a KVM that works, not one that looks pretty.

I’m glad to see someone post that actually got it working. I’m going to try another vendor and product. Apparently hooking it up to a MAC is a trick in of itself …