A couple of weeks ago, a thunderstorm went through and made the lights blink at my house. I've got UPSs on almost everything except my SageTV box. Yep, it wouldn't come back up. 2 beeps at power on and then nothing.
Now this box run headless, no keyboard or display. So I headed upstairs to my parts stash and returned with a display and keyboard.
What I found was that the CPU fan had died. I took it to PC Doctor in Memphis and they diagnosed and replaced the fan for just under $50 in 3 days. Not bad.
But it was a real hassle to drag it out of the desk and hook up the keyboard and display.
I found a D-Link KVM-121 at buy.com for $20 after rebate with free shipping.
It supports not only the keyboard and display but sound.
So now I can readily toggle between SERVER and SageTV. Hopefully I won't ever have to but I can.
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