KVM switch + Windows 7 creates monitor switching nightmare

I have a 4 port Airlink 101 slim KVM that I attach my home system, a win2k work laptop, and another linux box to.  I wasn't having an issue until I newly installed Windows 7 on my home system. Now, every time I switch to my work laptop or the linux box it resizes my windows to 800x600. I'm pretty sure it's the active EDID scanning (as my KVM is at least 3 years old) that was introduced in Win7.

I don't see why I should have to upgrade hardware to fix a new "feature" that windows 7 introduced that isn't helping me (or apparently most users that don't switch to different monitors without rebooting). It sounds like this is definitely something that needs to have an option to turn off.

Hi, I have a MSI CR610 AMD AthalonII M320 2.1GHz with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 running the semi-operating system Windows 7. I use a generic KVM that does pass EDID data. I am suffering from the same issue as many in that when I am operating in dual montor mode, on switching the KVM to my other lap top running Vista, XP or Linux, Windows 7 forgets that it had a monitor 2 attached and sends everything to monitor one, the laptop's screen. As ablove, no probs with Vista, XP or Linux. I have down loaded latest drivers but still no joy. I also tried the AMD/ATI suggestion above but no joy. I thought I'd add myslef to the long list of users who have had their user experience marred by Windows 7.

Something I have also noticed, once, is that the laptop screen can fail to be recognised after sleep or hibernation having been used  in dual mode with KVM. It happened to me once, fortunately with monitor 2 attached. If I had wander off with the laptop I suspect that I could have been stuck, screenless.

This thread has some good information in it as I am experiencing similar issues since moving from RC.

I have an ATEN MasterView CS-1744 KVM hooked to my Nvidia GF 8500 GT . I went through drivers/firmwares/BIOS updates, but the issue remains. Upon returning the KVM to the Win 7 machine, one monitor gets 'lost'. The quickest 'fix' for this issue when it occurs is to hit 'Win+P' (Windows Key + P) to bring up the projector menu. Selecting 'Extend' (it is already selected for me) and hitting 'Enter' miraculously brings my second monitor back.

EDIT: This is definitely driver related for me. I was having other issues with Windows 7 x64, so I formatted and installed Win7 x32. I noticed right away that this issue was gone, then during the windows update process, it came back. I tried a myriad of solutions, and one solved it. Rolling back my video card drivers. This removed the NVIDIA Control Panel and now both of my monitors are there when I use my KVM

I have a nVidia 7900 GS and finally found the drivers that do not exhibit this problem when I switch back-and-forth using my KVM as per this thread:

http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/9295-w7-nvidia-geforce-7xxx-dual-monitor-support.html

The driver version that works for me is 186.18, straight from the nVidia archived drivers download page. You can search their archived drivers here:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

I noticed that microsoft's solution for this is for us to buy new hardware - because its entirely the end users fault for what hardware they own.

Us users should have anticipated this and bought the kvm switches (that did not yet exist) that would have been compatible with windows 7. See it's our fault.

Im very thankful that microsoft has identified the problem as "us".

My only question is, where is the link to get the credit / voucher for the KVM switch upgrade to be redeemed by microsoft? I mean... do they really expect us to go out and pay for one, often for more than the price of the OS itself, just to run the new OS? Really??? that would have to rate up there within the most utterly pathetic examples of a product "upgrade" in the history of humanity. Good job microsoft!!!!