I've had this 4 port PS/2 KVM for quite a while now and while I never really noticed it until we had kids, the damn thing is quite loud.
I finally reached my breaking point with it today when I couldn't change over to my Ubuntu machine for fear of waking my sleeping daughter up (yes putting my office next to her room was dumb). So once I was actually able to switch over and shut it down I disconnected it and set off with the goal of making it mute.
Now some models from Belkin have a firmware update that allows you to disable the beep, but of course mine is so old there's just no way. So I did a little exploratory surgery and discovered they hid the single screw that holds this thing togther under the black and silver "Belkin" badge on the top of it. Once I had that undone the thing pretty much fell apart in my hands.
I had to unplug a single wire harness on the left front side of the circuit board, and the select button wiggled away from me and fell out of the chassis. But never mind all that...my prey now lay naked and helpless before the might of my #2 phillips screwdriver and screamin' hot soldering iron.
I simply unscrewed two black screws, and then heated up a solder joint enough to pop it out and give it a good twist away to the side. You could have just cut it off, smashed it, covered it with tape, whatever deviant method the voices tell you in your head. It doesn't matter.
Pure utter bliss now awaits me the next time I need to boot to Vista or Ubuntu. Well....at least in the sense of the KVM that is.
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