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D610 D-Dock Video card
I have a D610 with the X300 Internal graphics card installed, I wanted to use the D-Dock to power two external LCD screens using a Radeon 9250 PCI card as well as using the Laptop screen as primary. When the external card is install in the D-Dock I get no video output to any of the screens (All are blank). Can I have this type of configuration at all or is there something that I have missed.
sigep741
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April 22nd, 2005 00:00
The Nose
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April 22nd, 2005 08:00
rakh1
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June 2nd, 2005 07:00
I presume you have tried Fn + F8 to switch the screen modes?
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murness
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June 5th, 2005 04:00
Did you ever get this to work?
I had a similar situation Dell Latitude 610 into a D/Dock with an ATI Radeon 7000. I successfully used 3 monitors until about two weeks ago. There were no configuration changes that I could tell. Now it boots to the blank screen and just sits there as you described. I have updated the drivers for both the 7000 and the internal 9000 video card, and tried the flash update for the internal ATI card that dell posted recently, but still no luck.
Thanks,
Mark
The Nose
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June 7th, 2005 11:00
I still can not get this to work..... I have tried the Fn + F8, but to no joy.......
I can't even get the Radeon 9250 installed in the D-Dock with out all the screens going blank...
Alan Broom
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July 20th, 2005 16:00
The workaround that I have come up with is this:
- Undock the laptop
- Turn it on and press F2 to invoke BIOS setup
- QUICKLY redock the laptop while it's still loading the BIOS
- Once in to the BIOS setup screen, press Esc and exit from the BIOS setup.
- W2K will start loading. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del while the white bar is loading on the black screen (if it gets to the 'colour' portion, you've missed your chance. Start again from the top)
- the laptop reboots and voila - two screens working!
But I have to say I'm disheartened to see that others are having this problem, as I was still holding out some hope that it wasn't a universal problem with the D610's. Tell me, do you have the onboard Intel or Radeon videocard on the motherboard?
Alan Broom
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July 20th, 2005 22:00
murness
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July 20th, 2005 22:00
sigep741
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July 20th, 2005 23:00
Alan Broom
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July 20th, 2005 23:00
My D610 has the Intel onboard video card on the motherboard. I can display one external screen thru the vga slot, and the laptop's screen.
I tried a Radeon 9250 as well, it didn't work.
murness
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July 21st, 2005 03:00
Alan,
It was a 64MB PCI Nvidida card. I am not sure of the exact model, but there are not many PCI's in that price range. It was the $60 from a local computer store. I had had no luck with any ATI Cards either. (The 7000 and another 128MB model)
I finally found a post on ATI's site that described a BIOS conflict between the 7000 Radeon and some docking stations so I changed brands. Normally I use ATI's in the PC's that I use, but for some reason they let me down in this case.
Hope that helps,
Mark
(murness)
Alan Broom
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July 21st, 2005 15:00
Alan Broom
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July 21st, 2005 15:00