I have a dell Latitude that after a reformat and reinstall (Win XP) will not boot at all in the docking station. On its own it is fine. Things i am going to try are BIOS flash and chipset driver reinstall. Just in case that doesn't work does anyone else out there have any other ideas that i might have overlooked?
Oh and we have a metric A$$ ton of the new Intel Macs that we have to format and get out the thier prospective users. So i put windows on one and guess what, it ran windows way better than the fastest PC that we have here in the office. if anyone wants the specs i can post them, untill then i have to run around again and do some work. :laugh: :laugh:
Can you suspend the laptop then dock it? XP will usually install drivers for a docking station and update them using Windows Update. It's been a while back but it seems that the last Dell docking station I had came with a drivers disk.
I would go on Dells website and look up all the drivers using the service tag number for your laptop. I never really played much with a docking station, but I don't see how the BIOS would have anything to do with it if it worked before the format.
Quote from: LimaXray on April 13, 2006, 06:59:38 AM
I would go on Dells website and look up all the drivers using the service tag number for your laptop. I never really played much with a docking station, but I don't see how the BIOS would have anything to do with it if it worked before the format.
Yeah that was exactly what i was thinking. However a bios update fixed it right up. Not exactly sure why it worked before and not after but I was thinking it was wither that or the chipset drivers. Either way it works now and i hopefully won't have to see that user for a long while :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Thanks for the words guys