I am very curious whether the Thinkpad advanced dock fans whine as loudly when the ATI X1300LE is plugged in, given its "low power" design. BTW I have been running the Diamond BizView 300 with the RonS "fanless dock" mod for about a month now. Originally I had even cut power to the video card's fan ...

Anecdotally, I can confirm that in an A/B test, I experienced fewer drop-outs/association problems with the Thinkpad a/b/g (Atheros) mini-PCIe, when compared with the Intel 3945ABG. The reported signal strength was also higher, although as someone else pointed out this can be misleading. Mine is not...

Blue screens and general stability problems. Perhaps it's unhappy mixing the nVidia card with the on-board ATI (FireGL 5250).

Have not tried playing with option ROMs/other BIOS settings to try to clear up more address space for the card, in case that's what's causing the issue.

Yes, mine is the same way. What's a little disturbing is that with a CD spinning in the drive, tilting the computer even slightly can produce a nasty noise (which tells me the CD may not be suspended adequately to withstand small movements). No, I don't make it a point to tilt my computer when a CD ...

I believe a modest amount of memory in the 32-bit addresss space can be reclaimed by disabling unneeded option ROMs e.g. the boot-from-LAN support (Intel PXE).

Just wanted to chime in on this truly helpful thread. I have a T60p Widescreen (BIOS 1.01, Mobility FireGL V5250) and what I presume to be the latest build of the Advanced Dock (US, shipped last week from NC). Keep in mind the WS models have a different BIOS versioning lineage, in case that 1.01 loo...