Heads up for those playing with T61ps and Advanced Dock GPUs

[bhtooefr]

Just shoved a Quadro FX 570 in my Advanced Dock (turns out, a 1700 would be faster and the same chip, and I might decide to get one anyway). Works fine, using whatever drivers Windows used by default, except for booting - onboard video is corrupted, and if you're set to use the dock video by default, it'll give the symptoms of total GPU failure (black screen and beeping). So, disable defaulting to dock video, and you won't see your ThinkPad logo while booting, but it works fine otherwise.

One thing you'll find is that the fan fouls on the case of the advanced dock, however. So, I have a piece of plastic pushing the card away, far enough that the fan can get intake air. (The ATI reference cooler from the T60 era has the fan far further forward, and that's what the dock is designed around.)

Now to figure out why I can only get 18 Hz on the DVI outputs pushing 1920x2400 each, when the ATI card I had before could push 33 Hz.