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Hey guys, I was just wondering about getting the advanced dock and putting in a graphics card into the PCI Express slot, to improve on my integrated graphics.
However, the lenovo site says that the Graphics Adapter compatibility does not support my T61, only the T60/T60p. Has anyone been successful in coming up with a way to do this for the T61?

I've used successfully a T61p with the Advanced Dock and a couple of graphics cards:

• - ATI RADEON X1300 XT 256MB PCIe graphics card, and
  - Geforce 7600GT 256 MB PCI-E Graphics Card.

Both with Windows XP.
Now the difference to your setup is that my T61p has a discrete graphics on-board. So I couldn't tell you whether my experiences then also apply to your T61 with integrated graphics.
Here's a guy on ebay who claims that his dock and graphics card work with a T61 and integrated graphics and Vista.

basketb wrote:I've used successfully a T61p with the Advanced Dock and a couple of graphics cards:

• - ATI RADEON X1300 XT 256MB PCIe graphics card, and
  - Geforce 7600GT 256 MB PCI-E Graphics Card.

Both with Windows XP.
Now the difference to your setup is that my T61p has a discrete graphics on-board. So I couldn't tell you whether my experiences then also apply to your T61 with integrated graphics.
Here's a guy on ebay who claims that his dock and graphics card work with a T61 and integrated graphics and Vista.

Thanks for the update, basketb. I've sent you am pm.