X61 Docking Station USB woes
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:37 pm
I am having a repeated problem with my X61, it's docking station and the USB ports. When USB devices are plugged into the docking station they sometimes work. Most of the time I have to plug them directly into the laptop itself (while it is in the docking station) to get them to work. I just got this machine, I had an X60 with a docking station before and it did exactly the same thing. I have changed the docking station 3 times across the 2 laptops and this has done nothing. I have run system update and downloaded all of the new drivers.
Either there is something wrong with my software configuration - something I carried from the last machine, although I did a clean install in the new machine.
-or-
There is a particular USB device that is causing this problem. I am running some sophisticated hardware - microsoft mouse, and an ibm keyboard.
-or-
There is something wrong with the bios and how it interacts with Windows XP (which I am running).
Has anyone seen anything like this?
Either there is something wrong with my software configuration - something I carried from the last machine, although I did a clean install in the new machine.
-or-
There is a particular USB device that is causing this problem. I am running some sophisticated hardware - microsoft mouse, and an ibm keyboard.
-or-
There is something wrong with the bios and how it interacts with Windows XP (which I am running).
Has anyone seen anything like this?