T42 won't reboot when in dock station

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aghusker · #1 Post by **aghusker** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:12 pm

My T42 hangs up on the intital "IBM" bios screen when rebooting, but only when the t42 is docked. It just started acting like this a month or 2 ago. Before, there were no problems.

Any ideas?
I have the bios version 3.15 installed..

GlobetrotterDoug · #2 Post by **GlobetrotterDoug** » Mon May 23, 2005 9:11 pm

I have had the same problem with my T41. I gave up on using the Dock II and went back to the port replicator. Hope we can find an answer.

Doug

gweibe · #3 Post by **gweibe** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:45 pm

Same problem with a T40p (2373-G3U) and a Port Replicator II.

jtheun · #4 Post by **jtheun** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:34 pm

I have the same problem w my Dock II and my T42P. But I think it only started happening after I tried to install the new BT drivers. I finally went back to the MS BT drivers, but I still have the reboot problem. Basically, the computer starts up, but reboots itself before completely starting up WinXP SP2. It then restarts and I have to boot into Safe Mode.

My current 'fix' for this is to reboot while undocked, and then I dock after Windows XP has started.

I wish I knew how to fix this.

lovepup_98 · #5 Post by **lovepup_98** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:17 pm

Do you have any removable USB devices connected to the ThinkPad or port replicator II? If so, remove the item, system should boot normally.

Peter

jtheun · #6 Post by **jtheun** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:32 pm

well, just the external keyboard (PS) and mouse (USB) and dell monitor... nothing else. Removing these kinda defeats the purpose of the dock.

lovepup_98 · #7 Post by **lovepup_98** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:53 pm

Since the problem just started recently. Have you tried doing a system restore? It sounds like a software issue and not a hardware issue since you are able to boot normally when undocked.

Peter

jtheun · #8 Post by **jtheun** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:17 pm

i actually did that. I did a system restore to the night before the bluetooth escapade. And, strangely enough, it still hung during reboot.

I am not sure what this is. I may try and disconnect the monitor (it has a USB hub in the monitor...) and see what happens. Will post my findings

bt9906 · #9 Post by **bt9906** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:29 am

Any updates on the fix for this issue? I'm having the exact same problem with my T42 + MiniDock.

Thanks.

Alex

jtheun · #10 Post by **jtheun** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:48 pm

I still run into this issue... so sorry, no update from my side.

T42 won't reboot when in dock station

T42 won't reboot when in dock station

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