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How to get the D/Dock to work with Vista?

post #1 of 24
7/15/07 at 6:34pm
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I took Vista off about two months ago and would love to put it back on but Dell still has not updated their video card drivers and I am told thats what has to happen to make Vista compatible with Dells D/Dock. Does anyone have the D/Dock working with Vista or have any goo ideas how I could get he D/Dock to work with Vista?

Thanks and hope someone can help.
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post #2 of 24
7/16/07 at 6:08am
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Originally Posted by CStradling24 View Post
I took Vista off about two months ago and would love to put it back on but Dell still has not updated their video card drivers and I am told thats what has to happen to make Vista compatible with Dells D/Dock. Does anyone have the D/Dock working with Vista or have any goo ideas how I could get he D/Dock to work with Vista?

Thanks and hope someone can help.

well shit, that sucks! i have 2 docks and am thinking of upgrading to vista eventually...
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post #3 of 24
7/16/07 at 3:02pm
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post #4 of 24
7/16/07 at 4:22pm
why would the dock depend on the video card driver? just curious
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post #5 of 24
7/16/07 at 8:24pm
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Not exacty sure where i picked that up at, someone told me that

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post #6 of 24
7/16/07 at 8:37pm
My D/Dock works perfectly fine with Vista.
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post #7 of 24
7/16/07 at 10:04pm
i'm not sure why the dock would rely on the video drivers... i would think it would want a SCSI driver or something like that if anything... but then again I don't even have the port to test it with...
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post #8 of 24
7/17/07 at 8:06am
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Grove, do you use multiple monitors?
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post #9 of 24
7/17/07 at 10:24pm
Well, I use the 24" LCD in my sig, but that's the only other monitor.
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post #10 of 24
7/17/07 at 10:41pm
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Every time I dock and undock the displays change and the resolutions go crazy. What drivers are you using for the GPU
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post #11 of 24
7/18/07 at 5:06am
that happens to my m1710 too, when i dock with my 24" and then dock without it in my living room it gets all screwed up, i have to go into the settings and re do it usually... kinda a pain in the ass
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post #12 of 24
7/18/07 at 4:07pm
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Woodstock, that should be an easy fix.

Go into the BIOS and there is a setting that say something like "Let my computer make a separate profile for each dock"

Right now when you dock your computer it sees the docks are similar and uses the same profile. That I would imagine fix your problem. I am using the same dock, same computer, and same monitors. It doesn't even work right with ONE monitor
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post #13 of 24
7/19/07 at 3:00pm
Vista does not support external video cards at this time. It is not a Dell driver issue as the D/Port and D/Dock are seen without a problem by Vista as a docking solution and are fully supported due to the mobility features within the OS.

This is why there are no USB port replicators for Vista machines with a VGA port anymore, because it isn't supported. Right now the new Nvidia external storage uses a dedicated link to the PCIe bus, which Vista doesn't know is external.

As for D/Dock video cards... who really wants to run a damn regular old PCI video card in there anyhow? The video pass-thru from the internal video card works just fine.
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post #14 of 24
7/20/07 at 2:14am
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I am not using an external video card. I am using the Dock simply so I can set my computer on it and all of my devices (printer, scanner, external hd, two monitors, spidf, rf remote) are connected. This saves me a ton of time. My 7950GTX in the XPS drives the monitor. The PCI slot is empty in the dock.
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post #15 of 24
7/20/07 at 3:47am
Well I bought a D/Port right after Dell gave me this XPS m1710 and it works flawlessly in Vista Ultimate.

The only problem I've noticed is that some older programs left running when power save mode goes into effect it triggers a flaw that kicks Aero down to Vista Basic theme. That part is annoying but doesn't have anything to do with the D/Port as it has happened when I was traveling.

Apparently the best I can tell is that it has a problem to do with the Vista performance monitor that still runs checks while in low-power mode which it thinks the video card can't handle Vista Aero because it isn't doing crap because it powers down in laptops while the screen is off.

I think that's about the only problem I've experienced so far, and once I find a workaround I'll be very happy.

So anyhow... drop your system on the D/Dock and have fun man.
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post #16 of 24
7/25/07 at 5:00am
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Woodstock, that should be an easy fix.

Go into the BIOS and there is a setting that say something like "Let my computer make a separate profile for each dock"

Right now when you dock your computer it sees the docks are similar and uses the same profile. That I would imagine fix your problem. I am using the same dock, same computer, and same monitors. It doesn't even work right with ONE monitor
oh, good to know, i will check it out
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post #17 of 24
7/25/07 at 5:02am
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I am not using an external video card. I am using the Dock simply so I can set my computer on it and all of my devices (printer, scanner, external hd, two monitors, spidf, rf remote) are connected. This saves me a ton of time. My 7950GTX in the XPS drives the monitor. The PCI slot is empty in the dock.

is there a pci slot in the dock? wow, i didnt know that
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post #18 of 24
7/25/07 at 3:34pm
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Its a half height PCI
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post #19 of 24
7/25/07 at 10:06pm
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Its a half height PCI

i think i have the base model dock, there doesn't seem to be a spot in mine
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post #20 of 24
7/25/07 at 10:59pm
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Do you have the d/dock, or d/port?
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