help form nayone with the advanced dock

I am planning on buying a t61 with dedicated graphics. I am then going to buy a docking station from newegg along with more ram. I saw that the advanced docking station has a pci express slot for another video. This should allow me to power 4 external montiros(planning on only using 3 for now). I called lenovo and the guy said yes it will work. However he gave me the impression that he had no idea what he was talking about. So can anyone confirm that it will work? has anyone done it? What would be a good, cheap card to buy? I wont be gaming at all.

thanks

 

i talked to a different guy who wrote this

http://www.tradersworld.com/computers/ThinkpadT60pwithAdvancedDockingStation1.htm

he claimed that only a few graphics cards will work with it. Is this true? I need to figure this out before i buy my laptop.

sorry for the typing i split my lip up yesterday and had to get 30 stitches in it and am on some pain meds

 

I'm gonna bump your thread because I'm curious about this too. Did you end up buying the Advanced Dock, and are you using multiple DVI displays?

My demands are less rigorous than yours: I just want to do double DVI displays @ 1680x1050 each when I've got my forthcoming ThinkPad docked. Is the Advanced Dock with a PCI-e videocard the only way to accomplish this? What PCI-e card did you buy?

Does the PCI-e card take over when you're docked, or do your two graphics cards work together, or what the hell happens?

This multi-monitor docking stuff is all Greek to me.

 

I did quite a lot of research on this because I wanted to run 3 19 inch lcds just cause I thought itd be sweet.

With windoews xp you can use both grpahics card no problem. With windows vista the 2 card must use the same driver to be able to run together, so the options are drastically limited. The only other possile option for you that I know of is useing a dualhead2go.

 

Yeah, but DualHead2Go has VGA in -- I'm not really interested in that, since it defeats the purpose of having two DVI monitors.

So when you're docked in Vista, are the discrete graphics in your ThinkPad simply disabled?

 

what about the dualhead2go digital edition?

Im not sure if the discrete is disabled or what as I was already turned off from it due to the driver issue

 

Looks like it still feeds your laptop a VGA cable. Even the Advanced Mini-Dock has DVI.

I'm thinking I'm going to give this whole "dual monitors on a docking station" scheme the finger and slumming it with Synergy (laptop and dock on the left, desktop PC on the right). It's not my first choice, but it'll do.