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    Help using docking station on SZ48 with vista

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by atlanticdigital, Jul 19, 2007.

  1. atlanticdigital

    atlanticdigital Newbie

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    hey there

    I am hoping you all can assist me as you seem to be using the sz48 the way I would like to. I provide corporate IT support to companies and have just received about 10 sz48's with vista bus, docking station, 20" tft's for their kit.

    Problem I have is that when I boot up the pc in the docking station (by open lid, power on, close lid (I set the close lid to "do nothing" as have done with previous sony's on XP)) the display will not come up on the external monitor until after the user logs in, then it comes up in low res so the user has to change res every time.

    I called sony and they said they were awaiting new drivers from nvidia and we just had to wait.

    Do you guys experience the same issue?

    The docking and booting seems to be sporadic... Basically the users have to dock, open lid, power up, close lid (or wait until it boots), log in on the laptop, then go into nvidia control panel, then set to use the external display, then go into personalize and set the res to 1600x1200. Quite a pain and on previous models with the intel drivers I just set a TFT profile so when they docked it instantly came up on the external, and then they just had to click to select the TFT profile and everything was fine.

    This is kind of annoying for the users.

    Thanks for any help or advice in advance!

    Cheers,
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    atlanticdigital, Jul 19, 2007
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