Waking my docket laptop from sleep

[Barrister]

Okay, so my employer has given me a laptop with a docking station.  It's a reasonable setup for my needs - it allows me to take a laptop to court when I need, but I still have a keyboard and multi-monitor set-up for in the office.

My issue is this though - frequently at the start of the morning my docking station refuses to wake up.

My "solution" is that I unplug the laptop from the docking station, plug it back in, open the laptop (which wakes everything up) then close the laptop, which leaves just the main monitor on.  But I have to do this 2-3 times per week.

Any ideas?

[Syt]

Had a similar situation with my previous work laptop. Our IT guy couldn't figure out why it happened. Switched cables, docking stations etc. No dice. Kept happening randomly, sometimes while working. I have since gotten a new laptop that's not given me any issues (*knocks on wood*).

It's not an IBM Thinkpad (or whatever they are called these days), is it?