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?

[Barrister]

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

Lenovo Thinkpad, yes.

Thankfully it doesn't happen randomly - just at the start of the day when the laptop has gone to sleep.

[Syt]

Are you using this kind of docking station? Everyone in my office who used one of those had issues with them at one point or other. I actually resigned myself to just hooking up my laptop to one of my screens and work that way, because ... yeah.




I now have one of these; works so much better:

[Barrister]

Actually, I used to have one like the former, never had this issue.

I now have one that looks identical to the latter, and that's where I have the issue.

[Grey Fox]

This is a long shot.

Go into the network properties for your NIC and under Power Management, tick the Only Allow a magic packet to wake the computer.

Close lid + phantom wake up calls on network might be creating a racing condition that leads to a frozen computer.