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?
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? :P
Quote from: Syt on November 21, 2024, 12:22:45 PMIt's not an IBM Thinkpad (or whatever they are called these days), is it? :P
Lenovo Thinkpad, yes. :(
Thankfully it doesn't happen randomly - just at the start of the day when the laptop has gone to sleep.
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. :(
(https://i.imgur.com/chGFk3z.png)
I now have one of these; works so much better:
(https://i.imgur.com/MxYT0T1.png)
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.
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.