No change whatsoever.įor fun, I updated to Windows 11 and it's even more broken. Used the Lenovo utility to make a bootable USB stick and rebuilt the whole thing - Windows 10 Pro - updated everything. I can't blame them for wanting to do this so that's what I did. Lenovo support wanted me to reimage with the default Lenovo image (I had added it to our domain). Went to the mechanical slider and have a stack of unused TB3 bricks laying around. It could just be me but we run a lot of Lenovo laptops at my office and we've always struggled with the Thunderbolt docking stations to the point we quit buying them for the T480, T490 and T14's. This is so disappointing for how much money this setup cost. OS threw an error about not enough power but runs with the lid down as you'd expect. Works perfectly with a Thunderbolt 3 Gen 1 dock - didn't even reboot - just plugged in the 300W PS from the TB4 unit, plugged in the monitor an TB3 cable to TB port 1 on the X1E and it came up and worked. Ethernet (Intel chipset fwiw) works fine too. Shouldn't this just plug in and work? I remember when the TB3 came out (gen 1) and we got some of those in to deploy with T480's and those were a pain in the ass too but this is far worse than those.Īlso, everything else works - if I plug in the USB cable to my monitor (which my mouse and keyboard plug into), they work just fine. Just baffled at this point and actually opened up ticket with premier support as I'm out of ideas.Īm I missing something really obvious? Is anyone else having issues? I have another dock at work that I can try but I just can't believe the dock itself is bad. Running the out of the box Windows 10 Pro that came installed on the machine. Firmware was updated to 1007 and I have ran the driver update from Lenovo for the dock (which is only available on the universal dock page and not the workstation). The dock is a 40B0 "workstation" model with a 300W power supply and the goofy power/tb4 magnetic combo cable. The only way I can kind of make it work is boot the machine with the lid open and then plug things in after the fact. If I plug everything in and the laptop is off and lid closed (no peripherals - just the display, power and ethernet plugged into the dock) and hit the power button - machine boots - no display output with HDMI or DP. Primary issue is actually driving the external display. I'm at a complete loss as to how things could be this buggy so I'm convinced I'm doing something wrong. It has been nothing short of a shitshow getting this to work and it still doesn't work. To me one of the most basic things you can do. I'm trying to drive a single 4K Dell UltraSharp with the lid closed. ![]() Type=20Y5.Īfter receiving the machine, I ordered a Thunderbolt 4 Workstation dock and just tried hooking it all up for the first time last night. My use-case is IT infra pro running local VM's. ![]() 4K, fastest i7 (there was some obvious reason I didn't get the i9 but I forget) and the 3050 Nvidia card. It's a work machine so pretty well optioned but not quite top spec. Finally got my X1 Extreme G4 after three months of waiting.
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