HP Docking Station Driver

[wisemore]

I’m running Windows Server 2008 R2 on an HP Elitebook 8540 laptop. I recently purchased the HP docking station to go with the laptop. However, when I’m connected to the docking station I lose high video resolution on my external monitor connected to the docking station. It drops it down below 1400×900. HP says the docking station driver does not support Windows Server 2008 R2 only Windows 7 and Vista. Are they any workaround for this?

[halladayrules]

HP dockingstation software uses DisplayLink I believe. Download the driver from them I believe its the same thing as downloading the “HP version” of the driver. I’m not entirely sure though but the by the looks of things that should work. I tried installation on server and it worked fine.

http://www.displaylink.com/support/downloads.php

[wisemore]

No luck. Thanks for the idea though. The site says the driver is just for the USB to video features and for hardware such as a docking station you need to get the driver from the manufacturer. HP has the driver setup so that when it senses Windows Server it stops the install. Any other ideas?

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