Customer Reviews

Belkin High Speed Laptop Docking Station

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WHY, OH WHY didn't I take the advice of the other reviewers here. I had high hopes that Belkin has smoothed out the issues with this dock, but alas, I am miserably disappointed. Hooked it up to my new Sony Vaio notebook, followed the directions to a tee and within 5 minutes of installing, this lovely thing gave me the blue screen of death. After searching the internet for a fix and 3 install/uninstalls later, the thing is back in the box on it's way back to Amazon.

If I could rate this ZERO STARS I would. I'm appalled Amazon still sells a project that flat out, doesn't work! I'm so disappointed and will search for other option. <sigh> Thanks alot Belkin.

I have a Dell XPS-1210 laptop, and had nothing but problems with this product. At first look it seemed to be the IDEAL solution, using the PC Express, however the original drivers locked my system up TIGHT. The second set of drivers would not recognize the product. The third set of drivers (for XP) are supposed to alleviate problems with Dell systems, but wiped out my wireless NIC capabilities, and still did not allow the docking station to function. After spending hours online with Belkin they told me they would need to have an "expert" call back, but they could not fix the problem either. I fianlly had to return the product. It is a shame, ir could have been a good solution, but Belkin seems to have created a poor software solution for it, and does not understand how to repair the problems.

Caused blue screen of death on new Toshiba satellite laptop. Two hour's help from Belkin's telephone support failed to fix the problem. I returned it and bought the Toshiba docking station instead, which is what I should have bought in the first place.

I was using the docking station with Vista on a Sony notebook, and hooked a Samsung 22" monitor to the docking station. It worked, but mouse movement was very "laggy". I'm a software developer, and the lag was just incredibly annoying.

I sent a support request to Belkin, and got the incredibly LAME response shown below NINE days later.

I'm returning the unit to Amazon.

Customer Call Details Nov 26 2007 16:56

High Speed Docking Station - running with Vista Business on a Sony SZ series notebook. I have three monitors going: notebook, externea hooked to notebook, and a 22" hooked via DVI to the docking station. The movement of the mouse is "laggy" on the 22" moitor hooked to the docking station. I have your lattest drivers for Vista loaded. I have Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 typically running on the 22" monitor. The Sony notebook is a VGN-SZ430N, with DuoCore 2 MHz processors. Any advice?
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Belkin Response Dec 5 2007 19:39

Thank you for contacting Belkin Technical Support

Good Morning Mr. Bakkom

We understand that you are having an Issue with Your High - Speed Docking Station

Mr. Bakkom

To help you with this Issue, you will need to Provied us more information about your Device

whats the main Problem your having with Your device.

Its showing me that your able to Use Windows Vista with the Computer, but your not able to use Mac with your Device.

F5U265 High-Speed Docking Station

Question
Is the High-Speed Docking Station compatible with a Mac?

Answer
At this time the Apple Mac operationg system is not supported by the High-Speed Docking Station.

if you need any further assistance feel free to write back to us and we will be happy to assist you.

If you have any other questions or problems you may also call us toll free at 800-223-5546(Extn.2263).
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Regards,

David Gonzalez V
Belkin Technical Support

Thank you for choosing Belkin Components.

This was the biggest peice of junk ever! I am now swearing off Belkin.

Pros: Looks cool.

Cons: Incompatible with just about every Vista laptop (tried to install it on 3). Very difficult to install. Support from Belkin is ridiculous. I'm a programmer & Tech, so I finally got it installed on one of my laptops, the video card never worked.

Conclusion: Don't buy this. Research it on the Web 1st. When I purchased it, very few had reviewed it on the Web after purchase, only the main stream media reviewed it and they are too political. Now you will find many bad reviews of this device.

I hate this thing. It's not worth it. As much as a hassle it is to plug everything into my laptop, in the long run, it would be much faster than constantly restarting and getting the dock to play nice.

Follow the instructions carefully and some things work flawlessly like my mouse and keyboard. MY CRT monitor works but the dock's software has changed the resolution of my laptop's widescreen monitor so all my icons are stretched and I need to manually change it everytime I turn on my pc. Oh, and if you put your laptop to hibernate or standby, forget about it. You need to restart.

Other gripes:
- my dvd-rom and memory stick don't work on this dock.
- I have to plug speakers into the dock as it made the speakers on my laptop non-functional.
- My built-in webcam doesn't work either.

The only good thing is that if I don't use the dock, my laptop's sound and video cards return to original configuration. However, my display settings still don't recognize it's a widescreen.

A full day of troubleshooting and re-installing on Vista and can't get it to go. I don't understand how they can get away with selling this item..

purchased a brand new unit and now I realize that it only works on windows XP!!!!!! Come on guys, you list this as a currently available product on your website and don't have drivers for Windows 7.

Belkin should really send money back to all customers

Tried this with my new Asus laptop which has no dock made for it. I needed an adapter for the connection slot because the laptop only came with PCIMA slots. The dock never worked with Vista or XP, and Belkin told me that the dock station was not tested for use with PCIMA adapters, making it useless for anyone with an older laptop I'm afraid. I'm glad to see that others had problems with it too. I took a hit money-wise on this purchase, and will not buy Belkin products again.

Had nothing but headaches with all other OS (XP/Vista), thought I'd try with Windows 7 and it works like a charm. It may be specific to my Dell Inspiron 1501, well worth the wait and frustration since I first bought it over 4 years ago. Just sold my 2nd unopened box of this project and hope it works for them as well.