**VGA DynaDock Question**

I just installed a VGA Dynadock, and all of my peripherals are working fine. Whats wierd is when I click on "undock", I get the undock beep, but I no longer get the message "safe to undock". I do have the appropriate checkboxes in the dynadock settings to display the message, but it does not visually tell me its safe anymore. Any ideas?

It's nothing more than a ferrite bead encased in plastic around the cable end. Google Ferrite Bead and you'll see.
It helps dissipate high frequency "noise". The Best Buy tech is an idiot, so what else is new....
Has nothing absolutely to do with the problem though...

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