Video lagging badly on Enhanced Port Replicator

I have an X60 and initially it worked well but now the video is at a crawl, as i type this there is a 1-5 second lag on the words showing up and the mouse is horrible. I have to look at my laptop for real time accuracy and just use the monitor for browsing and reading. Tried plugging the keyboard straight into the PC but that did not change a thing. RUnning Vista. Are there any updates that can fix this?

therjsmiths wrote:
its been a week and i see no one has responded, should i expect anyone at Lenovo to be heloping out.
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While there are a few Lenovo employees roaming around in here helping out on a volunteer basis, this is not an official support channel. Instead, this is designed to be a user-to-user support and discussion forum. You may or may not get an answer directly from one of the Lenovo employees as there are way more of us than them and all of them, even Mark, have full-time jobs doing other things. Hopefully, another forum member who has the same hardware that you have will chime in.
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