Question HP Omen Dock Recommendations

Jul 19, 2025
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Hi all, I've done some searching through the forums and came up empty. For several reasons, I'm going laptop only for a couple of years. I enjoy gaming in my spare time, so earlier in the week, I bought an HP Omen Max 16 with AMD AI 9 HX and a 5080 GPU. I have a triple monitor set up, so today I went with what my local Best Buy had in stock for a dock, it's a J5 product, not the highest end, but at almost $200, I didn't think I cheaped out either. I've tried to do some research on docks both before and after buying, but never could find anything that said yes one product will work or no another one won't. Therefore, I assumed it would work, but on hooking everything up, HDMI x2 and DVI x1, it only shows a picture on one of the HDMI connections, the DVI connection looks like it's there in the Windows display settings, but the actual monitor says there isn't a connection. Did I make a bad assumption, and not all docks will work with a given laptop? How do I know what will and what won't work? Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.