Hello,

I tried connecting the Lenovo yoga 530 to a lenovo thinkpad docking station, but it seems the displayports and hdmi ports are not working.

The ubs ports are working. The light on the docking station changes from yellow to white.

Kindly assist

Best Regards,

Shadrack

Welcome to the community!

Please share the complete machine type/model number (MTM) of your system and the model of your dock. (Please don't reveal your system serial number here.) Note that if the USB-C ports on your Yoga system are data-only — that is, if they don't provide DisplayPort video and power delivery — then dock-based video and charging won't work for you in this combination. The Yoga 530 machine types I can find (530-14IKB and 530-14ARR) have a data-only USB-C port.

The model type is 530-14ARR. 

How can I resolve this issue?

How can I resolve this issue?

I guess that depends what you're trying to accomplish. As I mentioned, the USB-C port on this system doesn't support video or power delivery, so those functions of the dock won't work with it. The 2019-2020 compatibility matrix shows no docks supported with any Yoga systems including this one. So except for operating as a USB hub, the dock doesn't really work with this laptop. Most "USB-C" docks with video outputs are like this one: they depend on a port that supports DisplayPort Alt Mode video and (usually) power delivery, even though they don't say so.

You really can't get away from connecting the power adapter to the laptop's power port. However if you want to connect to external USB peripherals and monitor(s) from a single port, there are USB-based docks available. They emulate a graphics device in software and send the (compressed) video as data over the USB connection. Lenovo has one dock (that I know of) that does this, the ThinkPad Hybrid USB-C with USB-A dock, but it's probably overkill with its 135W power adapter since it can't power your laptop. The docks shown here use the same DisplayLink graphics technology as the Lenovo dock. (The graphics performance may not be the same as connecting to a monitor via your laptop's HDMI port, but it depends what you're looking for.) I'm sorry the DisplayLink page I linked to is for US sales, but I hope it gives you some ideas. 

Thanks for the quick response.

I tried to use the USB-C to USB-A,  and plugged the USB-A male part to my laptop, but I got the same results. I don't know if there is special USB-C to USB-A

video or power adapter can be bought.

Beside, I dont know get the Lenovo hybrid USB-C to USB-A dock station  will help in this case. 

What are you trying to accomplish here? To connect an external monitor? Other peripherals?

Yes. Try to connect the lenovo yoga 530 14ARRR to dock station so i can connect several monitors to it. I tried establishing a  connection using the usb-c and USB-a ports, but i get message that says display option is limited. 

A member of the community suggested the hybrid usb-c and usb-a dock station, but i don't know if it will work since i have tried both ports on the laptop.

OK, let's try again. Here, from the spec, is the info on the USB ports in your system.

Two USB 3.1 Gen 1 (one Always On), one USB 3.1 Type-C Gen 1

Note: no power delivery, no graphics support built-in. The USB-C port's capabilities are the same as the USB-A ports.

Here are the graphics capabilities:

AMD Radeon Vega 3, Vega 8, or RX Vega 10 Graphics in processor only;
supports external digital monitor via HDMI;
supports dual independent display;
Max resolution: 4096x2160@24Hz (HDMI)

The Radeon graphics processor supports only two independent displays: the built-in display, and one monitor connected to the HDMI port. That's all. This is why your dock isn't working, and why Lenovo doesn't support any docks with this system.

If you want to connect multiple monitors, what may work for you is a dock that uses a virtual graphics processor like DisplayLink. This comes with a special driver that creates a second graphics processor in software, and sends video data over *any* USB port to a DisplayLink dock. Check out the docks on this page; several of them support multiple monitors. These all use DisplayLink, so they bypass the limitations of your laptop's graphics and USB. They do tax your laptop's memory and CPU more than its native graphics would, and they're not suitable for some uses like gaming. None of them can charge your laptop either, because it doesn't support USB-C power delivery;  you'd still need your AC adapter PLUS a power supply for the dock.

I mentioned the Lenovo hybrid dock because it's the only Lenovo dock that uses DisplayLink. It may be overkill because it comes with a big power supply that's intended to power the dock and charge a laptop via USB-C power delivery, but your laptop doesn't have that. This may be true of the other docks on the DisplayLink page though. And again, though the hybrid dock may work, it's not supported here. Support for the other docks would come from the dock vendor.

Does that help explain things?