E6410 Owner's Thread

ON reader is in BIOS and is enabled. I can install the application, but cannot install the firmware. I have a tech coming probably Tuesday to replace the display and motherboard due to a display anomoly. I'll see what he knows.

 

It's normal. My idle temps are the same as yours, between 55-65 depending on the current fan speed and whether i'm using aero or not. Using GPU Caps Viewer, i've gotten the max temperature to 96C. Fan is running at max but the system is stable

 

That's good to know. The system seems very stable, but I just wanted to confirm that others are having a similar experience. I can also confirm that the NVIDIA 3100m actually idles in the range of 55°C to 65°C, which very much depends on whether Aero is active.

The system remains stable at all times, but there certainly is no real wiggle room for any overclocking endeavors with this GPU. Still, trying to overclock a card of this caliber would most likely be fruitless. I came from using an NVIDIA 6800 Go, and holding the DirectX revisions and other features equal, the NVIDIA 3100m is roughly equivalent in processing power, though at a smaller power requirement. It still is nice having the dedicated GPU for you need or want the horsepower.

 

Hello, I am trying to install a WWAN card(Seirra MC8781) and my machine doesnt seem to have an inbuilt antennae for it.

1) Does anyone have experience installing WWAN antenna into their laptop?

2) Can I buy an E6400 LCD LED back which has a built in WWAN antennae to replace my stock LED back cover?. Wondering if both the E6400 and E6410 LED LCD back covers are the same in terms of build quality and fit

thanks

 

Every E6410 has the Latitude ON power button, but Latitude ON Flash is no longer offered and the Latitude ON Reader isn't a default option.

Basically, Latitude ON Flash only cost $50, but it was annoying buggy and of very little use. Basically, this is just Dell's version of Splashtop Linux.

My suspicion is that Latitude ON might be on the way out in favor of a dual boot version of Ubuntu 10.10. I guess we'll know for sure this fall.

You can take my word on this, or not. I think I'm one of the few forum posters who actually purchased Latitude ON Flash. I would never buy it again, not that it matters, since it isn't available anymore.

 

Please check with him to see if Intel vPro is integrated into the main board or it's an add-on card. Basically ask him for me to see if it can be removed to save battery.

Thanks

 

Well, there's one IT manager on this board who knows all about Latitude ON. He apparently has disabled Latitude ON in every E6410 in his company.

Considering the small payoff if you manage to get Latitude ON Reader to work, I'd suggest leaving this feature alone.

 

Will do if I am there when he comes. I have a field job and am most often out of the office during the day.

 

Actually you need Latitude Reader & Outlook. If you install Reader alone, it will complain about not Outlook installed.

 

AFAIK there were 3 versions of Latitude ON that were releases ever since the E-series came out:

Latitude ON Reader
Latitude ON Flash
Latitude ON

The reader is what most current-gen E6x10's come with which is basically just a separate partition on your HDD dedicated to this linux-based OS. The only feature "Latitude On Reader" supports is basically opening up your Microsoft Outlook items (emails, calender, etc.) from your Windows Partition for you to "read", no edit/reply capabilities. This is just meant for you to quickly check an email for some info while you are on the go without having to boot into Windows. In my experience though if you have a pretty lean Windows install and especially if you have a SSD booting into Windows is almost just as fast as messing with the Latitude ON Reader. Also, this basic "reader" version still utilized your laptops's CPU, RAM, and HDD so not much battery savings is achieved if any.

Latitude ON (full version) is the most fully featured version and was basically a system on a mini-PCIE card (had its own ARM CPU, RAM, etc.). The E4300's and the new Exx10's have a dedicated Mini-PCIE slot for this module. Since this version was more full-fledged I believe it the main feature of read + write Microsoft Outlook items + basic web-browsing and maybe a media player and skype. Since this module had its own CPU, memory, etc. it offered some battery life savings since you didn't have to turn on the laptops main CPU, RAM, HDD. However, this option was like $150+.

To make a "middle-ground" option for people to save $$ ($150+ for the full-fledged latitude ON was expensive) they made the "Latitude ON Flash" which was its own flash memory on a mini-PCIE card but did not have its own ARM CPU, so it still relied on the CPU of the laptop so not much battery life savings. I don't think this version worked very well so they kinda nixed it.

c14rider I believe the "firmware flash" utility you are trying to run is for the full-fledged Latitude ON or perhaps "Latitude On Flash" modules. If your E6410 has just the basic Latitude ON Reader then there is no chip to flash inside your E6410 so that is the error you are getting. You can check if you have the dedicated Latitude ON chip by opening up your bottom access panel and the right hinge cover (rightside looking with the bottom up) and the dedicated mini-PCIE slot is there. Mine is empty as it just came with the "Latitude ON Reader". I disabled it in BIOS and deleted the partition ASAP as I don't even used Outlook on this machine (my personal one) so Latitude ON Reader is useless to me. It'd be nice if I could map that Latitude ON button to something else like Calculator or something heh.