E6410 Owner's Thread

I have a weird software problem on my E6410 (sounds idiot)... I tried to install several Dell drivers in Win 7 64, such as the Ricoh SD card driver and the Dell systems software (DSS) utility, the process seems normal but after the installer finishes and the system reboots, nothing happens... Especially the DSS utility, it should have some shortcuts showing up and a folder in program files, but they are not there. Just like nothing installed. What I did notice is that the installer goes straight to the step that initialze file-copying process, without showing a step where you can change settings such as installation location, component, etc. It just says click next to install or back to change settings, but when I click back it just goes back to the inital screen without any settings available to change. Any ideas?

 

The Intel IRST DOES support TRIM on single member RAID drives and drives running in AHCI. It does not support drives in a RAID group, such as two drives in RAID 0.

 

Not sure if anybody noticed but there is a new BIOS out for the E6410 v.A04. It fixes an issue with users using 8GB of RAM (which affects me) and another issue so I put it on, so far no harm done.

 

Does anyone notice that if you go into the BIOS and stay there for a while, the computer would get really hot. It seems to run at full speed or something when you are in the BIOS. Mine is i7 with Nvidia GPU.

 

Just downloaded and applied this myself about 10 mins ago. So far so good. I wasn't having any issues to begin with, though. Has anybody actually experienced the issues they described?

 

I wouldn't say the touchpad is horrible. It's okay, not as good as the one in Thinkpad T-series, but it's far from horrible. If you want to know what horrible mean, try HP mini series touchpad. That's truly horrible.

 

Yup... like every computer on this planet.

 

I don't remember my old Fujitsu Lifebook P1120 w/ Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 w/ 800MHz CPU does that. I remember it was running a lot cooler than Intel counterpart.

 

Oh really?
Not only your old CPU is only 800 MHz but also single core. It produces much less heat. Looking at the detail CPU specs, it's not even a true x86 processor, and looking at the specs, this is very very weak processor in term of performance (for it's time). It max power consumption is 6W, while your Core i7 is 35W.

Now, to this add:
- North bridge
- South bridge
- and, GPU.

When you go in the BIOS, the system is halted. All the UI that you see and menu's are all generated by the BIOS chip itself. In the BIOS menu, your CPU and other processors does nothing. So nothing that they can't execute any power saving features. In fact, it needs an OS to manage this. That is correct, and OS, such as Windows, is more than just pretty interface... it manage your processes, memory, peripherals, hardware, and much more. In fact the interface is actually a very very small portion of an OS. Maybe 10% (estimate).

 

No, I think theres a hardware problem with my touchpad, its that bad. Its nearly unusable, I cant even scroll accurately to close windows and such..