E6410 Owner's Thread

I can't say anything about the inverter but had this exact same issue on an E6500 which Dell just sent out a tech with a new LCD assembly which resolved the issue. This occurred in Dallas while I was in Houston so I had nothing to do with it except have the user call Dell.

 

I purchased two E6410's from the Outlet a few weeks ago and so far I am loving the one that I have (upgraded from an old D830). But the second one that I received had some major issues. I could not even get the thing to boot past the Dell screen initially, it would boot then the screen would go white and then shut off. I was finally able to get into Windows and everything seemed to be fine I installed all of the software that our company uses then the next day the same boot to white screen and shut off happened.

Its currently at the depot, hopefully I will be getting it back soon. I swapped the DVD-RW drive out of that unit for the DVD drive mine came with, also I stole its 9 cell battery and replaced it with my 6 cell. Also where is the bluetooth card located on these machines?

Thanks.

 

My latitude e6410 display produces excessive blue tone. Even after calibration letters look too blue. It is especially noticeable if I do search with bing.com as they use a lot of blue fonts.

Is it something should be expected?

Anybody else noticed that?

Appreciate any input

 

As a rule, obvious system faults like failing to boot up properly will not just go away. I would have solved that issue first before continuing to commission a new unit.

Removing the Bluetooth Card per the Dell online manual:

Remove the battery.
Remove the SIM card.
Remove the SD card.
Remove the ExpressCard.
Remove the Smart card.
Remove the hinge covers.
Remove the access panel.
Remove the optical drive.
Remove the hard drive.
Remove the LED cover.
Remove the keyboard.
Remove the coin-cell battery.
Remove the memory.
Remove the WWAN card.
Remove the WLAN card.
Remove the Latitude ON™ Flash/CMG module.
Remove the Fingerprint Reader.
Remove the Heat Sink and Processor Fan.
Remove the screw that secures the Bluetooth card to the computer.

Ouch!

GK

 

Turn off your system, and remove the battery, flip over the laptop, where the bottom face up, put it on a table with a nice, clean, smooth, cloth to not scratch your system lid, and open the access panel (1 screw). In there, towards the top (around the battery area) you will find a small cable with a blue label on it.. a fragile but fairly thick one compared to the rest, make sure it's seated properly. If that does not help, don't touch the system anymore (to not break anything), and contact Dell to get your screen replaced.

 

Which GPU and which display (Device Manager > Monitor >Properties > Details > Hardware Ids)? The Intel GPU driver allows you to separately adjust the primary colours if this gives a more pleasing result. I would expect the Nvidia driver to offer a similar facility.

John

 

Of course, John the Nvidia has that option. They had since the company first GPU, they produce. He said he played with those options already.
It's probably either the LCD that is busted, or the wire that connects the LCD to the video card, or that cable is miss connected.

 

Thanks guys for your responses!

No, it is not as bad to think of a bad display. I would rather think that it might need additional calibration using calorimeter.

Yes, I do have nVidia and I played with settings already. I was able to balance gray which is good. Sorry that I wasn't clear in my post - what I am referring to is exaggerated blue mostly in text, it is just too vivid. Otherwise the panel produces nice clear colorful image. The panel's id is AUO4147.


Thanks,
Mark

 

Are you comparing with a IPS or PVA or CRT monitor?
'cause if that the case the porblem comes down to 2 things:
First, laptop screen, due to there form factor is unable to have the necessary technology to have nice and accurate colors (also needs to consume minimal amount of power, you can crap that color processors), also it's a TN panel... which like all TN panels laptop or desktop, can only output 6-bit colors per channel, and not 8-bit per channel like an IPS, PVA or CRT can. So, you will notice a degradation in color accuracy right there. (The monitor takes 2 color it can produce, and switch between them really fast (up to the speed of the response rate) to try and trick your eyes in seeing the correct color.

Secondly, the monitor uses LED backlit... and true white LED dont' exists today. It's either warm white (light yellow), or blue'ish white.

Some panels uses more blue or or more yellow LED's then others of course...

 

Wow, GoodBytes, you just nailed it down. How did you guess that I am comparing it with my main pc monitors which are high end PVA panels (Dell U2410)?

I see now that degradation in colors is expected, but why it is so obvious on blue, just because of bluish white LED backlit?

Do you think I can improve it with real calibration using Lacie Blue type colorimeter?

I also compared my laptop to someone elses Asus laptop (LCD not LED without non-glare protection). I noticed that mine is much brighter with more colors, but his shows dark tones so much better. Would that be related to LCD/LED or glare/non-glare things?

Thanks again