E6410 Owner's Thread

Because that is the reaction of everyone when they compare a high-end monitor to a low-end one.
People tend to not notice an increase in quality or speed of something, but when they compare back with what they had before, as soon as they get used to what they have now, they see the huge gap.

Also, the Dell U2410 is an IPS panel. I have it at home. Amazing monitor for the price. You can know it's an IPS panel without looking at the specs sheet by looking at the image characteristic. IPS panels show backlight bleeding on dark colors and black. The way it turns the LCD liquid in the pixel allows the backlight to pass through. It's most visible on all 4 corners. PVA panels is the contrary, it affects light and white. Also, if you get a low end PVA panel, they are polarized, so that makes it give a pink tint when looking at blacks at an angle.

This is getting a bit complicated. Not in term of explaining, just to thinking about it. Let me try and simply this. The backlight alters the colors. But also the TN panel does as well. As the TN panel can only produce 6-bit colors, just so that it looks good in store shelf, the manufactures tend to calibrate ti to be good at 1 colors, like green or red or blue. So you have a mess of color calibration.

Using a color calibrator will help, but there is no cure. The only fix, is to use a color processor to start off, like some TN panel on desktop world, and use a high end CFL lamp (which consume a lot of power, or produce a lot of heat, and takes a lot of space, let alone the heatsink for the color processor), to start getting a good colors.

The latitude E6400/E6410/E6500/E6510 uses different screen every time. Mine is an LG. It was concluded on this forum that the LG was the best choice in term of colors. From my observation, LG goes like many other laptop screen monitors and calibrate at a balanced level so that all colors are just as good/crappy, and not focus on a color.

You can call Dell and have your screen replaced saying that the colors are totally wrong. And hope that you have LG. I don't think you can request the LG model. I think you'll get wtv they have in stock, but nothing stops you from asking.

As TN uses low-end LCD liquid to reduce cost to minimum (as that is what the TN panels are aimed at.. ridiculously inexpensive monitors), to try and bring up vivid colors, and nicer black, they use glossy screen instead of a anti-glare screen infront. The more glossy the screen, the better the image (ever wonder why the Mac screen is more a mirror than a monitor?!, THAT is why). Glossy screen reduces the light from diffusing, so you have better colors. Your Dell U2410 uses a high grade LCD liquid, so that is why (well it's not the ONLY reason, you have the light dispersion technology, color processor, CFL lamp, and the panel itself it able to achieve stunning colors with the anti-glare screen (it's also LIGHT scratch resistance, which is always nice, if you have people that can't stop poking your monitor with their nails. Hence why you have a more textured screen than the laptop screen).

In my opinion, I prefer to sacrifice some colors and getting a screen I perfectly view it no mater where I am, then nicer colors and better blacks, at the cost of a reflective screen. I have my desktop monitor if I want/need real, proper color accuracy. I was able to minor edit pictures fine with my LG screen on my Lat. E6400, not bad at all. But then again, I am no professional where I need color accuracy. I just enjoy colors, and I am picky about it. Also, I like my games to looks awesome.

 

Quick Question Hopefully, I love this thread. I have just gotten an E6410 and every so often, I am experiencing a problem resuming from sleep or hibernation. The keyboard lights up, and I can see the number lock light and Wi-Fi light, but no screen. I don't hear the HD spinning either. Everything works perfectly fine from boot. I ran memcheck, and don't see any problem with either of my 4gb ram sticks (8gb total). Any suggestions?

I have a 7200rpm hard drive and Windows 7 64-bit.

 

Are all your drivers and BIOS up-to-date? Which GPU?

I've had a couple of hangs when hibernating during the past month but can't find any systematic reason.

John

 

Yeah Current BIOS... I upgraded from A04 to A05 with no help. I have the NVS 3100M GPU. I am going to try to decrease my paging file to see if for some reason that is what is having the trouble, but I can't see why it would help.

 

page file has nothing to do with your problem.

Get the latest drivers from Nvidia. Here is a direct link to the latest drivers. Be sure to check the box in the setup to perform a clean install.
Direct link: Win7 64-bit: NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.63 BETA

Once done, restart your computer, and things should be better.

Also, Win7 has a diagnostic tool on the sleep:
Use PowerCfg in Windows 7 to Evaluate Power Efficiency - How-To Geek

Be sure that you have the latest Dell Control Panel and Intel chipset drivers, as well. I recall having a similar problem, when I was using Win7 public Beta.

 

And update on the E6410 that I sent in for work, here is what they replaced:

CPU
Fan
Heat Sink
MLB
OS Restore

So far it works like a charm, but I am noticing that all of the Dell software is missing including quickset, etc. So I will have to reinstall that but overall its working well.

Also due to the recommendations in this thread I updating the BIOS and audio drivers on the machine that I use and it has eliminated 99% of the audio issues I have had.

Thanks!

 

Hey guys, I have my E6410 coming today and my vertex 2 SSD is on its way too. What do I need to do to get it to run in AHCI mode?

 

Enter the BIOS using F2 on boot and switch the SATA mode to AHCI. The factory image should have driver support, but if you install the OS on your new drive, you will need to install the Intel driver, either pre-OS during the OS install (my preference), or update the Win7 default MS driver afterward via Device Manager. You can extract the Intel drivers from the drivers-only package available from Dell and from Intel sites... no IRST app included nor required.

GK

 

I'll be installing Win 7 fresh on a blank SSD, I'll be pulling the stock HD out right away and installing the SSD and doing a clean install. Is there any benefit to installing the intel driver during the OS install vs doing it afterwards? I'm assuming that it will first be set to IDE before I install the driver?

 

Dell ships the BIOS SATA set to IRRT, which is AHCI + IRRT. IRRT is a mirroring technology using external storage, and requires the IRST app to be installed in Windows. You can skip it, IRRT and the IRST app install, if you do not intend to use it. So, just switch the BIOS SATA to AHCI before installing the OS.

Since Win7 has a default storage driver for your system, you can skip the pre-OS install of the Intel driver and install it afterward via Device Manager. However, it's very easy to pre-OS install the Intel driver in the first place and be done with it instead of 2-stepping through the Win7 driver you don't want. Plus, it's educational... extract the Intel drivers-only package to a USB thumb drive and you're ready to install the AHCI device driver from there at the beginning of the OS install... just select the option to load a driver... the storage driver, point to the USB drive, and Windows will do the rest.

GK