E6410 Owner's Thread

That's no problem. DDR means Double Data Rate or the ability to pass two bits of data per clock cycle. 2 x 533 = 1066.

John

 

Actually replacing the thermal paste should drop the temp by around 5C. I've done it on 9-10 other laptops and desktops.

Yeah, just checked it and my fan is at 2900rpm. As I'm writting this, my CPU is around 48C for Core 0 and 55C for core 2 according to HWMonitor. I'm running A06 bios. My Nvidia GPU is at 60C-63C.

 

Thermal compound is intended to mate the CPU surface to its heatsink surface for maximum heat transfer from the CPU to the heatsink. Thermal compound is not an insulator.

GK

 

Thanks for the info. I've got Intel graphics which will help keep things cooler. The extra heat generated by dedicated graphics is probably keeping the whole cooling system a bit hotter.

John

 

Hi guys, I tried to install Ubuntu 10.10 on it, and it comes up with a black screen, which seems to be a common problem with the Nvidia GPU in the E6410. I want to do the easy dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows 7, is there a fix for the black screen?

 

Google found this. There are various other hits which may give some clues.

John

 

HI All,

Im trying to connect my 6410 to my samsung TV got the video working fine but i cannot get the audio to play, i've got a 3.5mm jack in the laptop and the RCA r+l in the TV?

any idea's?

 

Buy a 3.5mm to RCA cable. Can't be more than 5-10 bucks.

 

Does anyone else have a problem with their e6410 where you get a black or blank screen on resume from Standby/Hibernate on occasion? I can see the HDD light flickering, but I cannot get the display to come up, it just stays black. My video card is the Nvidia 3100M, and I've tried the official dell driver 259.22 as well as Nvidia's latest 260.66 (seems to be worse).

Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

You need to use Dell website video card drivers to get the audio working on the Display Port. Dell doesn't provide the drivers for it separately, and on a quick look, I can't seas to find the setup of that component apart from the video card to extract it. :S

If you are using Dell graphic card (Nvidia or Intel) website drivers and face this issue, then close anything that output audio, and do Start > type: Sound > Select Sound item in the search result. This will open the Sound Control Panel panel.
In it, switch the audio source to the other option and click on Apply, and try to see if you have audio via Display Port. You need to restart your audio/video program each time you perform the switch.

If still on go, then your wire/adapter doesn't carry audio. As Audio is optional on Display Port 1.1 (doesn't exist in 1.0), it could be that the wire doesn't support it or is a Display Port 1.0 cable.