E6410 Owner's Thread

Some third party keyboards have some weird shortcut keys on them.

 

Unlike Windows XP, Vista and Win7 knows what SATA is, and it fully supports it. You don't need to install drivers, unless you have some special SATA controller (usually aimed at servers), which you don't, not even on a pro super high end motherboard or custom builders and computer enthusiasts.
So just hit next.

NOTE: Be sure that the SATA controller is set to AHCI in the BIOS. It's very important. You cannot change it after having Windows installed without being a headache.
IDE mode, is for legacy OS's like XP and older, which don't know what SATA is. And it disables a lot of features of SATA, including TRIM support for SSD's unable to reach max transfer speed, no NCQ support (HDD technology to make things go faster when performing it's tasks). In addition, no eSATA support.

IRRT mode, is Intel RAID setup. As you don't have a RAID setup on your laptop, it's useless to have. Juts causes more potential problems for nothing.

 

That's strange. I had no such issue on E6400 nor E64010, BIOS SATA set to AHCI, and one HDD with all partitions wiped out except the small Dell OEM partition, which should not matter.

No specific error message? Are you letting Win7 format the new partition? Any other funky partitions around?

Perhaps re-download the correct Intel pre-OS SATA driver package for your OS version and try again.

GK

 

Yes it is set to AHCI.

I went ahead and installed without it and updated the driver manually in windows later. However now after installing all drivers in the right order i have

Broadcom USH
PCI Serial Port
PCI Simple Communications Controller
Unknown Device

All yellow in device manager!. I dont know what it is with this E6410 but its a real pain. Any idea what the above 3 are, ignore the Broadcom USH

 

It can be tedious, but you're close to done.

Possibly security devices. The concern here is 'all drivers'. Do you have the odd security devices on your build... readers, tpm/amt/vpro... stuff I avoided?

Did you install the Chipset/Ricoh SD driver?

Phone modem?

GK

 

Yes, had everything you had installed.

To solve it i started installing what i hadnt installed and below is what resolved it. Not sure why it NEEDED the AMT HECI as well. Must be something you dont have on yours but is on this e6410??

PCI Serial Port - AMT driver
PCI Simple Communications Controller - AMT driver
Unknown Device - Freefall Sensor

It appears this notebook also has a CONEXANT_D330-HDA-MDC-V-92-Modem since it took the driver, but i dont see any ports on the back for a modem unless the network port doubles as a modem. Very odd.

 

See here for more details about AMT.

The modem port is at the left side on the back (opposite end to the network port). It is normally blanked off. Check in Device Manager to see if the modem is there.

John

 

Nothing found on Malwarebytes or Spybot, and no external devices. I think notepad opened when I clicked or started typing somewhere, so it wasn't just while idle or something. I didn't open any files, just a blank document.

 

Could it be something like the middle mouse button (= left + ruight button together) being set to open notepad?

John

 

I do not have the security bits on my system, except the Broadcom USH. So, you did not install 'all' of the drivers. And now you have. Perhaps you could have left those drivers off and just disabled the devices in Device Manager. Now that you know, you could reimage again and try leaving them off to minimize your longterm overhead.

Now we know the unknown device is the freefall sensor. Makes sense that Windows could not ID this proprietary hardware by Dell.

The modem connector is on the back right corner opposite the power connector, and may have a plastic port cover installed. The RJ-45 LAN port does not double as the modem port.

GK