E6410 Owner's Thread

My pointing stick is rather buggy. On the stock Windows install, scrolling had issues with jumping around on a page. The stick completely failed to work a couple times and other times just acted plain strange.

A reinstall largely fixed the scrolling issues, but sometimes the pointer jumps to the bottom of the page if I hold down the left mouse button.

 

Intel. Reliability matters. You should know that better than most.

 

For what it's worth I put an OCZ Vertex 2 in mine and no problems, 7.5 experience index.

 

I'm trying to get the fingerprint reader working on my E6410. I know I have one installed because (a) I can see it and (b) the Dell site lists:

1 58F1M Fingerprint Reader, SWIPE, Internal, R/A

in my system configuration.

I want to be able to do what I used to do on my old D630 - login by swiping my right index finger across the reader. However, I've searched everywhere and I can't find the driver and/or utilities that will set this up for me. My OS is 64-bit Windows 7. Has anybody got this working? Does anybody know where the software for this might be?

 

I think the driver is in the Dell ControlPoint Security Drivers package, which you can download from Dell.com. Should have come working on your system though. Have you looked through DCP?

GK

 

having a problem wit my bluetooth

all of a sudden it refuses to pair with any device..it detects all bluetooth devices fine which leads me to think its drver related. I have tried with the default windows app as well as widcomm from the dell site. Same result. help!!

 

I posted a while back about sleep issues, the system would freeze after resuming from sleep.

I have now narrowed it down to the source: the modular drive day, in it I have the WD3200 drive that came with the Dell.

When the drive is plugged in and it resumes from sleep everything is just dandy, then after around 30 seconds I can see a 100% Highest Active Time in Resource Manager for a few second while processes lock up one at a time, then everything except the mouse locks up. After about 20 more seconds everything returns to normal, no issues logged in the Event Viewer nor any diagnostic errors on the drive. Aside from that issue there are no indications the drive is faulty.

I have tried the following: disable Intel Rapid Storage service, change drive to Quick Removal, running WD diagnostics (not the extensive one yet but I don't think it'll show anything), using WDIDLE3 to disable head parking completely. None of these helped, removing the drive helped but I'd prefer to have it working.

One thing I will try is reverting to an older chipset driver.

Edited: Brilliant! I changed the disk controller to another driver also from Intel and it now works!

Here is the driver I selected, if anyone else ever experiences this issue hopefully they can fix it.

 

That's curious that you can select an alternate driver. The A05 pre-OS download from Dell.com I installed 7/10 on Win7x64 supports these Series 5 QM57 chipset AHCI controllers:

- Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) 5 Series 4 Port SATA AHCI Controller
- Intel(R) 5 Series 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller

Unfortunately, I don't have the E6410 here to confirm which driver the Win7 installer selected. No sleep issues but also do not have a HDD in the ODD bay.

I'll find out which driver was installed by default.

GK

 

Indeed, the sleep issue was a direct result of this drive configuration, removing the drive completely eliminated the issue.

I did try to install the official chipset driver from dell (was running the latest intel one) but it didn't seem to actually do anything.
It's worth noting I had this issue even after a complete reinstall, so it's not some fluke.

 

This is a per monitor calibration. Not only they are 3-4 panel manufacture used, but if not from the same batch, the calibration will be completely different.
Beside, it's a TN panel (like all laptops due to it's power efficiency), there is so much you can calibrate with a low-end LCD liquid used, 6-bit color, poor view angle, AND... """"white"""" LED back light (white LED's don't exists... the closets we humans were able to achieve white without costing a kidney is light blue, or light yellow/orange). Yes it makes movies look "theater like", like marketing team of monitor panel says... but this destroy your colors.

You want color accuracy? Get a nice IPS LCD panel, with a high-grade CFL lamp for stunning whites, which features a nice real color processors for pin point color reproduction based on the monitor calibration. Which you plug on your PC via DVI or Display Port (NOT HDMI... HDMI does not assure that the colors from point A to Point B are the same, it's made for TV.. not computer monitors)

Dell has a variety of excellent IPS panel for your money.
You have the Dell U2311H which an excellent entry-IPS panels, which will provide you stunning colors, despite being a 6-bit panel, due to it's kick- AFRC system and color processor. If you enjoy Apple iMacs displays... this is the same range... just not glossy.. so you can actually get your work done.

For the best for your money, and a true 8-bit color panel (8-bit + AFRC panel), with a 10-bit Look Up Table, and even comes pre-color calibrated Adobe RGB and sRGB. The Dell U2410. It's 16:10 (1200p - 1920x1200) wide screen allows very comfortable work area, when you multitask, or require every pixel., all by the same time have plenty of room for room to play 1080p content. The Dell U2410 is THE BEST monitor for your money. And has seizure making colors production for a sub-1k$ non-professional monitor

Of course you have even better and more expensive Dell U2711 and U3011 with much higher resolution, and true 10-bit color panels and same features as the U2410.

What is 6-bit/8-bit colors?
6-bit colors allows you to display 262144 colors (2 to the power 6 * 3 (3 is for the 3 channels the monitor uses, for red, green and blue)), while 8-bit color panel allows you to display 16,777,216 colors (2^8 * 3).
Wait Wait Wait... you said that all TN panels are 6-bit, but the BOX of my TN panel LCD at home CLEARLY state 16.7million colors. You say expressively!
That is where AFRC comes in. AFRC or Active Frame Rate Control, is a system that allows to simulate the display of a color it can't produce. Basically, it takes 2 colors it CAN product from it's pallet of colors, that is close to the real actual color, and switch between them really really really fast (up to the speed of the monitor), in the vein hope to trick you. With a good system, and color processor it can do a very good job, but TN panels. as it's market is aiming people that doesn't seek build quality, or after sale service, have everything cut out... they use a bare bone back light dispersion system for uneven back light illumination (IPS or PVA (another similar LCD panel technology, mostly aims at true graphic professionals, very expensive, but slow.. so not great (but not terrible) for movie watching or gaming) panel, don't all have uniform back light. In fact only really expensive one do, the Dell U series does not, for it's price range, but way better than TN's), PLUS the usage of a bare bone color processor bridge, to just display somewhat the color, without anything assuring the right color... this makes your red car be orange.. your green tree look greenish yellow, and so on, based on the monitor you have, And the awful white LED back light, well adds a bit of blue to every color of your screen. Oh and cheap stand and enclosure, of course. Go to Best Buy or wtv similar store, move the shelf where the monitor is.. see how all the monitors there (all TN panels) will start wobbling like no tomorrow for half an hour. Yes.. pretty cheap.

If you are interested in a nice monitor like the Dell U series, then be quick, because this Q3.... Dell will screw it up like the new Latitude E series...
No more 16:10 models.. every model 30 and 24 inch will be 16:9 (23inch and 27inch are already in 16:9). Which means, weird pixel density, so a less sharp image for those 2 models, AND use LED back light for all models. I am glad I got my Dell U2410. It like so much I got a second one.

Anyway, I can talk a lot about monitors technologies but this is off topic.
In a nut shell:
-> If you want stunning color, do not buy TN panels (of course for laptop you don't have a choice, as IPS and PVA panels consumes WAY to much power)
-> If it says "LED" ANYWHERE, do not buy. As true white LED's don't exists. HOWEVER, again, for laptops is a big PLUS, as LED's consumes much less power than CFL lamps. If is specifically (and not just assume based on the logo), that it state "RGB LED", than this is really good. USUALLY it's better than a high grade CFL lamp, and usually the monitor built-in menu will have options to adjust the back light color. Basically what it is, is red, green and blue LED's put very close together, and scattered everywhere on the back of the screen, to provide you with a nice white color, and is (usually) uniform back light. Sounds expensive? because it is.. you usually see it properly done on the 2000$+ (for a 22 or 24inch) monitors.

-> LED Displays, don't exists... well they do, in reality these are LED monitor:

But the manufacture wants to say is "LED back light display". But it's ok.. marketing team like "LED".. sound futuristic... sounds Star Treky... so wtv it goes... and people buy

Hope this helps for your next monitor purchase.