Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

I think I know what you mean, I experienced the same thing. I reduced gamma and brightness in the color settings of the nvidia control panel a bit (just play with the settings till the image feels right).

Btw, when I first received my e6400 I also had a vista experience rating of 3.5. Later I did it again and it was only 3.4.

 

An update on the BSOD issue.

Occasionally it would boot up with no problems and remain stable. Then often, it would BSOD on the green progress bar as Vista initialises. And also in safe mode.

As the system would boot intermittently with no intervention other than repeated attempts (yet occasionally wouldn't even boot in safe mode) – I ran the Dell diagnostics.

It took a LOT of arguing with the Dell representative who believed it was a software error. Even when the diagnostics failed.

I got 'an exception occurred in module video.mdm file LCD.cpp. Line 1046!

Press any key to abort.

Then a screen of errors:
Caused an exception: integer divide by zero.

EAX=00007D0h EBX=00000000h ECX=00000000h EDX=00000000h
ESI=005CCFF0h EDI = 005CC390h etc...

System Error TNT.40025: unexpected processor exception occurred. Exception/interrupt number 000Dh.

Now they think it may be due to RAM and are sending someone to replace it tomorrow.

Anyone brighter than Dell agree or disagree?

 

LOL!

Funny thing is, in my C++ class (we use .cpp files), my professor always tells stories about how programmers screwed the pooch big time. One of them was actually the how the developer left a loophole bug in the code, specifically being him forgetting to catch an exception in the case a division by 0 occured in one of the calculations (n/0 = undefined for .NET, so compiler has no clue what to do).

Indeed sounds like a software issue

 

Finally managed to pull the BSOD on the green progress bar.

It's a 0x0000008e STOP error

CI.dll

 

It's quicker to talk about the times they got it right...

 

could you post a link to the new screen please ?
i see only 2 [1200 & 1440 led]

thank you

Guido

 

can anyone confirm that they either can or cannot see fan sensor information on GPU-Z or have the ability to control cooling profiles on NVIDIA system tools (provided by nvidia) with a 180.xx series driver installed from Laptopvideo2go.com? This is a serious issue, and I want to confirm that it is not specific to my machine.

 

thank you wasabah for the answer - i will give it a try over the weekend.
currently is a lot of drivers to download and install. November seems to be a big month for dell. a lot of new updates via support site - drivers and downloads.

here at my place it takes two days with my current speed of 20kb :-(

does anybody try to assemble a wwan card MR372 in the E6400 ? or
assemble a BT card: Bluetooth W360BT in the E6400

i still have a wwan card from vodafon and a bluetooth W360BT - and would love to take it with me [out of my D430]

Thank you

Guido

 

I have had this happen numerous times now! It will come and go. It takes multiple boots and then will finally run fine for days then start over again!

I have even reinstalled the machine 2 separate times and it came back. It has not come back in 2 weeks now.... Tech Support was no help. I ran separate diagnostics on memory and hd. Everything came back fine.

 

for those who have been getting the BSOD error, have you analyzed the dump file with the windows debugging tools? i found that my repeating BSOD was due to the webcam driver.