Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

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I'm not sure what their problem is, but it seems like some horrible emulation is going on. So I am just using Python2.5.2, NumPy, and SciPy installed separately. I would rather have 64 bit versions of those, but at least those 32 bit programs are well behaved in Vista 64.

 

Well you should definitely report the issue so that it's fixed as soon as possible.

 

I have a bunch of e6400's here some with a nvidia chip/web cam/blue tooth, some with out.
I'm getting the same random Blue screen error as a lot of you are getting

0x0000008e CI.Dll

It randomly happens on all systems, I thought this might have to do with sysprep. but today I was setting up a e4300 (light weight) it has basically the same chip set as the e6400. Installed Vista off the DVD and loaded all the drivers and updates. On boot up today it blue screened with that same error.

There is something definitely going on and I doubt its hardware since this has happened on over 10 systems already. There are no mini/memory dump files created so Its very hard to trouble shoot whats going on. Any log files I can look at that could help?

 

Did you load the sata drives during the Vista install? I would get random blue screens with out it.

 

Yes, I loaded the Intel SATA AHCI driver, in fact I went to intel's web site and downloaded the newest driver and upgraded them (the dells web site has older ones) Has not fixed the issue

 

If you Google that stop error, you're not alone. Here's a link that discusses ci.dll: blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=154

Perhaps this is a Vista issue made worse by some OEM mis-step. It seems the fault is kernel-related and may falsely implicate RAM. Given you have so many systems to work with... I would install one *very* bare bones and see how it runs... even without all device drivers in place. If no faults, install the next piece and give it some time to fail. Eventually, you may find some part of the base system that is not playing nice with ic.dll.

I would guess that the one fault is software-related and that it is just being installed on your many machines, and then they are all dutifully doing the exact same thing... crashing as instructed.

GK

 

The OEM install of the OS is removed by the partitioning the system, formatting it and installing Vista Enterprise SP1 from the DVD. It is probably a driver, I have all the updated ones from dells site, plus the news ones from intel. Its next to impossible to find out what driver (if any) is causing this.

This is also random, it doesn't happen every time I boot the systems.

 

Try to use the intel driver from Dell's site. I read in another post that another was having issues with the newer driver.

 

I wonder if you could work it backwards... given a faulting machine, start removing non-essential devices/drivers one at a time, rebooting liberally after each removal to see when the fault stops?

GK

 

I started with these drivers, and had the random blue screen's. So I tried intel's newer drivers. Same issue (the new drivers listed that it fixed a bunch of blue screen errors, though it does not say my error)