Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

I've been using the A11 BIOS for over a month and hadn't noticed any specific problems. There has been the occasional lag in response which I have attributed to something, somewhere, being busy and hogging all the resources.

John

 

Same here.

 

Hmmmm....I will have to investigate further then. It might be a combination of the A11 BIOS and my Seagate drive that is causing the problem, I do not know.

 

Thanks again Greg.
I'll most likely flash only 1 system (mine) to A11 this week-end and run it for a week to see how it goes.

 

Hey guys, I've run into a problem with my E6400. The battery won't charge. When I plug the charger in, I get the message:
"Dell ControlPoint System Manager
Your notebook power adapter is not recognized by your Dell notebook. As a result, your power adapter may not provide sufficient power to run the system, your battery will not charge, your system will run slowly. Please insert a 90 watt Dell approved power adapter."

I'm using the adapter I got when I bought the laptop.. so I'm expecting this to be a problem with the software that's not recognizing the adapter, and therefore not allowing me to charge the battery, but I haven't been able to find out what's the problem. I believe I have the current version of CP System installed.

Any help would be appreciated.. I'm running off AC power with 17% power remaining.

 

I'd reinstall ControlPoint, that should fix it and would take less time than troubleshooting.

Greg

 

Agreed, if that doesn't work try this:

- CRITICAL: Turn off the laptop completely (not sleep).
- CRITICAL: Unplug power and remove system battery.
- CRITICAL: discharge (ground) yourself. (You can touch a metal water pipe to discharge you).
- Open the laptop bottom panel, and ensure that this plug #2 is properly connected:

(Dell says it's for the touch screen display.. but that is the ATG model that has that feature, and when I unplug it to see the system can't turn on without battery but the power plug plug-in... so that plug should be the power cable)

If that fails, contact Dell tech support via chat or phone.

 

I also experience the same behavior and cannot locate any specific pattern. The harddrive section shows a gibberish drive (bunch of random letters, symbols, ratio) and the DVD/RW disappears. I'm running XP pro sp3, Intel Matrix version: 8.7.0.1007, BIOS A11.

If I go to the 'Safely Remove Hardware' and 'Stop' the gibberish drive, it disconnects and then the DVD/RW drive reappears. This does not appear to be a physical connection issue. It's a software related issue.

Anyone else experiencing this phenomenon?

 

hehehe....

Did you guy installed Daemond Tool or something like that (virtual optical drive)?
If so, it is NOT the reason for the loss of your real optical dive, but does explain the one with the random characters. The reason is that some software does not beleive in your right to make a backup of their software and decides to makes a black list system for optical drives (to remove the virtual ones) as they don't want their software to run on anything but the real drive. By using random letters/numbers/characters in the name by the virtual drive software, they by-pass this problem.

The drive disappearing issue is extremely common under XP. You can say it's one of those bugs that were never fixed. The same kind lie that one where: when you update XP to a SP it brakes Windows Updates and requires fixing.
It's not a phenomenon, it not the system, it's XP.

 

Maybe so, but I sometimes see my optical drive disappear and I'm running Vista (Ultimate 32 bit if it matters).