Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

This is the service manual for your laptop (Latitude E6400).
This manual shows you how to properly change EVERYTHING on your laptop. With manual you can work at the factory of Dell and assemble a system yourself. Nothing is missing!
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/late6400/en/sm/html/index.htm

EXTREME WARNING!
1- Make sure that the laptop is turned off properly, completely unplugged and that the battery is removed.
2- Make SURE you are grounded (earthed). If you are not, then you may shock your system and not feel it and fry your computer. How to get grounded without using any devices? Remove shoes remove static making socks if you have any of such socks. Then open your tap water and wash your wants (well in fact just touching a pipe or the water should discharge you, but clean hands are important too)
3- Have clean hands before operating system.
4- Work on a clean, not dusty environment and on a desk/table.

Happy upgrade!

 

Has anybody installed the new Nvidia driver from the Dell support page? Is it worth it?

 

I've now discovered that I can reach this temperature threshold when compiling a large PDF file. I rolled back to A11 and it uses the same temperature threshold. So A12 isn't worse in that respect, but it is not better. I agree that the threshold is too low.

Yes. Carefully undo that one screw (you do not need to remove it completely) and then slide the base forwards. I use my thumbnails at the joint near the battery to loosen the base.

John

 

this doesn't make a lot of sense, GB. A disabled device in dev manager shouldnt be doing anything at all. You would expect an increase in battery life from disabling devices you arent using. are you sure on this? i keep mine disabled, and anecdotally feel like my battery life has improved.

 

I know it makes no sense at all. I was dam freaking surprised. When I disable it, I was like, why my right side palm rest is hot.. I opened the machine to see what was under... and NOTHING, just the optical drive that is not even where the heat is actually it. I was like this for 2 weeks, and then decide screw that, I re-enable it and the heat magicaly stop short after (after cool-down)

Well try it, see what you get. if your machine feels warmer after several hours of use (like surfing the web + word), then you know where it comes from and how to fix it.

 

Hey, what are you complaining about? You can enable the device AND save power! Win-win!

Seriously now: it's weird as hell, I agree.

On another topic, I recently discovered using I8kfanGUI properly (enabling all that stuff under Options) that my fan is always OFF, not slow as I thought. The noise I hear must be the HDD, which is cool because I will buy an SSD sooner or later!

 

i have warm hands, and always feel that any laptop is too warm, which is why i have an external everything at home. I just reenabled the reader, and will see what i think, although who knows, it may indeed be the case. if we can confirm this, we need to report it to dell, because it means the device isn't properly handling information from the os.

 

on another unrelated note, has anyone installed an intel turbo memory 2.0 (4GB) card, and what do people think about spending 70 bucks on this? Theoretically it should allow the hdd to spin down more, and thus conserve a bit more energy, plus the potential speed increase.

 

This happy E6400 owner is officially upgrading to the X4500 now

Just got this outlet config for $604.67 shipped!

Six hour battery life, here I come...

 

I've never thought to disable that device and I've never had a warm right palm rest.

Wow! They will be giving them away soon.

John