Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

Look at the pic for my temps at normal (light) use and indoor temp 22c. (no fan)
When stressed the gpu can reach 95c and the fan is then working at full speed (4800rpm).

Im a bit curious, you mentioned before that your intel version never turned the fan on, even under a full stresstest. That seems almost too good to be true, was that really right?

 

Can anyone verify that their trackpoints are LEAST sensitive in the middle?

Or that their webcams flicker when the light is too bright (i think it has something to do with fluoresence, but also the way the webcam seems to adjust brightness)?

Or that their keyboards are not evenly backlit?

I think I'll send them an email tonight!

Thanks for any help!

 

There is only one fan. Perhaps you are hearing the hard drive? That is always emitting a slight noise even during idle.

 

Your temps are about the same as what I have seen in my Nvidia E6400. I have a Seagate 7200 rpm drive, and it makes a noticeable noise that I mistook for the fan. My CPU fan does not always come on.

When I ran the stress test in Everest for about 3 or 4 minutes, the E6400 with the Intel graphics did not have the fan turned on. When I reran the test using Orthos, then the fan turns on. During normal light use, the fan never turns on, the HD is very quiet, and the laptop is much cooler to the touch than the Nvidia equipped one. In fact I like it so much that I just ordered another one with the Intel graphics from Dell Outlet.

 

Yes, that was the HD (Seagate 7200.3 250GB) that sounded like a fan.

 

I think you're just missing a setting in RMClock. I've had my P8400(s) undervolted since day one; I've always been able to use PST and SuperFLM together. Also, I don't think the P8600 can run its cores at different speeds; I don't think this has anything to do with IDA. From what I understand, IDA simply gives you an extra multiplier if you're running a single-threaded application; it doesn't even work usually due to the fact that Windows tends to "throw threads around".

 

When you use RMCLock and undervolt, what core speed do you get in idling? Can you get 800MHz displayed in RMClock's CPU info tab (or in Everest)?

When you disable RMClock, does your core speed drop to 800 MHz?

On the Performance on Demand menu, under P-State transistions, the state with index 0 is greyed out and cannot be selected. Does your allow you to select that state? I guess that may have been the SuperFLM state.

 

Didn't I answer your questions already?

I don't know about the webcam. It might just be that it's crappy. Or has to do with the 50-6Hz flickering fluorescent light and the camera going at different frequency (like pointing a camera at a CRT monitor). That is just a guess.


As for the keyboard, yes it's not evenly light. Like I explain, if they want to do a better job, more LED's are needed... meaning less battery life. The idea is that it does it's job and not consume like a second LCD monitor. Also it has to do with the mechanism that hold the keys in place, I have the Logitech Illuminated Keyboard, and some keys are not evenly lit as well. These keys are the long ones where the key holding system block the light. Nothing can be done, without making a 6 000$ keyboard.

Trackpoint works the same everywhere for me. You can adjust the sensitivity. If that does not help, then something is wrong.. or mine got a manufacture error which makes it work properly See "Touch Check" option in the Dell mouse panel.

 

lol, thanks! Okay, okay i get it I'll shoot em an email. My sisters toshiba and my old one had perfectly backlit keys.

When i put it on 'on' it acts as if its on auto, and if its on auto it acts as if its on auto too, odd.

 

Hidden BSOD's don't exits. Vista drivers are not ties to the kernel (Windows core) anymore. When the driver crash, it has the ability to restart it.
When restarted, Windows informs you of this by a balloon on the system tray. If you did not destroy Windows Vista with crappy tweak tools, it should inform you.

To fix your problem: uninstall the video card driver, restart your computer, and install the latest Dell drivers and restart your computer one more time. If the problem still persists, see Nvidia website or laptopvideo2go.com for the latest non-beta drivers.