Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

I'm using win 7 7100 and it's rock solid. only program that doesn't work right is boxee.
also fyi guys the new nvidia notebook drivers that came out yesterday installed on my e6400 fine!

 

Problems i'm having:

I'm playing TFT2 right now at default settings 16:10 1440x900, i've hit a max temp of 91C. Seems a bit high, how is everyone else's?

Also, got a 250GB 7200 RPM HDD, averaging 60.8 MB/sec 18.5ms access time, 45.6 MB/sec burst rate and a CPU usage of 15.8%. CPU usage seems high, and the HDD seems to emit a stuttering or clicking noise. I didn't notice until now, i'm not sure if it was after I tweaked the notebook, which shouldn't affect the noise, or has it been there all this time.

I can't use wPrime. When I try to run it, it says unexpected error; quitting.

I have this Safely Remove Hardware for my optical drive for some reason? This usually pops up for USB flash drives and the sort, but why am I getting this for my optical drive?

 

Chango99 the safely remove hardware thing for your optical drive is perfectly normal. it's because it actually is a removeable drive. there's a little lever on it you can use to pop it out and hot swap it with another drive or modular bay battery etc. not sure about your I/O causing high cpu

 

I know it's removeable, but is it normal to have that icon on my taskbar? Seems rather annoying and odd to have it there.

The high cpu on HD Tune, what would initially cause my CPU to have some high idle processes?

And now, when i plugged in my power brick, i got this message: "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 may run slowly. Please insert a 90 watt Dell approved power adapter."

 

Got the same initial error with wPrime. I ran it in administrator mode and that seems to work.

One thing that I can't seem to do is achieve a discharge rate of 9 - 10 W. I am on power saver mode, disabled optical drive, firewire and media card reader, vista basic mode, 16 bit color and 40 hertz refresh rate. I also disabled indexing. Wireless is on. I still get 11-12 W.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks

 

I'm rather bad at this... I'm already scared having so many software issues.

Where do you look to see discharge rate?

 

Use perfmon. Just type it on the search field of your start menu. Once its up click on Performance Monitor then change the graph to report. After that, right click and then add counters. Just look for battery and add it.

Hope this helps.

 

Got it down to 10-11 W. It looks likes too many tabs on Google chrome has an effect on power consumption. I also closed yahoo messenger. Just to add, screen brightness is at 2 notches from the minimum.

Still open for suggestions or ideas. Thanks again

 

Thanks so far for the help. + rep

So I put lowest settings too with wifi on, i got around 11.55w - 12w, same as you. Also, I just figured out backlit keyboard uses about 1w-1.5w, kind of higher than I expected/wanted.

Have you undervolted and tried any software like vista battery saver?

 

No I haven't. Maybe when the laptop gets lil older. I know everyone is saying that there's little risk to it but I'm not that willing yet . I think the others were able to get 9 W because they have a 5400 rpm hard drive. I'm not sure if that's a big factor though.