Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

I haven't been able to get A2DP working with the dell wireless 370 6.2 widcomm drivers.. I noticed when installing the driver it said some devices were connected but the devices were the profiles.. and stereo bluetooth wasn't one of them.. the a2dp headphones work fine with my desktop computer with msi star key 2.0 widdcom 6.0 drivers.. do I have to use different drivers to use a2dp?

 

That's your internal harddrive...the new Intel SATA drivers like to keep reporting that all the time. I get the same pop-up window.

 

^ is there anyway to get rid of it then?

So, to reiterate, I have a couple of problems. So far what I have done is:

• Undervolt (didn't get great results)
• Benchmarks
• Downloaded games
• Downloaded protection software
• Downloaded extra software like VLC, iTunes, AIM, etc.
• Did some minor tweaks. No more HDD indexing...
• Downloaded the latest nvidia driver 185.81, achieved 1777 in 3DMark 06.

Issues i'm having:

• High GPU temps. Maxed at 99C when running PCMark Vantage, 92C on 3DMark06. Playing games like TFT2 and CS:Source I get 90-98C temps.
• Undervolt wasn't that great (anyone have comparisons? P8600)
• Constant message pop up from taskbar: A storage Device was Connected. etc etc. Opens up Intel Matrix Storage Console. The thing is, I didn't do anything. It just automatically pops up.
• Related issue? My optical drive is being recognized as removeable hardware like a USB flash drive, promting the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the task bar. It's rather annoying and I don't see why it's acting as a removeable hardware (although i know it's removeable, I don't want that Safely Remove Hardware on my taskbar)
• 15%+, High CPU usage during HD Tune, maybe high idle usage?

 

Chango:

If you complain to Dell that you have those temperatures, they should offer to replace the motherboard and heatsink. In my case, that didn't help, and last Thursday my case was sent to a senior rep for analysis (Friday was holiday, so I should get an answer tomorrow).

Although these replacements don't seem to help (I am completely baffled by that, they should help), you should let them perform this replacement so you can then ask them to replace the machine if that doesn't fix the problem.

I don't have those constant pop ups. I do have my optical drive in the Safely Remove menu. My idle usage is around 2%.

 

On a new installation, Vista is busy indexing the drive. Of course, that can be turned off.

About that pop-up. Maybe there is a virtual drive somewhere, like an Dameon tools or Virtual Clone Drive program running?

 

No, nothing running, just random pop up of the intel matrix storage device.

 

So I just installed some windows update and can't boot up. I'm doing a system restore now to see if it works.

 

Two things
- 1 -- the optical drive IS a removable drive like a usb flash drive. that is how it operates, and always will. it is intentional.
- 2 -- when you get the message from IMSM is it when going from battery back to A/C because if you are using the battery management maximum settings, it is disabling your cd drive, and therefore is seeing a new drive connected when it re-enables, and this is what causes the pop-up. I get the pop up every time I go from battery->A/C.

 

Correct. Undervolting primarily helps with minimising heat. It brings no benefit at the minimum CPU speed / voltage and actually costs a little CPU time.

You need CPU-z 1.41 or earlier to show the SLFM frequency correctly. I've never figured out why they created a bug in later versions and have never fixed it.

John

 

So, do you think its a waste going through the efforts of undervolting if one was to be on low multiplier most of the time? Even possibly detrimental because of the additional CPU load?