Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

IIRC, the March 09 version of the webcam driver, with its "improved" power management, kills suspend. Try disabling the webcam then, if suspend works, look for an older driver.

John

 

since no one has an answer to my annoying problem, is it possible to just disable any throttling of any sort when you want to?

 

you seem to have nailed it. the odd thing is that i could still manually suspend, so the driver isn't hanging, and the monitor turns off properly. ill try a different driver.

and entertainingly, i actually must've been using the default driver, which was dated sometime last year. I replaced it with the march 09 driver, which seems to have solved the suspend problem... anyway, thanks for keying me in to the problem. saved me probably hours.

use RMclock, you can set it, if you really want, to only the top multiplier.

 

Symantec Corporate 11 was preventing my notebook (Vista32) from automatically suspending. I shut down most other processes and figured that was the most likely culprit, so I replaced it with AVG and the auto suspend has worked ever since (4 months now). Well, except for the occasional Windows hiccup that can involve all sorts of strange behavior, but that's easily (if slightly annoying) solved with a system restart.

 

have you upgraded it to the version i posted? the previous versions had known issues, but 4014.26 should have fixed them. Ratsey was right about what caused my problem (it was the webcam driver), although updating to the one he thought caused the problem actually fixed it.

 

How are the hinges on your E6400?

Today I checked mine and although it still feels like it should while opening, when it's open it isn't fixed like it used to be - it has a wobble of about 1cm.

It also seems that the wobble is between the hinges and the cover (when I "wobble" the cover, the hinges don't move).

I've had my E6400 since oct08.

 

Yes, my E6400's hinges have gradually loosened so there is about 1cm of loose play at the top of the screen when open. Other than that looseness, the hinges are stiff with no risk of the display moving by itself. It's not causing me any problem at the moment.

John

 

you can fix that. just take off the covers and tighten the screws on the hinges. there are two screws per hinge -- one on the back, one under it.

 

Yes, but make sure you do this while the laptop screen lid is open in a L shape.
So you want to flip the laptop having the screen on your knees when you set (so that it doesn't fall off if you remove a screw), and the keyboard/palm rest pointing down at the table. I recommend you put a smooth clean cloth on the palm rest so that the desk doesn't scratch it (you never know).

For me, the screen hinge still hold tight. The screen does more about 1cm (using the eye), but it's more the screen that is bending rather than the hinge that is moving.
The screen doesn't wobble (ok, very little for a quick short moment... but, always like this) when you tap it.

But then again, based on other people here, it seams I have a super laptop or a Dell Latitude E6400 Special Edition for Mr. Dell, or that Dell Canada is the only place where the laptop is assemble correctly with no issues

 

No such issues here either (Germany)...