Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge

There have been a few other reports of paint problems on these grilles. You might be able to get Dell to make a replacement. However, as shown in the service manual the left grille is part of the palmrest assembly and changing it is a major job with the risk that something else won't be reassembled correctly.

Therefore the easier route is DIY. First try an indelible pen and see how well that lasts. Paint is another option.

John

 

Well if you paint or do something, I don't think Dell will like it, and believe you did something accidental, and charge you for the part, I believe.

I would still go with the palm rest replacement, despite risking of having something else broken. Beside if something else breaks (or scratch) and the replacement was not successful (and it's not something small), Dell should re-build your system (I don't know about outlet system). Yes, you can swamp HDD's between your old and new system to avoid a system re-install.
The up side of the replacement is that you will get a new battery

 

im with GB on this. if you care THAT much about a little bit of chipped paint..... just make dell replace it, replacing the palm rest on this machine is a SERIOUS pain, and it is very easy to snap the TINY pieces of plastic that keep it in place at the corners (i did it once, but fortunately the piece wasn't necessary, and the dell tech did it once too).

 

Interestingly enough, I've never seen the paint chip off the speakers, just on the screen bezel.

 

woke up this morning to the best email.... Your laptop has been shipped

 

Any of you hear a high pitch noise from the middle of your keyboard on the E6400? I've read that some people can hear it from meters away. Mine isn't that bad, but I was wondering if all of these had a faint high pitch noise.

Dell's sending a technician on-site to take a look and possibly replace the motherboard, but if this is a normal condition then I'd rather not have them mess around with the system (if you know what I mean).

 

This is the test of how good your hearing is in a quiet room. This problem is not the laptop, it's affect ALL, without exception, laptop featuring a Intel CPU. It is the power system technology of the CPU by Intel (required device for Intel CPU's), which on the motherboard. Intel denies the problem, despite having an uncountable number of complaints.

Changing your motherboard will not help one bit. To solve the problem is to either change your power Option mode in Vista/Win7, or turn on Bluetooth card which uses the CPU, which prevents the components from vibrating by having a change in voltage and stop producing this high pitch sound, or have a program that runs which uses the CPU at least 1%. Or, get a laptop with an AMD CPU.

In my case, under Windows 7, when I set the power option to Balance or PowerMizer, the problem is gone.

 

Anybody else having issues with the IDT Audio driver using Windows 7 RTM? It always fails and freezes on my laptop without explanation...I've opted back to using the default MS drivers, but they sound x10 worse...

 

No issues with the audio using the Vista 64 bit drivers provided by Dell on Win 7 Professional 64. Instead I'm having video issues with the Vista 64 drivers on Dell. The Windows 7 drivers that you can download from Intel don't tap the full potential of the LED screens for some reason.

 

No issue on video and audio. They works perfectly here under Windows 7 RC 64-bit.