Latitude E6510 Owner's Lounge

Touchpad and Trackpoint

Got my E6510 today. I feel the track point is rather difficult to use. The response does not seem consistent. I don't know what's the right way to describe the feeling. I have two E6400 at home and the other two machines do not feel that way. It is not too slow or too fast. It seems the "consistency" is the issue - sometimes fast sometimes slow.

Is this a driver issue? My Dell TouchPad version is 7.1007 version dated 6-24-2010. My BIOS is A03.

 

You can confirm your trackpad/trackpoint. See Control Panel > Mouse > click on the Orange trackpad picture.

 

7.1007.101.209

Should I update the BIOS to A05? I only updated the Nvidia driver and Dell Touchpad. I will give it a few days. If I still feel it has the consistency problem, I'll ask Dell to replace the keyboard/trackpoint.

 

I flashed the Bios to A05. I think the fixes Dell describes are my problems. Flashed out no issues. I'll use it for a while and see how that goes.

 

Hello I have a E6510 with Windows 7 Enterprise x64. I am having problems with my Dell Pro2x Docking station it is brand new and it has two Digital ports and one Analog port. I am only able to get one digital and one analog to work for dual monitors. When I fire up the laptop with both digital ports plugged in only one monitor works. I am on Bios A05 and have all the drivers from Intel. Also I have tried it on other Pro2x Docking stations and it has the same problem so I know its not the Docking station. Thanks in advance.
James

 

I finally reinstalled Win7 yesterday afternoon using the DVD that came with the computer. It took about 35 minutes to do the base install, then another 20 or so for it to download and install the O/S updates. I loaded only 3 non-MS drivers: Dell multi-touch touchpad (although I don't use that feature), Dell's download of the Intel WiFi driver and Nvidia's graphics and audio drivers (v258.96). I let everything else install with the defaults, and disabled Bluetooth and the Webcam. Windows Update installed the Intel ethernet driver. I'll be disabling that, too, for now.

After about 8 hours of use (4 or 5 last night after the reinstall plus several more this morning), I'm pretty sure the problem is gone. I haven't seen any pauses in cursor movement, which typically were happening about once per hour.

I'm not going to spend the time to determine which special Dell feature is causing the problem. I have no need whatsoever for most of them, and only a minor desire for a few (like switching to Aero Basic when on battery). I haven't (re)installed Windows Live or XP mode, either. I was somewhat annoyed they weren't included on the DVD. I suppose one of them could be responsible, although it seems unlikely.

 

Well, reinstall is a "big task".

I dismissed the idea of swapping to a 320GB disk. I think 160GB should be sufficient considering I won't be putting media files.

For the trackpoint, I disabled the touchpad and everything works. The previous problem happened when multi-touch was accidentally triggered - very annoying. Since I am a track point user, I'm going to give this configuration a while. But my E6400 doesn't seem to have this issue.

 

The reinstall itself was relatively easy. Except at the beginning and later at the end when it did the first-time-use-setup, it ran unattended. I didn't have to enter a license key or do an activation.

When I wrote that I don't use that trackpad feature, I really meant I don't use either the trackpad or the pointing device. I normally use a 5-button MS IntelliMouse and only use the trackpad in an emergency.

Most of the software that I use doesn't need to be "installed", so it was straightforward to drag the folder containing them all from the system image virtual disk created by Windows Backup to the reinitialized disk. It was similarly easy to copy the two or three folders that I needed from the old user directory. But such is the perversity of life, the download server for one of the packages that I use seems to be unavailable today. (MS Visual Studio 2008 C++ Express)

 

Only 3 non-MS drivers??? You definitely need to install the base device drivers in the proper order, starting with the Intel chipset and Dell system drivers.

On my E6410, I set SATA mode to AHCI in the BIOS and installed these Dell downloads in this order:

1 Chipset Mobile Intel 5 Series (QM57) (plus Ricoh SD driver)
2 Dell System
5 Audio IDT 92HD81B
6 Video NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M
7 Intel Turbo Boost (run setup)
8 LAN Intel 82577LM Gigabit Ethernet
10 WLAN Intel 6300
11 WPAN Dell 375 BT (used custom installer)
13 Touchpad
14 Free Fall Sensor
15 Modem
18 Dell DCP Managers (System Manager only)
19 Dell Webcam Central

Yes, Windows 7 will install in less than 30 minutes, but then it takes about an hour to install devices drivers, and then another hour or so to run MS Updates, and then hours to install and configure security and program apps.

GK

 

GK,

What advantages are provided by the various drivers that you mention?
Please be specific. At the moment, my system seems to be working fine without explicitly loading most of them.

Also, please specify where they can be found. I didn't see anything that could be called an "Intel Turbo Boost", for example. FWIW, the Resource Monitor is showing the CPUs varying between 60% and 115% of "maximum". My understanding is that they should be capable of 2.8 /1.6 = 175% in some circumstances.