Latitude E6510 Owner's Lounge

Sadly, refurbished means put into working state. But usually when you get refurbished directly from the manufacture large crazy scratch or scratch scratch or dented parts of a product is replaced.. small scratches (what they call "cosmetic, no mater where they are), are considered a pass. As long as the system works, it all that count.

You can contact Dell and argue on this, or easier if your lucky, try to find any fault with the screen, like a bright area, or a dark area, or several stuck pixels or several dead pixel or something related to the screen and pass that under warranty

But dude, in reality, that is why you pay less... it because you say "I don't care about scratches, and minor cosmetic problems as long as my system function I am happy." when you buy refurbished. Dell, and many (but not all) companies are already nice to replace terrible parts.

 

If you are good @ computer repairs and not to damage anything, maybe an lcd swap is in order if you have not yet shipped the other one back.
First call Dell and just maybe they will take care of you.

 

Can't swap them as this one is the full hd and the other one is the base LCD. I'll try calling them and see what they say (scratch is about 4mm, BTW)

 

Thanks, I tried that method and it works. Just a question though, while setting up custom resol. there was a warning of instability and heat. I understand that this might happen if I try to setup a mode which extends beyond the native resolution that is if the native is 1280X1024 and I am setting up 1600X900.

In my case I have 1920X1080 as native and I am setting up 1600X900 so I am still within the native resolution limits, would this also result in instability and heating?

Thanks!

 

Scratched stock should be clearly sold as "Scratch and Dent". So ask Dell to replace that part.

There may be some additional work for the system in interpolating a 1600 x 900 signal to fit on a 1920 x 1280 display. Give it a try and see if you like the result. I put a 1280 x 800 display on my 1440 x 900 panel to run some benchmarks without adverse effects (except for the degraded display quality).

John

 

The warnings are for analog CRTs. Digital displays (like LCDs) always run at their native resolutions. They have a buffer memory (scaler) which takes in signals of other scanrates and resamples them to the necessary resolution. If the scaler can recognize the incoming signal, that's all that's necessary. All scanrates which are not at the display's native resolution undergo the same process and use the same amount of power.

 

Can anyone help me with the following issue please?

I was testing out some HD video playback on youtube, at 1080p. All the videos seemed to have this random "sideways distortion" at multiple intervals through the videos. This was only in the full screen mode. You could say it looks like that effect in movies when a camera has a loose connection or is about to be disconnected - it shows that horizontal noisy distortion.

I tried downloading full HD samples from one of the HD video forums and none of them give me this issue through VLC player.

I'm going to try out the same in Firefox and see if this issue is repeated there. Also can someone suggest some websites that stream 1080p content?

Thanks.


EDIT: IT doesn't seem to work in Firefox either. I tried some other sites and it does do it but just a flash here and there, unlike youtube where it's considerable. Moreover downloading the same video and watching it through VLC works flawlessly.

I hope this isn't going someplace bad.



EDIT2: I tried connecting an ethernet cable and it seems to have eliminated the distortion considerably. A slight distrotion maybe once in a while will show up momentarily. But on wireless, it is continuous. I am almost convinced this is something to do with the Wireless Router (WRT54G running DD-WRT).

My system is a Dell E6510 i7-720QM, 4GB1333Mhz (but on 32bit win7, so 3.4GB) with nvs 3100m 512MB and an 8Mbps internet connection.

 

In Flash 10.1 videos are now using the GPU to render.
You need to update the latest drivers from Nvidia web site.
NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.63 BETA

 

Thanks for that suggestion but installing a new driver hasn't helped either.

But I think *fingers crossed*, I have it solved. Purely on instinct I went in the Advanced Settings > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > Vertical Sync : Force Off.


That seems to have solved the problem. I am not sure if it's just a matter of chance that I'm not seeing it yet, but on videos I've previously seen it on, it hasn't shown up. Touch wood.

If you do have similar problems with Vertical Distortion on youtube 1080p (full hd) videos in fullscreen mode, please try the above and don't forget to restart your computer.

The reason I'm summarizing is cos this thread shows up a lot in the Google results for the E6510 issues and these keywords may end up helping someone.

EDIT: Never mind, it still shows up. I'm wondering if the fault is with the hardware now.

 

Powerslave, what is your screen refresh rate set to?
I think it's set to 40Hz, instead of 60Hz.