Latitude E6510 Owner's Lounge

The number of active processes is not nearly as important as the number of active processes concurrently loading the CPU cores. You may have a dozen tabs open, but (generally speaking), they are not all fully loading a CPU core simultaneously. At any rate, this discussion seems moot as you seem to prefer the 720QM.

I don't see how purchasing from the outlet is a factor. If the laptop is defective, exchange it for another. If Dell won't do that, tell them you want to return it.

It's worth pointing out that as time goes on, the defect can degrade or manifest itself in more significant ways.

Good luck.

 

That is a valid point. But let me throw cost into the mix. No more extra money will be paid here, so considering that, would you still choose a 580m vs a 720QM?

In the process of doing that.

That is the reason for my concern over such a seemingly small issue!

 

Hi I've just picked up a refurbished E6510 and I'm stumped on something. When I took the battery off to have a look underneath I noticed a Sim card in a pc card which slotted toward the back of the machine. I have run the config utility and cannot see what this is linked to. Can anyone tell me what would the Sim card be in and where would it show in Device Manager or in the BIOS.
I would so love to use someone else's bill for a while but won't!
Thanks

 

The SIM card slot, is for these 'internet anywhere' using cellular phone provider data plan. To use it, you need to buy the special card for it, which looks like a wireless card. Without the card, the SIM card slot on the back does nothing.

 

First, I'd like to thank you all for being helpful and patient when answering questions!

Second, I apologize for being technologically stupid.

I have 3 more issues as of late -

1. I seem to lose HDD space every couple of days. Not much, like a gig a week, but I'm kind of curious as to where it's going. I'm in grad school and have pretty long Word assignments/notes going, and I ctrl+s almost automatically every 5 seconds or so. Am I making temp files or some such by doing so?

2. Today when I booted up, I signed in using my fingerprint reader. It still said, "Please swipe your finger or click here to sign in". I simply swiped, then it said,"Preparing your desktop" for a couple minutes, and wouldn't get off of that. I haven't had any other problems since, so I'm wondering if the fprint reader just read my finger wrong and tried to create a new user profile?

3. The laptop's sound kind of 'stutters' occasionally. It's more like a 'burp' (hate using that word), but it'll be playing some sort of audio (video/music) and it'll just 'burp' and keep going. I've looked around and some people have hinted that this is related to DCP. Is this it or is it something else? All drivers are up to date.

Thanks!

 

It's a special RFID/GPS chip which the Dept of Homeland Security and Google use to compile "aggregate data about your interests, preferences, and activities".




J/K.

 

Thanks, the sim card slot does look like it's attached to a card in the laptop. Does anyone have any detail on the configuration? Please and thanks.

 

No that is not it. But many programs, still today, don't give 2 **** about your computer and doesn't clean itself up. Use CCleaner (free): Piriform - Download CCleaner, Defraggler, Recuva, Speccy - Millions of users worldwide! (don't install the toolbar). This programs allows you to quick and easily clea

2. Today when I booted up, I signed in using my fingerprint reader. It still said, "Please swipe your finger or click here to sign in". I simply swiped, then it said,"Preparing your desktop" for a couple minutes, and wouldn't get off of that. I haven't had any other problems since, so I'm wondering if the fprint reader just read my finger wrong and tried to create a new user profile?

3. The laptop's sound kind of 'stutters' occasionally. It's more like a 'burp' (hate using that word), but it'll be playing some sort of audio (video/music) and it'll just 'burp' and keep going. I've looked around and some people have hinted that this is related to DCP. Is this it or is it something else? All drivers are up to date.

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Personally, I would go for the 580M - faster performance when I run one of my single-threaded programs and less power leakage for the rest of the time (I haven't studied the datasheets but the quads must leak more power when on idle because of all those extra transistors).

John

 

No that is not it. But many programs, still today, don't give 2 **** about your computer and doesn't clean itself up. Use CCleaner (free): Piriform - Download CCleaner, Defraggler, Recuva, Speccy - Millions of users worldwide! (don't install the toolbar). This programs allows you to quick and easily clean your computer temp directory (usually the big part), web browser cache (cache limit is an option in your web browser), and other places to clean. This will free up some space.
Another space loss, is every time you install a program or do a Windows update, Windows backups your files and folders, so that you can go back in time on a file, folder, drive, or system to undo a change.
To go back in time on a file or folder, or drive: simply right-click on that item mentioned, select properties, a panel will open. On that panel go under Previous versions tab, and here you can view or restore an older version of that item.

I have no idea, I don't use any security system to log-in other than the traditional password.
Do you have a background in your account. I read once about a Win7 bug, that if you do not have a background, for some reason Windows will try to search for one, so you'll be stuck at "Welcome" screen until it times out (30sec). Microsoft did release a patch... but I wonder maybe, for wtv reason you don't have it, and you'll need to manually get it.

Other than that, check with CCleaner under Tools, for startup programs, and make sure you remove anything you don't need. Like all these "update check"-er, and "speed lunch"-er and well anything that is not Anti-virus, Alps (touchpad/trackpoint), sidebar (Windows 7 desktop gadgets), and Dell System Manager.

It might be a latency issue. Use this (free) check if you have one: http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml. All bars should be green all the time.
The usual fix is to go on Intel web site and get the latest motherboard chip-set of your laptop over there, then once downloaded, uninstall the current one, restart your computer, and install the ones on Intel web site that you downloaded, restart once more your computer, and you should be good.

If not, download from Dell web site the IDT Sound card drivers, uninstall the current one, restart your computer, install the driver again, and restart your computer once more.

If still not, try your graphic drivers. But that should be it after that. I could be a peripheral attached to your computer.. but I doubt it. Most of cases, of what I read, a motherboard driver reinstall/update solved the problem.

Also, if you are under Windows 7 or Vista, be sure that you have your SATA controller to AHCI in the BIOS.