Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

If I had the money, I would get a Vertex, probably from the Egg. If you want to run two in RAID 0, you could save some money and get a few Apex instead, a little faster (assuming you're not writing a ton of small files). The Vertex is the drive to get though, and if you can afford two, I will envy you.

 

ok here is what happened to me , i got the new top with the lcd and took out the old one and replaced it then put everything together and turned it on , nothing came out on the screen at all , so i tried it couple of time disconnecting and connecting and nothing happened then i installed the one i had before and was working and now its not working at all , it lights up and some sword of barely visible lines comes out that covers almost 20% of the screen and everything else is white , i hear window vista sounds loading but nothing on the screen , what do i do and what happened? i am scared that my laptop might got ruined.
update : when i hook up an external lcd it work on it and i can see everything but i only see white on the laptop screen

 

Amybe the inverter got fried ?

 

I've had mine for several weeks already. See sig below.

 

Agreed, and very quiet.

 

This is the one where you're installing an RGB display with camera into a 6400 that had an LCD sin camera? I don't really know squat but I'd guess the receipient 6400 went into some kind of serious sounding shock. But I'd also think any damage you might have done is repairable. Everything's repairable in a computer isn't it? A more technical reson is probably to do with software/hardware basic units and it might be the equilivent of trying to put a square peg in a round hole. I'm saying you might need to go deeper into the machine to change out between possibly radically different displays. I'm real interested in how this turns out though and good luck.

 

Can you set it so that you can boot from the e-sata connection? And if you can could I install Vista on an external 320GB drive and have the equilivant of a dual boot system? I have XP on my Samsung 64GBSSD and the second drive, a 320GB 7200rpm Seagate that came with my Covet is full of music and graphic files and my Acronis Secure Zone. Accessing files from the e-sata drive seems as quick as from the E: drive in the computer.

And is there a way to get rid of the RAID and drive screen that comes up in the boot sequence? No reason other than that it's sort of ugly and I have such nice clean boot and logon screens. Going into the F12 menu when I change something I think might get rid or it I'm warned that changing the default might ruin everything.....or might not, they're not that specific.

And lastly, is there anything Dell Control Point does that you can't do some other fairly simple ways? Basically is it just junk or is it useful? I've found a couple of changes I tried to make with it didn't work but the download page has lots of updates I've yet to try and if it's a junk program I could save all that time just uninstalling it. It does have a real nice interface though so I'll wait on your opinions before I decide.

 

1. No, you can't boot from the eSATA (at least I'm fairly sure that you can't).
2. No, the Intel Storage Manager ROM screen cannot be disabled.
3. Everything that DCP does, you can do elsewhere, but like you, I like the pretty interface.

 

Yes, I've been able to boot from an eSATA drive the following OS without any issues:

- Windows XP x64
- Windows Vista x64
- Windows 7 x64
- Ubuntu x64
- OpenSUSE x64
- RedHat x64

 

Well obviously you've tried it a lot, but your list fails to tell me if you tried it on XP x32 of not. Since you apparently are some type of e-sata tester or something I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that you tried it on XP x32 and it wouldn't boot. And all your tested good to go OSs are 64 bit. Do you only test 64 bit or you tried 32 bit systems and they wouldn't boot?

And please, for a halfwit (I'm not a dimwit but far from full witted) exactly how did you get the systems that did boot to do so? There's tons of people here that really know their stuff. I'm just not one of them, but am trying real hard.


Dell Precision M6400 Covet: QX9300, 4GB, 64GB Samsung + 320GB 7200rpm Seagate, XP Pro x32, and the usual Covet stuff.