D630 Owners Thread

I still run one. The cooling fan died a few weeks back, so I had to take it out of service, but the machine will be open for the first time in roughly 8 years. Going by the hours on the hard drives, it must have close to 35,000 hours and 4000-5000 cycles. Other than replacing the HDD with a SSD, its basically "original".

I run Windows 10 on a D830. Works great. I also upgraded to a 4G LTE WWAN card, an Atheros triple-stream 3x3 AR9380 WiFi card for 450mbit/sec Wifi, and an amplified GPS antenna. I will be upgrading the D630 to Windows 10 when I replace its cooling fan and get it running again.

Yes you can upgrade to 8gb using 4gb DDR2 SODIMMS. Problem is, the economics are really questionable. I poked around eBay, and basically found the cheapest way to acquire 4gb DDR2 SODIMMS was to buy a used "8gb" Latitude E6400 for ~$50, and strip its SODIMMS out. But that may very well be pointless -- why not just run the E6400 instead?

Yup. It'll run.

 

So I successfully installed windows 10 on a sandisk ssd plus on my D630, but it took me two attempts. both were installs of windows 7 which i then upgraded to windows 10. the first time i installed windows 7 the computer was very slow, and the fan was always blowing at max speed. cpu utilization was always at 50% in windows 7. No idea what i did wrong, as all i did was install windows 7, install windows offline updates, then updated to windows 10. The second time I did a fresh format of windows 7, then went out and downloaded the windows 10 installer from the ms website after activation, and everything installed ok. No complaints so far- this machine is still a beast, and since i have the upgraded screen, the resolution on my D630 is better than many of the lower cost laptop options out there today (1366 x 768, yuck!) Hopefully i can use this long enough till the surface pro 3 or 4 come down in price

 

Glad to hear you got 10 working on the D630 - When I was using the preview/insider builds before RTM, it wasn't the best experience.

 

I upgraded to Windows 10 a couple months ago on my D630. It's working great so far.

 

After a few months so far everything is great, but one minor issue- the laptop seems to stutter once per session when i'm navigating between tabs. I can move the mouse cursor around but can't interact with anything on the start menu, web browser, or anything. once it freezes for a good 2 minutes or so it "catches up" and I don't see any other unusual sluggishness. I'm guessing this is some type of disk access or memory access lag, but is it a result of some setting i'm not aware of that needs to be disabled?

This only happens in windows 10. If i'm running off the Mint partition I have no such issue.

 

hmm looks like after the anniversary update for w10 i'm getting random "hard drive not detected" after leaving the system running for an extended period of time.

 

Did you ever get the ATG cover (with LED keyboard lights) working on your d630?

Was it as simple as getting an ATG cover, swapping it out with your d630 standard cover, and plugging the LED keyboard light harness into an available connector? *My biggest concern is, is there a place to plug it in, on a regular d630?

Thanks for any info. I’d like to put the ATG cover on my d630 too, for the ability to light my keyboard in dark areas

Thanks again,

-Miker71