E4310 Owner's Lounge

Just curious, if I were to grab a second OCZ vertex SSD & a hard drive caddy from ebay, could I run it in raid 0? Would it be insanely fast or about as fast with a single SSD? Again this is mostly for email, web, listening to music. No real processing (encoding, ripping, etc).

I think it would be fun to try but it could be a huge waste also.

 

I wonder if this is what i am experiencing. Maybe its not lag so much as the touchpad. I am not sure how to tell if its lag or just my initial touch thats causing the laggy mouse movements. It kind of sticks, then jumps which is what I was seeing too.

 

Did you ever figure a way to get the fingerprint reader working without installing the whole security suite?

 

Don't bother. I've tried using it for a week now and it works less than 10% of the time. In the 6 swipes of my index finger that it takes to get it to recognize me, I could have entered in my password 10 times over.

It's a neat toy that I wanted in mine and now I'm ready to remove the Dell software that makes it work, since it's so unreliable.

 

An updated touchpad driver was issued on 16th September. It might fix some issues.

John

 

Yes, since I haven't received mine yet, please let the rest of us know if it fixes the touchpad issue. A crappy touchpad or keyboard are things I can't tolerate, the reason why I sold or returned half of the dozen laptops I've owned in the past year

 

I know this was discussed a few pages back but...

I have the unknown device & I did install the Intel_AMT-HECI_A03_R276871 driver that should have cleared it but its still an unknown device.

Now due to the comments about the slowness of the Control Center Drivers I have not installed it yet. Of course, that could be related to my not installing the drivers.

The keyboard backlite doesnt come on either which is probably also driver related.

Any ideas?

 

Sorry to have my thoughts so scattered. I did a fresh install of 7 ultimate 64 & the touchpad is perfect. No complaints at all. I dont know if it was an old driver or bloatware.

 

The Intel AMT driver is unrelated to ControlPoint, so you'll be fine.

 

I don't have an E4310, so take this with a grain of salt:

A driver is not required for the keyboard backlight. The backlight normally works out of the box. While DCP can enhance the keyboard backlight functionality some, the backlight auto turns on, auto dims, and auto turns off via BIOS, even with no operating system installed. BUT, the keyboard backlight can be disabled via BIOS settings, so check those.

Are you sure your unit is equipped with a keyboard backlight?

The drivers for some security devices (listed as unknown) are installed with the installation of the Dell ControlPoint Security Device Driver Pack.

Unless you plan to use unconventional means to un-throttle your CPU and manage power, you should install the (recently very improved) Dell ControlPoint System Manager.

Unless the laptop is centrally managed in a corporate environment AND the laptop was sold with the Intel vPRO option, you do not need or want the Intel AMT driver. Intel AMT (with the vPRO option) allows the laptop to be managed remotely. Do you want that?

Hope this helps.