E4310 Owner's Lounge

Even the corporate types like us get mass discounts for being loyal customers and ordering the laptops in multi skid truckloads.

 

Think this would work as a caddy (from ebay)?

DELL E4300 E4310 Hard Drive Caddy Kit - eBay (item 350416373828 end time Jan-22-11 07:27:53 PST)

 

PA-12 family
P/N 928G4 or 0928G4 (P/N is in two placed and it's listed with and w/o the 0 on one place)
MODEL LA65NS2-01

That is what is on the back, all of which are D series part numbers, strange.
The part in hand I have is a very generic looking part.

Strange really, the normal 65watt supply was the Manufacturer Part# : Y596G Dell Part# : 330-3003

 

That looks like the standard HD bay cover.

 

This looks like what you need.

2nd HDD / SSD Caddy for DELL Latitude E4200, E4300, E4310 [DELL9-2BE] - $44.00 : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks

 

You have a defective E4310 or something is clogging up the cooling.

My E3410 with i-540m will run docked, fully loaded at 2.66ghz for hours. The heat will get up to the high 80s C and the fan will kick in, but it stays around 80-90 as long as the cpu is loaded. As soon as I take the load off of it, the temp immediately - as in a couple of seconds - goes to the 60s and then to the 50s.

I have tested this with Prime95 while running CPUID HWMonitor and TMonitor to watch clock speeds and Throttlestop to check for throttling. Check page 11 of this thread for all the details I posted before. I would be happy to post a video if you need to see mine running without issues.

Results were the same with a very early E4310 and the second one I bought 3 weeks ago.

What power supply are you running?

I am sorry that you are having these issues and its tough when your first post on these forums is about having problems. Many of us have these machines and your experience is unlike what others have posted for months.

 

I cannot of course refute that perhaps this is the case. What I have noticed is that the fan is very quiet and does not sound like it is doing much, or adjusting to the increased CPU load (though I can hear it). Is this the same for you?

Perhaps my fan is indeed broken..? However, others have obviously suffered from this issue with various Dell laptops as indicated by other posts so while frustrating, I believed it was poor design (sadly quite common these days) rather than defective hardware.

Well, that is an interesting proposition which I will take you up on. In return I will make a video of mine, though I'm pretty stacked up with work at the moment. I have also used Prime 95 and temperatures hit ~100 fairly rapidly followed by downscaling. I generally do not use Windows but results are the same when loading under Linux - the thermal control seems to be entirely governed by the BIOS anyway.

I have a 6-cell battery pack (that sticks out), a power supply for the docking station and a portable supply. Results are the same independent of supply.

Well that is useful feedback. I am sorry too as many seem to be happy. I would be very interested to hear other peoples results as to performance and heat dissipation issues with this model.

If I come across as negative ( ) it is because I have spent about 3 weeks installing and tuning Linux on this machine but unfortunately Dell provide very little support with regards to open source software. If I now return this, I will be faced with having to mess about imaging ~100GB of disk (a base Windows 7 install occupies an incredible ~40GB), and weeks of inconvenience.

In spite of my misery, I am in fact very appreciative of your help!
Cheers.

 

had the same issue with an M2400. longer than 5 mins or so of video transcoding will cause CPU throttling. i lived with this for about 2 yrs (using throttlestop at 75% of the top CPU speed) before finally getting on the phone to a dell CSR who offered to replace the motherboard (and the associated cooling accessories) though he mentioned it was just the once.

the difference was ridiculous. i could transcode for hours now with both cores at 100% and there is NO throttling even when docked.

just call dell. i got the m/b exchange when i mentioned i had similar dell notebooks running the same tasks without the CPU slowing to a crawl after 5 minutes.

get a image of your current linux setup (come on this takes no more than 20 mins). no need to put w7 back on the hdd.

 

OK, thanks, this is sounding more like knackered hardware. An image would take 20 minutes if I had the software to hand however it has been ages and I don't know where to start. The other issue though is that this machine is provided by my organisation so I, unfortunately, cannot pick up the phone - I have to go through local "technical support". I also cannot avoid Windows (uggh) as there are occasions it is a necessary evil. I would be amazed if I'm not out of action for at least 2 weeks, ho hum.

A good pointer on imaging the whole disk would be very useful right now... (my local technical support cannot do this lol)

 

Try Clonezilla.org. Its free, linux & excellent! Download the ISO image, burn it & boot off the CD.