E4310 Owner's Lounge

The CPU is soldered

 

That is sad thing, but thanks for the info.

 

Dell pulled the E4310 for new sales off thier web site last weekend, it's officialy EOL.

 

Welcome to the E4310 Owners' Lounge! A place to liase with other owners and share useful tips/tricks/mods to get the most satisfying user experience from Dell's great ultraportable with an optical drive.

Release date: 12th May 2010



OS, drivers and disassembly

Manuals, Win7 OEM sources : the additional Dell installation contents added to a Win7 CD.

Storage

Second hotswappable HDD/SSD via optical drive bay
Add e-sata: Flush-type expresscard for fast external storage
USB 3.0: add USB 3.0 to a E4310 via it's expresscard slot.
e-sata/usb cable or enclosure, useful for external e-sata storage. Eg: convert optical drive to be external unit

Expansion

DIY eGPU to attach a desktop videocard via expressport. Provides HDMI/DVI and accelerated graphics.

Tweaks + other mods

Manual temperature control via the FN+15324 trick
DC optimize optimize the software configuration to maximize battery life, idling at 5.8W with a HDD!!

Schematic

Download >> Dell Latitude E4310.pdf <<. Block diagram in the spoiler.

Spoiler

Reviews notebookcheck, notebookcheck(short), cnet.co.uk.

E4310 stock benchmarks

CPU	GHZ/BCLK	Win7 WEI	3dmark06	cpumark	wprime 32M	TSbench 32M
i5-560M 2.66/2.93	2.66/133	6.9/5.9/4.5/5.4/5.9	2199	3090.4	17.04	30.78

Overclocking: There is a setPLL .LUT file for the E4310's SLG8SP585 PLL on acerfans.ru courtesty of Motovlad making PLL programming possible.

However, the problem is Dell have the SMBUS component of the PLL wired via the SMS MEC5045 controller, for which no datasheet appears available. Need the program the EC controller to show the PLL on the SMBUS before we can program it using setPLL or setFSB.


So then how does one go about extending the functionality of the E4310 in a cost effective manner? Read on..

Acknowledgements: a cast of many E4310 and other NBR users contributing to this thread. Many thank yous.

 

hey guys,

Need to reinstall everything from scratch on this machine for someone. What is the easiest way to install dell drivers and utilities? The website mentioned in nandos post has had all its media fire links cutt off. The dell website has a long list of driversbut I would really appreciate some shortcut or a simple guide. Windows 7 32 bit installed.

much thanks in advance.

 

Do u know guys if the keyboard of e4300 is technically spill-proof ? specs don't seem to mention that and I am to recommend some used 12-13" to my friend for use in a bar.
for example x61s but damn thing doesn't have a touchpad :/

 

Nope...it doesn't have any holes for liquid to drain through the chassis.

 

Sorry for the double post, but maybe somebody who's subscribed to this thread will see this post earlier than a standalone one:

I have the latest bios and touchpad software.

The touchpad is responsive to one finger, whether it's on the main pad or the scrolling area. However, it's not responsive to two-finger scrolling. It works, but I have to apply pressure, and even then, it's not 100%. I have a E6410 without this problem. I've tried to fiddle with the software.

My question is: Is this a normal thing that can be fixed or is it a bad touchpad?

 

I never got the two-finger scolling working properly, so ended up disabling the feature. I believe it's down to poor drivers but it could also be a hardware limitation

 

I have a 6410 with the same pad and it works well.