E6410 Owner's Thread

Having the E6410 with an Intel Core i5 560M + Intel Graphics with BIOS A11 (not yet A12), I can't get my laptop to stop throttling the CPU under high load. This has been an issue ever since I had this laptop and so far, I have already gone ahead and replaced the thermal past by AS5 with good results. Under full load, the temps don't reach 80°C anymore but from my observations, it seems that throttling kicks a few minutes after being in the +70°C zone. At that stage, things just start to stutter and I need to wait for the CPU load to come down so things can cool down a bit. As silly as it may sound, I now got ThrottleStop running to force the MP to 14x. This prevents the issue even under high load but I hate to loose this much CPU power. I also altered my Win7 Power Options - Maximum Processor State to 90% so it doesn't kick into Turbo Mode but again without success. No secondary monitor is connected (read that too somewhere), no docking station either, but tilted the backend of the laptop 1 inch from my desk with a ruler so plenty of room to take in fresh air.

Are there any other options to explore which could allow me to unlock the full potential of my laptop without CPU throttling ?

 

Will KVM - remote control (via Intel AMT) works if I have nvidia based gpu?

 

Display flickers on wake from sleep
For the past several months the top and bottom (in particular) of the screen flicker for a minute or two on wake from sleep. Sometimes it presents as thin parallel lines instead of flicker. All drivers and the bios are up to date. I doubt it's hardware. Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

Think I fixed it but not sure why it was happening. I created a new Power Profile in Power Manager and, somehow, it's stopped happening.

 

Anybody tried to run Windows 8 on their E6410? My Latitude E6410 screen (1440x900 - 60Hz - NVidia NVS3100M) is flickering. If I turn off the laptop for 30 minutes and turn it back on, there's no flickering but it eventually start again after 10-15 minutes. The flickering seems more present at the top and bottom of the screen.

I already updated the graphic card drivers, bios, etc. Nothing seems to fix the issue. To prove that it isn't a hardware issue, when I reinstalled Windows 7 I couldn't reproduce the issue.

Am I the only one to experience this?

 

What driver are you using? Try the Dell OEM driver (released last month) or the latest Nvidia driver and see if that helps.

 

I already tried that and no chance: I can still repro.

 

Has anyone had Windows 8 running ok on there laptops?

Since the release preview and RTM if I resume from hibernate occasionally the laptop will just resume to a black screen, sometimes a grey screen. The only fix is to power it off and back on. If you RDP to it in this state, it just says a device attached to the system is not responding. If you look at the event logs there is absolutely nothing indicating what the issue is.

I've tried turning off Speedstep, the laptop is currently using the latest BIOS. It uses Intel Graphics.

 

havent been able to get the taskbar to be transparent

 

I'm on Windows 8 Pro x64 and have no flickering problem (1440x900 and 3100m). I wouldn't be so fast to say there is no hardware problem because I used to have a periodic flickering problem ever 10-15min and on wake from sleep (like no_spitfire). I went through 5 warranty repairs (3x mobo, 2x display, 2x display cable, many other things) until i got a replacement which has absolutely no problems. If you can, try setting display sleep to 10 min, let the display sleep (not system sleep), wait 5 min, and wake it up the screen to see if it flickers. I could always replicate the problem that way.