E6410 Owner's Thread

The LED backlights are integrated into the LCD display panel itself so there is likely an issue with the main voltage feeding the panel.

Clarify where exactly you push down on the bottom plate that causes the issue (when the bottom plate is attached).

Does this issue arise when NO bottom plate is attached (remove it with the single screw fastener on the bottom/center)?

Does the issue pop up when the display is opened at any angle or just certain angles? Does moving the display open or almost closed while ON cause the video to snap, click, or flash? If not, I doubt it is the LVDS cable.

To me, it looks like you are pressing down in CD/DVD optical drive area. If this is the case, check the single fastener securing the optical drive to the chassis and make sure it is not shorting to anything or causing a "floating ground" scenario. Likewise, remove that drive and reinsert it to insure proper connection to that SATA port.

Scott-

 

Ok I'll try it one I get home. What does the cable I'm looking for look like?

 

Thanks for this I will do all this once I'm home

 

It doesn't happen exclusively when I press on the cd/dvd drive. I could press anywhere and it goes but it seems to happen most here with the back plate off.

Yes

The angles of the screen don't change anything.

I have removed the DVD drive with the same results

 

bump, can anyone help?

 

I just purchased the Dell E6410 laptop from ebay, it is a very solid one and I discovered the heating problem soon enough after I played around for a while. After doing some research I found this is a very common problem to the Dell E64XX series, as this series still very active and popular in the second hands market, so I would like to write something to share my experience in fixing this problem.
I am sorry, this heating problem for sure had been discussed for a lot and a long time, mine here is just from a new user point of view to this heating problem.

I found the heating issue is mainly due to the Nvidia chip, the temperature of it is very high, this affect the whole as you notice that the copper heat sink is connecting to the CPU and the motherboard chip. Especially for laptop, as usually laptop has problems in ventilation and this problem will become more serious for small footprint laptop like 13.3" and 14" as you can imagine all the things "packed" in a relatively smaller space, the heat for sure will go up. (I have an Acer 18.9" always stay very very cool)

I found several ways or hints that may help:

1. Re-apply thermal paste to CPU, MB chip and Video chip. You will know how to do in youtube, I am using the Noctua NT-H1 very professional, you can get it from Amazon and/or ebay. REMEMBER to whip off the old heat paste no matter on chips or on the heat sink 1st.

2. Vacuum and clear the fan, and the entrance of the fan. And vacuum all the dust you can see in the laptop.

3. Buy a new fan is not a bad idea, it will be about $10-$15.

4. Screw TIGHT the fan, there are 2 screws in fixing the fan, why need to be tight? As these 2 screws also tighten up the heat sink, these 2 screws are closest to the Nvidia chip, this will make sure the chip is in well contacts of the heat sink with heat paste in between.

5. Replace missing rubber stand of the laptop, I found the missing rubber stand (especially the one on the right hand side, close to the fan) will leaving out no space for the inhaling air, that make the ventilation very bad. Another solution is to use laptop cooler, so the laptop is raised up several cm above the table and I can tell you it is a lot cooler than before.

6. Update the bios, the latest one is A16, you can download from Dell web-site. Many second hands dell laptops may be bios locked, so not able to update the bios, even if you got the master password, there are some tricks in there, email me if you really want to know. I am not sure if updating the bios will help, as some in the forum mentioned this, I believe the bios may control all the devices of the laptop in a better way, so I personally believe it may help and no harm give it a try.

7. In the Windows - advanced power settings - Processors power management - system cooling policy, make it Passive; it means it will slow down the processor 1st and then increase the fan speed. In Active mode, it will speed up the fan 1st; by my experience, seems Passive is better for E6410, as sometimes the speeding up of the fan cannot beat the heating up of the chip, if the chip is overheated, it will slow down anyway or come to the worst the laptop will shutdown or reboot. So Passive to me is like more preventive, people dislike it as it seems lost performance, but for i5 CPU and Nvidia 3100, the drop of the performance is hardly noticeable. You can always change it back to Active if you found the system is becoming more stable.

Hope all those can at least give you some ideas about how to fix it, good luck and enjoy your laptop.

Solobenben

 

Thermal pads are needed for larger gaps, such as the ones between the chipset and GPU. If you replaced the thermal pad with thermal grease, it may be barely making contact or not even making contact at all.

 

Hi SoloBenBen, Robin24k.
You both may know what I need to do on my E6410. I had to change the hdd and went fro Windows XP to Vista with a loaned hdd from my dad. my problem is getting wifi conectivity as described below. Any ideas would be appreciated. Was going to upgrade to SSD and 7.1 but won't if this problem cannot be resolved.
Have downloaded the WiFi adpter software via USB and Device Manager says it is running and configured correctly.
However Network connection shows no Wifi networks in the house but more importantly am only Dial-up and broad band (PPoE) as the options for connecting to the internet. Device manager shows my WiFi adpter as working and present, Manage Network connections shows my Wifi adpter as Local Area Connection 2 with status being "Network cable unplugged". Am at a loss what to try.
Any thoughts?

 

Did you reinstall the OS? Never "upgrade" your OS, it creates more problems than solves.

The first thing to try would be to uninstall any network-related software (not only driver packages, but get rid of any OEM connection utilities too). Check Programs and Features first, then go to Device Manager, right-click the device, select uninstall, then check the box to delete the drivers.

When that's done, right-click the computer name (it's at the top) and scan for hardware changes. See if you get a generic driver. If you do, you should at least be able to connect. At this point, you'll want to go to Dell Support, get the latest driver, and install it.

 

Thanks Robin24K.
No success yet. Will look for network controller driver as the wifi driver cannot locate my wifi