E6410 Owner's Thread

Hello, first post around this forum

I don't want to bother most due all great experiences with two E6410 bought near middle 2011. Three years after I felt are the best buy I ever made.

Yesterday I receided my third unit, an used one. I founf it really cheap on a Internet seller and I decided to pik up after few questions. Because here in my Country I never saw this notebook with WXGA over 1280x800 and I never saw one without webcam.

Now I know the seller was not telling me the real specs when I asked for.

So please. Help me. I need to know If I'm right: This notebook did not come without webcam on WXGA+ screens right? all models at 1400x900 comes with webcam by default right?

Thanks in advance.

 

No, it's an option and not necessarily bundled together.

 

In addition to Robin's reply, might I add, it's dead simple to add a webcam. Haven't done a display swap myself, but I assume it should be straightforward as well.

 

Flashed my bios to A16. Failed middle of update. Laptop is bricked. Anyone else have problems with A16? I wouldn't suggest flashing. Looks like the bios recovery mode on the e6410 does nothing. It appears to function but does nothing. This mode is where you hold down the end key and plug the power in. When you see the battery light yellow then let go of end key. It is supposed to read the uncompressed bios file off the usb. Pretty stupid of dell. Will be trying to reflash it with a bus pirate and a SOIC 8 pin clip with cable.

 

I'm on A16, didn't have any problems upgrading. Any indication of what or how it failed?

 

he there
i just got now dell latitude E 6410 with NVS 3100m graphic card, with the most update driver from your nvidia.

I connected the laptop via the display port to an Hdmi (input) jack at my Toshiba rv -600 lcd.

Unfortunately, the lcd screen flickers and it is impossible to watch it.

Please help

Thank you

 

Just died mid flash and laptop no longer works. Had it plugged in. Bought a bus pirate and soic clip and intend to reflash the chips. I say chips because it is a dual bios board. Two winbond chips. W25Q32BV and W25Q64BV should be interesting to see if I can actually get it back into a state where I can try flashing again at least.

 

Hello guys, I read trough this topic and found some related information, but not sure how to change ata to ahci on this model on already installed windows xp operating system. Can you please advice?

 

If the windows was installed by Dell then all the drivers are pre-loaded and you can just throw the switch in the BIOS. However, I presume that XP is user-installed in which case this thread is a good starting place.

Basically, you need to get the AHCI driver installed and the correspondent entries into the registry before you make the change in the BIOS.

John

 

So I have a dell E6410(NVS3100 model) and enabled turbo boost but right afterwards I got a black screen on boot and the diagnostic code says CPU fault, does anyone know if theirs a way to reset the bios settings I tried pulling the cmos battery but that did not work(because the settings are in the NVRAM). I updated to A16 right beforehand to fix the screen going in and out and it did but when re-enabling turbo it started doing this, it was on before and A16 turned it off and I turned it back on, then it looks like it failed.

Edit:
Replacing the cpu with a 3 dollar i3 380m reset the bios settings for some reason, then swapped back to the previous cpu and all is fine now.