E6520 Owner's Thread

Hi,

I had asked a Dell technician if i could connect a ssd boot disk.
He told me that there is a m-sata slot for this reason.
After all, i bought a m-sata Dell 28GC8 SSDR,64G,S3,2.5,Ultra Thin,Lite-on,VGH LET-64M2S which of course does not fit into the above slot.....!

Any idea how to use this ssd drive?

Thank you

 

Hi All,

Been a while since I've been on the forums, but I'm in need of some help.

My NVIDIA card (4200M) has stopped being willing to upclock to maximum settings, and is stuck in powersaving mode. No amount of attempting to force it into high clocks has worked. I've tried connecting an external monitor, disabling optimus and forcing a few HD youtube videos to play, running burn test with furmark and GPU stress with OCCT. Consequently, game performance and anything that requires the graphics card is badly screwed.

I originally assumed this was a problem with my driver or with windows 8, so I did a clean install back to win7 and still am experiencing the problem with the latest nvidia driver from dell (and on the latest driver directly available from nvidia).

Any advice would be appreciated, as the computer fell out of warranty three months ago, and I'd really rather not spring for 430 bucks to put it back under.

Thoughts??

 

reinstall nvidia graphics drivers with a hdmi TV connected, should then install the HDMI audio stuff

 

New A16 BIOS out:

Fixes & Enhancements
Fixes/Enhancements
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1. Addressed long delay before Pre-Windows Login with Full Disk Encryption (FDE) Hard Drives in AHCI mode
2. Addressed IDE-R issue in ATA and AHCI mode.
3. Addressed no external video during POST with some external monitors.
4. Updated to the 75.19.6A.01.02 version of the nVidia VBIOS.

 

Hey all,
I am giving this 6520 to my sis.
I was wondering few things.

What bios mode to keep ?
Its currently in legacy mode.
Do we get any power saving advantage if we switch to uefi ?

What is default setting for this ?
I forgot it.
Sorry.

Thanks.
Its still running a07 bios. Do we upgrade to a16 ?
Recommended ??

 

INTEL Intel GMA HD 4000

Fixes & Enhancements

Latest Windows 7 64-bit driver for platforms based on Intel GMA HD, HD 2000/2500/3000/4000

- Addresses certain ISV apps that had issues with their low-end viewers in previous drivers

Note: re-aligns revision for all plarforms, revision skips forward to A10.
Predecessor A-rev for systems with HD, HD 2000/3000 was A09 for Windows 7

Predecessor A-rev for systems with HD, HD 2000/2500/3000/4000 was A02 for Windows 7

 

What information on that product says you can use it on a Latitude E6520? I only see Optiplex 160.

Try the driver version you had before all this mess started? Or start using the Dell-validated ones?

Legacy was the default on mine. Not sure if it'll do anything power-wise.

I updated my E6420 from A08 to A15 recently, no weird issues thus far.

 

Appreciate the response. Turns out it was a hardware problem. A motherboard replacement solved the clocking issues.

 

anyone experience battery failure yet?

 

I was actually wondering about it too.
Every time I boot I get an alert that battery performance is reduced. I wonder if my Gold Technical Support includes the battery.