E6520 Owner's Thread

I have one glitch that bothers me right now. When using the touch pad sometimes when I move the curser to type in a open or partially used box then tap to start the curser blinking so I can type it doesn't work. I have to use any of the enter buttons to start. Not all the time just sometimes. I can't seem to figure out what's triggering it. Never had that problem with my C640 touch pad.

 

a caution for the "fix/enhancement" text from years of owning latitude systems. if the functionality they put in was "supposed" to be there originally, they frequently don't tell you the new adds you get from an upgraded bios.

 

Oh, thank you! You've just sparked some (very cautious) hope. I'll install the BIOS when I get home tonight and see if it makes any difference.

 

Here's hoping.....

 

Thanks, but no dice. Same behavior as before with the CoreStore MV. Maybe someday? I really hope so: the specs on the CoreStore totally blow away the specs for the MyDigitalSSD.

 

As I am typing this, I may have figured out the answer, but when I went to perform a fresh install of windows 7 (wipe all of the dell crap), it error-ed out, saying "windows setup could not configure windows to run on this computer's hardware"

As a guess at a solution, i installed the pre-install SATA driver. am trying again as we speak. (and it appears i was right, so if anyone else has the issue, this is the solution)

My other question stands either way though -- is there a preferred order to installing various drivers? And with regard to the video cards, do i install the integrated one and then the nvidia? just the nvidia?

thanks!

 

Sorry, that was a little unclear - are you saying installing the SSD SATA driver during windows 7 installation allowed for proper recognition & booting from the miniPCIe SSD SATA drive??

 

Sorry. No, I meant I couldn't even install win 7x64 to my normal hard drive (non-ssd) on raid/irrt mode without giving it the driver during install. Although you ask a potentially interesting question. perhaps something like that is needed to install to it. That assumes you can write to it as a hard drive within windows, though. What is the status there?

 

I would use a driver install order similar to what I used for my E6410 reimage:

chipset
oem system
card slot
storage
audio
video
chipset special
lan
security
wlan/wpan/wwan
input
oem special
modem
active management
oem system managers

If two video drivers because of Optimus, I would try installing the Intel one first.

GK

 

I got my new MyDigitalSSD mSATA SSD in today. I went ahead and installed it, and... Nothing. The BIOS doesn't see it, and Windows 7 doesn't see it. The computer does boot, however, unlike when I had the Super Talent CoreStore MV installed.

It's back to the drawing board. I'm going to contact the vendor where I bought this and try a different brand, to see if I have better luck with that.