Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge, Part 2

Is the Intel Q9000 Quad Core still not compatible with the E6400?

I know due to the bios issue it was not available initially. I looked into some revisions, but no explicit mention..

Did anyone try with the latest bios or know whether it is not compatible or not?

Looks like I will be using the E6400 for at least 2 more years as I have no faith in the designs of the next Latitude line. Ordered a SSD, but really need a snappier processor.

 

The problem with Dell, is that laptop and desktop market share is shrinking, and as using the web and typing text doesn't require more computational power, it doesn't provide any incentive for individuals to go buy a new system, as they want to buy a new phone, and wait for their system to break. This leads in Dell getting less revenue, and that is really not good news for investors. In order to stay afloat, the company needs to continuously provide increase profits, reaching goals isn't goo enough, they must surpass them. And how do you this? Simple, cut cut cut cut. Get aged old design or terrible designers probably and most likely outsourced, cut on service, cut on build quality, cut on engineering, and a BIG cut on innovation. R&D is a money pit.. a black hole. Companies need it to stay relevant and alive and even be successful, but it sucks money with little return during the year. So all that in combination makes sales go down as people aren't interested in Dell products anymore. This is why Dell wanted to drop (possibly sale their PC decision) and focus on Enterprise services instead to stay profitable and sustainable, or at least this is what Dell wanted to do at first. Now Dell, wants to go private. If it goes private it can stop pleasing investors as they are none, and accept losses for a a year or two, as it tries to regain public trust higher quality and better products and take risks. If Dell goes private, the next Dell product will also be disappointed.. I'll you that right now, as all the work being done has already been done by the time the companies goes private, and restructure and reorganizes itself. But the following products should be, assuming Dell doesn't pull out of the PC manufacturing market and decide to innovate, be better in every way. If it works, Dell could take large junks of HP, Toshiba, Acer and others. As the market is smaller now than before, it will be much harder for the competitors to fight for their market share, and who know.. we might get some sort of competition again.

 

Uhhh so is Q9000 compatible? LOL

 

It's not. I tried it before.

EDIT: No, I have not tried it with the latest BIOS, but I can basically guarantee you it never will be compatible.

T9900 is the best you can do.

Dunno if you can use X9100 or take advantage of the unlocked multi.

 

Thanks for letting me know.

I guess two years down the road I'm "upgrading" to M2400. LOL

So on top of technology now.

Darn the bad design Dell.

 

hi together,

i bought a used E6400 and all is fine exept one thing:

My intern SD-card Reader shows no funktion.
I flashed the actual Bios a32.
Installed Win7 pro x64. All is o.k. exept card-reader.
Installed Win8 pro x64. All is o.k. exept card-reader.

Installed both OS and drivers in the order, many times proposed.
There are no problems shown in device manager.
Ricoh SD/MMC Host Controller under IDE ATA...
SDA-Standart... under SD-Hostadapter.

But if i insert SD or SDHC, nothing happens.
Cause i read this problem many times in web, i don´t think it is a hardware-problem.

Please tell me what to to.

bye,
thegrobi

 

Make sure that the power mode is NOT "maximum battery life" as that would actually disable SD slot, CD drive, etc

I am assuming that you tested it with ac adapter plugged in, which means the SD slot should still work even with maximum batter life setting.

It is recognized, but not actually working.

It could be a hardware problem or some debris inside the slot. SD slot does not require any actual driver to work. You can fresh install the OS and it should still work right out without any drivers.

Contact that guy you bought off from.

 

Thanks for answer.

It was maximum battery, but now highest power. Took the battery out. Still no recognition.

´Recognized by devicemanager, course win8 installed a driver. But card are not recognized.

You are shure? I ask, course so much users have the same problem with the ricoh sd-reader, if you search in google for ricoh sd/mmc

He will tell me, that it worked before, for getting no problems.

bye.
thegrobi

 

On Win7 and Win8 i don´t get the SD-Reader to work.
I wish to test, if is a hardwaredefekt.

The original OS was Win Vista Buisiness, but not on the Dell, when i bought it (used).
If somebody can give me the restore-data from partition or CD, i can put the laptop in factory, only to see, if SD works.
Cause i only want to test this for 5 Minutes, i don´t wish to bye a Recovery-DVD.

Would be nice, if somebody can give me a link to download.
It is legal, cause i have a vista license and 30 Days is also possible for testing.

bye,
thegrobi

 

What are you looking for, a factory image, or just a Vista ISO? The Vista ISO should be fairly easy to get, but the factory image...