Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge, Part 2

I also found this: Latitude E6400 display flickers when brightness is set at lowest level. | Dell US

 

I was wondering .... is it possible to put a D630 display into a E6400 laptop?

 

Yes and no.

There are many different lids, bezels, and display cables for the E6400. There are some parts that are made to support CCFL screens - some early E6400s did indeed ship with CCFL screens. If you have the E6400 hardware to support a CCFL screen, you can use the CCFL screen from a D630, D620, and other Dell 14" laptops of similar vintage.

In some cases the older CCFL screens (from the D630 and before) have little metal pegs at the top of the panel that will prevent them from fitting snugly even if you have E6400 CCFL hardware. You may need to grind those off with a dremel, etc.

If your E6400 doesn't already have the appropriate CCFL hardware, you may need to replace anything from the entire display assembly to just the inverter depending on which lid and display you currently have.

 

Hello All...I have been a lurker for a while, but just signed up for a new account.

I ran intoa problem today with my E6400. I had a Seagate SSD installed for the last 5 months and it worked great. It was a real pain installing it as the computer would not recognize the SSD. Somehow, I got it and all was good. This morning, I boot the computer and it says there is no HD. I tried reloading drivers etc. that I recall doing months ago, but still nothing. Anybody have any idea what the deal is?

I installed a Samsung in my wife's HP computer and it went in great.

 

I found this thread from goodbytes profile and his thread on overclocking the E6400, Im trying to overclock and having a few issues, mainly performance tab crashes when I try to accept the EULA user agreement to get to device settings. I have GeForce drivers installed from a clean install. does anyone have any ideas of what I can do to get this Dell overclocked?

 

Restart the panel, and it should be working. It's also very slow.
If that doesn't work for you: you can also use my software: Nv GPU Pro - Nv GPU Pro Software - Automated GPU Overclock Tool, as an alternative.
It uses Nvidia System Tools (nTunes) directly, and work even if you didn't agree at the license agreement of Nvidia, and automates everything. It also switches Windows power plans automatically based if you are plugged in or not.

Hope this helps

 

Ok ill give it a try and write back my results

 

ok so I did as you said, reset the panel and then tried using the Nv GPU Pro, and Im getting a message after scan that system tool and performance isnt installed, I have version 6.08 installed now but I tried v 6.06 first, what can I do to fix this

 

I assume you install Windows 64-bit Vista or newer (Nv GPU Pro doesn't support XP).

Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\nTune
If you are not seeing files, then Nvidia System Tools (nTunes) is not installed.
If you are seeing files, make sure that nTuneCmd.exe, nTuneService.exe, and nTuneServer.dll exists, else re-install Nvidia System Tools, as you should have them.

 

All the files are their, Its 32 bit windows 7.