Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge, Part 2

Hi, I'm hoping there is someone here who can help me with an E6400 / E6400 ATG question...

I'm planning to buy an E6400 or E6400 ATG and have seen a few on the Dell Outlet and elsewhere with no wireless card fitted. This is fine for me as various other machine specs are more important for me and I can buy the WLAN card to fit it myself.

My question is, if the laptop shipped from Dell originally with no WLAN card does this mean that it was not fitted with wireless antennas?

Hoping you can help me,

Neil

 

They should have them inside the machine covered by a small plastic cap since its part of the LCD assembly.

 

Smooth J is right. I only have the Dell WLAN card but there is a third antenna I believe that is capped because the Intel Cards use 3 antennas and mine only uses 2.

Greg

 

The Intel Wireless card 5300 uses 3 antennas.
The 5100 uses 2 antennas, so is the Dell ones.

No mater the wireless card you have, you'll have 3 of them.
The antenna wires goes around the screen.

 

No answers?
Where are you GB/Veritas/Others?

 

There's a photo in my E6400 review which shows all the cables. Note that you need a half-height wireless card.

John

 

John Ratsey, GoodBytes, Smmoth_J, SpeedyMods,

Thanks for you replies, very much appreciated

All the best, Neil

 

-Download the latest version of your sound card (at Dell web site), DCP (also at Dell website, but do not get the connection manager or security manager components/extensions). and get the latest Nvidia driver via Nvidia website.

- Uninstall you sound card, DCP (with all this extension (connection manager and security manager if you have them) and video card drivers.

- Use CCleaner (free) and perform a registry cleaning

- Restart your computer

- Clean registry again with CCleaner.

- Go at C:\ and delete Nvidia and Dell folders, empty recycle bin

- Install in order: Sound card, restart your computer, then the video card, restart computer, and finally DCP and restart your computer once more.

See if that helps.

 

what kind of DPC jumps are you seeing (how high?) and how frequent? there was an nvidia driver released fairly recently ago that allegedly solved the dpc problem. ill check and get back to you -0- i was on spring break.

 

Are you running the latest BIOS (A20)? I recall that Dell tweaked to BIOS to reduce the latency in one of the recent updates. Also, the Intel Matrix storage driver used to cause latency problems (in the pre-Windows 7 days) but the original Dell issue of the Win 7-64 driver works fine for me (I've just run dpclat and everything is in the green zone).

John