Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge, Part 2

I would like to, but right now I'm in Ukraine. I'm not able to go to US.
Also that's probably over my budget.
I'll better do it by myself.

Or do You mean my warranty can cover that incident?

 

It does appear that the impact has displaced or damaged something. However, I would start by removing and replacing the thermal assembly in case doing that reseats something. You could also closely examine the mainboard for evidence of a poor joint.

Failing the above managing to fix the problem, a replacement mainboard is the obvious way forward.

John

 

I'll try this as soon as possible.

 

I had reassembled and assembled my laptop.
nothing changed laptop doesn't shows to load bios and boot up until i put pressure a little bit upper the touchpad (keyboard taken off).
when hard drive inserted even ready to boot windows.
BUT!
heat fan is still not working.
I'm sure it does because when I take off the RAM it works:i press power button it spins at the hidh speed then laptop turns off while the caps lock, num lock, scroll lock indicator lights blinking.

do you guys know can I upload a video and embed it on the forum?
I guess that would describe my problem more.

I'll probably need to buy a new motherboard.
but still have a doubt: will it solve all the problems?

 

Hi,

What do folks use for a chipset (inf files) driver during a Win 7 install?

I don't see the chipset driver listed under Win 7 x64 downloads on the Dell site, but do see them for Vista x64.

Right now I'm using the native Win 7 drivers.

 

i meant the warranty -- unless you didn't get complete care, it'll cover that. and quite honestly, you may be able to get them to replace things even without complete care.

 

New BIOS A25

Fixes/Enhancements
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1. Enhanced HDD password checking.

Hardly seems worth a whole release just for that one feature?

 

Presumably a security issue which can't wait for what may be several months.

John

 

Yeah I guess, just funny that we had nothing for months for the BIOS and then two in very quick succession, with the version numbering made a significant jump, from A20 to A25. Looks like A25 has fixed the fan going full pelt doing nothing for me.

 

I did not read through this thread so I apologize if this has been asked before but when I put my E6400 to sleep it seems the power button light continues to flash for a few hours before it finally turns off. Does anyone else have this happen, reason I ask is because it seems the machine is still wasting power isntead of sleeping ha.

I am currently running W7 prof on the machine.