Latitude E6510 Owner's Lounge

The drive's SMART data should reveal whether it has any health problems. There are various programs that can read this data. You may want to try ActiveSMART which you can run in trial mode for a month. However, it is not infallible: 5 years ago it forecast that one of my HDDs (a hot-running Seagate) was about to die, but the HDD carried on until superseded.

John

 

I ran that and it didn't find any problems. I guess I'll just live with this until I can upgrade to a SSD.

 

Dell switches HD vendors a lot. we got a batch in some E6400 that a very noticeable audible click can be heard.

Then we will get bad batches, I just love it when tickets roll in for bad laptop HDs and you pull all the service tags related to those tickets and they were all in the same shipment. The last was a bunch of Toshiba 160gbs in the E6410s. At least Dell is quick about replacing them.

 

Hitachi makes the very quiet HDD. Western Digital is only on select models that they are quiet. Seagate are usually the noisiest (click and/or motor noise) of all, with few exception in some models.

 

i know that screen is normal, if you reread my post i said it locked up on that screen (the first time i turned on the computer which is why i mentioned it).

another problem im having is sometimes when im typing the cursor will jump back to somewhere in the middle of the sentence. any help with that or the locking up?

 

I have seen Dell use drives from just about everyone that makes them.

Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, Fujistsu, Hitachi, and even Samsung.

no pattern to it at all, just seems to be whatever they are buying that month.

 

That is because your are tapping either on track point, or the touch pad when you type.

You can disable the trackpoint (or trackpad) or simply adjust sensitivity of the both mouse device in the mouse control panel. (Start > Type: Mouse > Enter).

 

As I posted in another thread, the eraser point pointer is most likely the culprit. Dell made the thing flat with a lip that sticks up, and it's wider then the one on the D series. Much much to easy to catch that bugger with fat fingers.

 

The wireless card turned off; I restarted the computer and it was back on.

Problem?

 

One indefinite event is not a problem. 'turned off' is not specific. Restart could have masked a normal recovery from a WLAN radio disconnect. Too many unknowns. Relax and monitor for more specific event details.

Which wlan adapter is it?

GK