Latitude E6510 Owner's Lounge

mini pcie ssd?

Can it be installed in the E6510?

The Precision Mobile M4500 has the option for a 64GB Solid State Minicard... if you try to add the Dell Precision ON Flash to the same system its not compatible. I am assuming the E6510 is similar... Can the Latitude ON Flash be replaced with a Solid State Minicard?

 

A02 BIOS installed fine on Win 7 Pro x64 for me. I'm also off of a clean install of Win 7 (not the factory preinstalled hard drive).

 

Just checked and it looks like they pulled the P01 and A02 BIOS updates from the U.S. site? I'd swear they were there earlier today...

 

Not there for me either. I was going to upgrade... Anyone know what's going on?

 

My guess is that they have realized that some people couldn't upgrade from Windows and they're trying to fix it.

 

As I mentioned before, tech support is aware of this issue:

 

Raising the system doesn't necessarily help in cooling it, in fact it could do the opposite. It's unintuitive, but then again a lot of fluid dynamics can be.

 

Here's a pic of the inside of the E6510. Intel 6300 WLAN (upper right corner), Latitude ON Flash (lower center, just to the right of the memory sticks and below the blue square), and empty WWAN slot (upper left corner).

 

Hopefully this is an easily answered question: On anyone's E6510, where in the Device Manager does the Firewire 1394 port show and what does it display as?

The reason why I'm asking: When I first got my machine a couple weeks ago, I was using my external drive via firewire and it was working fine. I then got an eSATA cable for the external drive and, after a little jiggering, got that up and running. I'd been intending on reserving use of the 1394 port for digital audio recording interfaces. So, I finally get around to installing one of those (Presonus Inspire) and it doesn't connect. As would not be unusual, I looked to the Device Manager to check on the driver and the like, and can't find any entry for the 1394 port.

Just to test it that it wasn't necessarily the audio interface, I tried attaching my external drive via the 1394 port (as it previously worked fine) instead of eSATA. It never appears. So, I'm wondering if somehow I, or an update, nuked the driver for the 1394 port. But, then, if that were the problem, it would identify the device on a reboot, right? Anyone with any ideas?

 

It should be listed under "IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers"