Latitude E6510 Owner's Lounge

GoodBytes, I will try that. I have seen a couple of Win updates come down w/ 6300 drivers. But I've not tried the latest and greatest from Intel. Will do that right now.

Paul P, no, not sure at all that it's not something else. I also suspect some of the Intel software that came stock on these units. There is a message I see periodically about syncing the wireless profiles w/ Intel something or other...so that is suspect too. But I would tend to agree that your model and mine are pretty similar, they are different screen sizes but under the hood are the same motherboard and hardware (I suspect).

If the drivers don't work, I'll call Dell...it's just wierd. I've never had this problem before w/ any other wireless card and I've always used Intel wifi cards. I've got a D-Link DIR-625 @ home, Belking g+ at church, and standard 54g Cisco managed access points (not sure the models) at work. So all different flavors and the behavior is the same everywhere. It's definitely something on the laptop.

I have a recent 'image' from Acronis, so one thing I may try before calling Dell is to do a clean Win 7 install and see how it behaves w/o anything Dell or Intel on it...only installing the most basic drivers required (if any).

Any other ideas are welcome, but I'm going to start w/ GoodByte's idea on the intel drivers.

-Chris

 

I did a clean install before I even tried out the wireless and used whatever
driver Dell provides on their E6410 drivers page (less than a month ago). I
do not have any Control Point software or drivers installed which I mention
because they seem to be the cause of all sorts of performance related
problems.

 

The intel drivers didn't change anything, still takes forever.

I wondered about control point, but was not sure if it would stop me from being able to use the FN keys for the keyboard backlighting and dimming...also really like the ability to turn off the point stick. Maybe I'll try uninstalling control point and see if that helps. I would prefer to not have to rebuilt this thing from scratch.

Thanks for the tip.

Chris

 

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Am I going to overheat the GPU playing HL2 or SC2 (on low) if using the NVS3100m?

 

What's the point in having something you can't use?
Of course you won't overheat your laptop (assuming you are using it under a place where it's not an oven or you are sweating). Laptop don't overheat, they throttle down when the temperature are too high.

 

I apologize for the dbl-post in the 6410-thread; couldn't figure out how to delete it.

I was reading that the Thinkpad 410 with the same card tends to get throttled by GPU heat, whereas the latitude 6510 doesn't.

I'm going to do some very light gaming on it (think traveling on a train), but I don't want to kill the computer because of it.

 

You won't, don't worry! You can stress this bad boy 24/7 without issue for a nice 3-4 years non stop.

 

Can someone please check if this laptop throttles?

Play some games + heavy cpu usage.
Run prime95 + furmark and see if Gpu-z or Throttle Stop shows any issues.

Thnks.

 

anyone know why the dell rep is telling me that the 2.4ghz processor is incompatible with the NVS3100m?