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    Dell Core Duo based systems and PCI handling

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by ej00807, Jun 27, 2007.

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    I was reading an entry on the notebookreview forum on the Insprion 6400 line when I came across a comment that indicated there is a hardcoded type of problem with the Dell's Core Duo based systems and the Intel PCI handling chipset.

    I also ran across divergent reviewer claims on whether these systems run hot. I'm wondering if anyone knows any more about this claim? Also I'd like to know if anyone has taken heat readings from the LSI chips running on PCI devices taken from inside of these notebooks? This would be interesting to compare against temperature readings taken from the same cards running on other computers.

    I find it hard to believe a firmware level problem would be exisiting on so many boards, but this author made a semi-convincing argument. However I have not, as of yet, found any supporting evidence looking on-line.

    " I had an Inspirson CoreDuo T2500 20 GB RAM 120 Hard Drive ATI x1400 256MB HT Video. I tried to let Dell see that there is a problem that is in the Device Manager under Intel 82801G ICH7 SMBus 27DA and the third System Board in the list called PCI Bus. You can find the exact name in the Registry in HKLM\SystemCurrentControlSet\Enum ACPI\PNP0C01\3. In the Device manager under for each of these devices look in the 4th tab and you will see that in a message in the Conflicting device list. You need to know that there is never going to be an error event record,BSOD or anything the the System Information log, to let you know this is a very bad problem. Do to the conflict many PCI devices that are controlled by the chipset will burn out over a short period of time. I have called Microsoft and Intel who tell me this is coded by the OEM which is true I found the coding in http://www.acpi.info/. The Dell Tech refuse to open my e-mail because the only way for me to have them send it to the Software Engineers is to take a print screen of the devices. I spent 2 months researching this issue and every laptop from DEll with an Intel Core Duo and Intel Core 2 Duo has the same issue. I have replaced the motherboard and Dell replaced they Inspiron to a T7200. This did not solve the problem because it is a coding issue which customers can not fix. I reformated the system with Windows Media Center Windows Pro anad Vista and it is still there."
    Frances Steele
     
    ej00807, Jun 27, 2007
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