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hi hi... am owner of dell i6400 for 1 1/2 year already ^^ glad this thread is still alive...

just last week i fail to boot.. press power button and light came on.. dvd drive kicks in and then everything offs... lcd screen would remain black the whole time... not even backlight.. was freaking out and it was like that for around 5 hours... tried google up solutions with my desktop but all no use

then.. i press the keyboard area down hard hard.. around JKL... video card area.. and the next press of power button sent it to life~! weeeee... must have been something loose when i transfered my notebook back to seremban "

was reading through all the post in this thread cos too free... and for those reporting high temperatures.. i think it is normal IF you are running on x1400 haha... my is like mini heater when playing 3d games...

anyone using any updated/alternative sound card drivers? my driver is still SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC 6.10.0.5609 dated 07/sep/2007

for those who wants extra juice from their notebook graphic card (x1400) u may want to try the Mobility Modder which modifies the latest ATI drivers for use on notebooks. Note that this is totally at your own risk. i have been using it on my x1400 since purchase and can totally play games like Bioshock, Stalker etc with acceptably good performance.

Bioshock was the game which prompted me to do this.. was having choopy unplayable framerate and dell wasn't updating the drivers... and to make it worst.. it was discontinued 3 months after my purchase " so WTF.. and after moding the latest driver from ATI website it was all good.. no more choppy frames.. ^^

DELL INSPIRON 6400 RULEZZZ~!!

I just formatted OS and already installed latest chipset driver but the USB still fail to run/detect, any idea?

No idea bro...
how's your USB nowadays? OK or not?

problem fixed, uninstall the USB driver and install balik......thanks to the quick respond of DELL..........

That normally we do when something gone bad

Cheap rams now. aroun rm 40 for 1gb

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
that cheap aaaaaa
but mine is great with 1GB RAM only

Mine is dying.. Used for 2.5 years and no more warranty already..

Few button is not working, keypad make sound when on laptop and bluetooth need to install everytime when i wanna use it..

I think your i6400 need some 'overhaul'
seems like it gonna dead very soon now

No more warranty already

Battery is dying as well.. It's able to last for less than 30minutes i think.

Buy new battery la sis

Just wonder, why use battery if u can use power adapter?
Even outside also can use power supply
certain cafe charge us when using power supply
some cafe didn't charge us any

Hi guys, this thread's been too quiet for too long. So I figure, why not post something?
My laptop is around 2 years old already, still going strong. I'm a heavy user, everyday the laptop operates around 5 - 11hours, twice a week I play some games on it.
This laptop brought me through some of the oldest games up to the latest ones for the past 2 years:

Medal Of Honor Allied Assault;
Call Of Duty 1,2,4: Modern Warfare, 5: World at War;
Half Life 2, Half Life 2 Episode 1 & 2;
Counter Strike: Source;
Far Cry, Far Cry 2;
Doom 2 Demo, Doom 3, Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil;
FEAR, FEAR Extraction Point, FEAR Perseus Mandate;
Gears of War;
Midnight Club 2;
TOCA Rae Driver 3;
Race Driver: GRID Demo;
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2, Underground, Underground 2, Most Wanted, Carbon, ProStreet Demo, Undercover;
Max Payne 2;
Pariah;
Prey Demo;
BioShock;
Homeworld 2;
Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo, UT 2004 Demo, UT 3 Demo;
Quake 3 Arena;
Serious Sam 1 & 2;
Track Mania Sunrise Demo, TM Nations Demo;
Timeshift Demo;
STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl;
BMW M3 Challenge;
Crysis;
Colin McRae Rally 3, Colin McRae 04;
HALO Combat Evolved Demo;
Juiced Demo;
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition.

I didn't finish all the games though - some of them either can't run smoothly or the game simply sucks.
Games aside, this laptop can crunch through serious work such as photo editing, sound mixing, word assignments without fail.
It fares well with other entertainment stuff such as HD movie viewing (mostly 720p) and music listening, though I have to get myself SRS Audio Sandbox to compensate for Sigmatel's lack of clarity and bass reproduction.
I do have a few mishaps: Spyware attack! Have to try out some many (4 to 5 of them) before I could weed out that pest; a hardware failure forces me to call a Dell technician to have the mobo replaced.
All in all, this is a great notebook, looking forward for more rock solid computing years. Less and less of gaming.

hye guys..
how can i differentiate btw fake n original adapter?
going to buy tomorrow.
afraid if cheated.
so need help from u all.
and if any of u is selling one pls offer me.
prefer new one.

my adapter seems not working.
when i plugged in the led didnt light up.
and weird beep sound come from the adapter.
anybody knows whats the reason?
any shop that can repair it?

This post has been edited by akupunye: Dec 23 2008, 07:30 AM

I don't know what's wrong with your AC adapter, it is probably faulty; what most of us will do is to call Dell Technical Support Toll Free number @ 1800-881-306 and if your system is still under warranty Dell will replace the parts for you.
This thread is inactive for quite a while, unlike its heydays. You can PM some of the gurus here, for example: madstone, teikwing, death_nite, calvin_gsc, sotong168 just to name a few. Not sure whether they're still using the Inspiron 6400 though, you want assurance then contact/PM them, I might have gotten my facts wrong sometimes.

This post has been edited by Onyx_black: Dec 23 2008, 12:06 PM

no more warranty..my mom been using this for about 5 years : )
hv change the ac adapter twice already.

will try to pm the gurus.hope they can help me.
btw...is there any trustable shop in lowyat that repair ac adapter and battery alsoo..with reasonable charge of course.?

I see, well you can't 'repair' a notebook battery, maybe the AC adapter; you can replace the battery with a new one though.

For best result, buy from DELL
i know it's expensive what so ever, BUT it's worth it
plus, the after sales service is the best in the world
no need to go anywhere, call them, discuss & they will come to your doorstep

My HDD kept sound like hard, slow & hard again
the sound seemed like it working so hard

Same here. I used the laptop to game quite a lot (mostly CoD, RA3 and some other games), though a dead bug IN the LCD kind of killed the mood for me. I don't think it is worth it to get a replacement LCD, it is already 2 1/2 years down the road.

This post has been edited by kct-86: Jan 24 2009, 12:05 AM