A couple of M4400 issues

I'm currently running 185.20 and haven't had any problems whatsoever. Try using Driver Sweeper to clear the hard disk after you've uninstalled the drivers from the control panel.

 

Thanks for the tip! Never heard about Driver Sweeper, that seems like an excellent tool. Will try it next week.

I'm considering installing the new Windows 7 beta instead of Vista. Anyone else here been bold enough to go that far?

Cheers!

 

I tried Driver Sweeper, but with no luck. 185.20 booted up in VGA mode. Doctor, what OS are you running?

 

Hi everone. I recently got my M4400. I have XP64 bit installed.(chose an option that downgrades from Vista to XP from Dell) 4Gb Ram, fx 1700m graphics card, Intel WiFi 5300. 1920*1200 2ccfl display....pretty much same as Superrune...Both Vista and XP were given to me.

Until I receive my laptop, I've been looking whole threads in this category. It helped a lot, Thanks guys.

The thing is, At first, I tried to install Vista that came along with XP mainly to make second partition, besides wanted to experience it. But The media DVD is not recognised and failed to boot with it...which there's no problem with XP DVD. I couldn't see the contents of it in desktop explorer as well(seems as if it's just a blank media). Is this normal thing?

After that I deceided to stick to XP 64 already installed and one partition...I did't really wanted to be bothered by installing all the drivers and apps again by now...being quite urgent to use, so I just installed programes that I need.

Secondly, I feel like it's not really performing as it should do. I guess it's also related to graphics card driver... When I open some works in Illusrator, really slow..panning, zooming...etc, slower than my 3 years old M70. No activated GPU option in Photoshop CS3...
It even causes problem when I test windows screensaver called Beiziers which with many changing curves.

Overall, Although the other things(cam, WiFi,..) seems working fine under factory settings(I have't really tested thoroughly though), I'm getting an impression that mine is quite unstable mainly due to graphic driver...

Can you advice me how I can check the performance of this machine? 3DMark06??
And Knowing that there's no driver for fx 1700m and unstable (current one is 6.14.11.7607 seen as NVIDIA G96-950-GL on Hardware Device tap which I guess for both 770m and 1700m.), Should I just wait for new driver release or get it replaced or refunded..?

It's dissappointing...previous M70 was really solid and stable...give me some advice...

 

i recently had to rebuild a m4400 with xp & got stuck on the Broadcom UCH.

On the dell site there is a download specific for the Control Point Security Drivers. You don't have to install Control Point Manager to resolve the UCH driver pop up, just the security drivers.

I've heard weird reports from the user about the wireless connectivity. If they are using it for an extended period of time it drops the connection & a reboot is required to resolve the issue. Is this similar to your wireless issue?

 

Thanks, I will try those Security Drivers.

I've been trying to find out of the wireless driver thing the past days. I'm getting tired of lugging a cable around the house and when I'm working at companies. If I reinstall the drivers, the wireless works until I do a restart, then it can't connect again. The weird thing is, VNC works, but not browsing the internet or trying to connect to the network drives. I'm really baffled by this.

Here's some of the messages in the Event Viewer, does anyone know what could be causing these?

"Your computer was not assigned an address from the network (by the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address ___________."

"The browser was unable to retrieve a list of servers from the browser master _______ on the network \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{_______________________}. The data is the error code."

"A provider, Ncs2, has been registered in the WMI namespace, Root\cimv2, but did not specify the HostingModel property. This provider will be run using the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests. Ensure that provider has been reviewed for security behavior and update the HostingModel property of the provider registration to an account with the least privileges possible for the required functionality."

Are there any other drivers/software that need to be installed with the Intel Pro Wireless 5300 ?

 

Disabling the Wi-Fi Catcher in the BIOS seems to do the trick. Perhaps there were some missing drivers for it that messed things up. That was the last part of the configuration puzzle, and after three months I can finally save out a stable system restore point!