Dell Precision M3800 Owner's Review

I would certainly expect Dell to provide you with a QHD display. The lighter and darker bit is the auto brightness control. I don't recall how to turn it off but I found and shut it off on my M3800 (and my M4400).

 

A simple way to turn it off is to go into Control Panel -> Location and other sensors, and uncheck the brightness sensor. Interestingly, my machine was shipped with this turned off out of the box. I turned it on, and will wait and see how long it takes to annoy me enough to turn it off again...

 

the kicker is....it IS turned off lol

Pirx good luck with that...i felt like ur avatar looks at the end of the day after looking at my screen all day.

 

Try disabling adaptive brightness in the Power Options. I'm not sure how that would still be working if you'd already actually disabled the brightness sensor, but that's fixed it over on the XPS 15 side. Fyi this issue is covered in the XPS 15 Wiki, practically all of which also applies to the M3800. The How-To and Common Complaints sections are pretty mature now: http://xps-15.wikia.com/wiki/XPS_15_Wiki.

 

I'd also like to get your thoughts on battery life and heat over the next couple of days/weeks if you don't mind.

 

My M3800 is doing fine also but you led me to look at the Events and there are disk errors every 6 hours or so. Are you getting any disk errors?

 

I do not own an M3800 yet, so unfortunately I can't answer your question. Maybe Pirx and/or a few others can chime in. To me your issue sounds like it could possibly be a faulty hard drive and not necessarily a Window 7/M3800 compatibility issue.

 

Disk errors are not good... What's the Event Source, EventID(s), and messages?
Oh, and do you not get the DptfEvent errors I have? What's your OS?

 

Source: Disk
Event: 11
Event: Error
The driver has detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR1

Yes, I have your error... something about cannot create shared memory... I would be less worried about yours than mine....

A search on mine says it is pretty non-specific

Am running W7.

I'll check with Dell as this is obviously under warranty. I had several in a row last night at 1am.

Too bad I looked. Ignorance is bliss.

 

Somehow I doubt Dell customer service reps will be trained on errors like this. But in the meantime have you upgraded to the latest Intel Rapid Storage driver?