Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Not sure where the webcam cable is, but it likely is a rather small cable that is easy to forget to reconnect. For the GPU, there is no cable aside from the one connecting the display, only traces running between the CPU and the GPU so if there was a bad connection, cracked PCB was likely the explanation.

@Krane, I'm guessing this si the driver you're trying to install?
http://www.dell.com/support/drivers...osCode=W764&fileId=3153538119&languageCode=EN

 

Hi,
Has anyone tried replacing the graphics card in an m6700 with a non standard one?

I'm trying to get OSX running well on my m6700 but the K3000m doesn't work. Don't know if it's not supported yet or an Optimus problem. Anyway I bought a 'new' ATI 6770m from ebay as it's a chip used in some MacBook Pro's. I installed the card okay, but when I tried to turn the machine on, it turns itself off again after about a second. Only the LEDs light up, nothing on the display.

I reinstalled the k3000m and everything work fine again.

Don't know if the card is broken or if switching MXM cards like this isn't like switching PCI express cards..

Any help is appreciated.


Cheers,
Tim.

 

I thought about some sort of display cable issue but the only cable is the one between the board and the display --- and on the M6700 they have a plate holding that down so there really is no way for it to come lose. Everything else is on the board.

Anyway, the webcam cable is rather near the display cable, and doesn't appear to be accessible without removing the entire palmrest (like when you were getting to the heatsink). I will either have the tech come take a look at it again or just wait until I do the heatsink swap myself to take a look at it.

You can rule out Optimus if you like, just go turn it off in the BIOS and the system will run with the NVIDIA card only. Anyway, a standard MXM card should work fine. If you switch between NVIDIA and AMD you also need to get a different heatsink. They aren't quite the same. So, unless you did this already, your issue may be the card heating up too much.

 

Thanks for the link but I'm still getting this:

 

Hmm, you could try the older versions and if that doesn't work, disconnect yourself from any networks (optional, but for the paranoid guy...), disable UAC completely, reboot as admin and try installing. I ran into one or two cases of drivers not liking UAC enabled for some reason, you can enable it afterwards.

Another thing you could try is to force the driver install through the device manager, download the non exe version, it will unpack the driver including the inf file to C:\Dell\, point windows to that file by installing the driver through the device manager and see what happens.

 

Intel vPro Activation -- Special Question

I ordered the precission and chosed in the weborder below the topic
SOFTWARE
1 System Management: No Out-of-Band System Management

Now I want to enable vPro in BIOS and I contacted the dell support and got the answer
that I can't use vPro because I didn't order Out-of-Band System Management

Is is this true?

 

I have been working with Dell Support to get the eSata running on Windows 8 Pro. Dell had be go back to the Defauly MS AHCI Driver. I went under device manager and and clicked update driver and selected the default MS AHCI driver. After reboot and the MS AHCI driver shown in Device Manager, the eSata Works. I then installed the Intel RST since I am not running RAID and now not on the Intel driver.

However, windows update finds the Intel Driver as the latest and wants to install that. If I update to that, eSata is broken again.

Dell Tech Support said to prevent the Intel drive from being installed, delete the install folder for the IRST under C:/Dell. I did that, but Windows update still finds the driver. Dell Support has not provided any further support on this. I assume it is under Windows/System32/Drivers as is the MS default driver. However, I am hesitant to delete it there concerning that it will mess up the boot.

Anyone have ideas.

thanks,

Mike

 

First --- If you see Intel's RST in the "Uninstall a program" control panel, go there and remove it. If you have previously installed it this should clean up your system and switch you back to the Microsoft driver. However, if you only have got the driver through Windows Update, you probably won't see it in there. However, if by chance you find it, check device manager after a reboot and see if it switched back to Microsoft's driver. If it did, skip to step 4.

Second --- Make a system image backup if you are worried about breaking your system after we switch the driver. Not expecting an issue though.

Third --- Go to device manager and locate the disk controller, under "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers". If you check the "Driver" tab you should see "Intel Corporation" listed for "Driver provider." Click "Update driver", "Browse my computer for software", "Let me pick from a list of devices on my computer", and here you can choose to use the "Standard SATA AHCI controller" instead of Intel's. Go through the process and reboot. You should be back in business with Microsoft's driver.

(Alternatively, you can select "Roll back driver" from the "Driver" tab and it will go back to using the Microsoft driver if that was the one you most previously had installed. You'll have to reboot.)

Fourth --- Go to Windows Update, have it check for updates, and find the Intel disk controller in the list. Right-click it and select "Hide update" and it will not offer it to you again or attempt to automatically download it (until they release a new version).

 

thanks. I did do a Trueimage Image and a restore point just in case before I started. I Uninstalled the IRST after I changed the driver. IRST was uninstalled, but i guess it left the driver on the system or windows update is still finding the intel driver on their server.

I will hide the update, I did not think of that.

thanks,

Mike

 

EDIT:

Okay, I checked and there is no issue with mSATA or USB 3.0 so I'm happy to report these transferred over without issue. All that remains is HDMI (which I will check tomorrow) and display port which is the one display monitor I don't have at the moment.

I had anticipated purchasing Dell 27" monitor, but there have been too many reports of bleed what what I've gathered.