Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Hi all, I have this wonderful M6700. I added a crucial m4 256g mssd to the lonely empty mssd slot and booted it. The mssd does not show up in the bios. I returned the crucial m4 mssd and got a replacement and it still does not show up in the bios. I see in this thread that this drive can work in the M6700. Has anyone had this problem? Is my notebook defective? Is there some bios setting I don't know about? Any advice is appreciated!

 

Did you make sure to use the mSATA slot and not the mPCI-E slot used for the WWAN adapter?

 

Thanks so much for the info. It never occurred to me that there would be 2 very similar slots for 2 very different cards. If my eyes were better I would even have seen the WWAN printing! I saw the other slot for the mssd right away and it works fine!

Thanks again!
ken

 

Does it throttle down while running at 90 C? That's a little high, but even with the 55W heatsink and the best paste job I could manage, mine hangs around the 80-84 range when under full load.

I'll echo what others have said. If you're comfortable with it, do the repaste yourself, it'll probably make you feel better knowing that it was done right. If you don't break anything then you won't void your warranty.

See this thread for more info on the heatsink swap (if you didn't already find it).

 

The Precision won't throttle until it hits 105^oC as far as I know.

EDIT: I just ran the WEI CPU assessment under Windows 8 and the CPU assessment does bring CPU usage to ~85%, 4 active cores and brought my temps around 5^oC lower than the max I get during stress testing. If you ever want to run more tests, I would use something that can run stress tests like Intel XTU. If you ever want to check again using WEI, you can run only the CPU assessment from a command prompt with admin rights using the winsat cpuformal command.

 

Just in case anyone's looking for a wheeled bag, I found one that fits. It is not cheap, but it fits the M6700 Covet with room to spare. Briggs & Riley Roam. I took my laptop and associated gear to Bag & Baggage in Overland Park, KS to check it out before buying. It all fits. The only criterion that it did not fill for me was the requirement to have a shoulder strap (for going up staircases without kickplates). This one doesn't have one, but they said they can add one to it. They don't know what that will do to the warranty, though.

This fits my Covet, power supply, mouse, Kindle Keyboard, calipers, 12" scale, assorted writing utensils, Targus chill mat, mouse pad, calculator, Zune, etc. with no problem.

Tracy

 

Several times, now, my machine has waked itself from hibernate within literally seconds of completing hibernation. I checked the BIOS, and it's not set to wake on anything: power, USB, LAN, nothing. It also wakes from sleep.

I'm on the balanced power plan. I have backup set to run at 2300 every night.

On my older machines, I had it set to hibernate on lid close, and it would wake when I pushed the power button. That worked fine. It's not behaving the same way on this machine. I will be contacting Dell's tech support later today to see if they can figure it out, but I wanted to see if anyone else has had this happen.

Thanks,

Tracy

 

Have you checked the settings of the network card and/or wireless network card (in Windows)?

If it's set to wake the computer on 'directed network traffic', the computer will wake-up as soon as the network card receives a packet that contains its MAC address or IP address. For example, routers send out packets every now and then to check if a device is still connected to the network.

 

I've had issues with this before and it also turned out to be the wifi card. (Though in my case I was playing around with an Atheros wireless card which is not one of the cards that comes standard in the system.)

 

Thank you! It was set to allow the wireless card to wake the computer. I have unchecked that, and will observe my system for a bit to see if the behavior changes.

Tracy