Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

At 70% of max? Put in a DVD and see what happens.

Anyway, I place mine on its cooler when its running hard just in case. Now that its mentioned, perhaps Dell will consider a docked configuration that wont alter its ability to be placed on a cooler/raised for the next chassis update? These are the things that make for a worthwhile update.

 

I have it set to ultra performance no and it does not make a difference. I do not know the temp I do know when I get ready to leave work and undock the laptop to take it home (Im on call) the back of the laptop by the hinges is crazy hot. Its the M6700 Covet if that makes a difference extreme cpu 8gigs of 1866 and 2 ssd drives nvidia 4000 card.

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An odd question: how sturdy is the bottom cover on this model? It looks like plastic, but I have the impression that it's better than typical plastic. Does it latch into place or is it only screwed on?

 

Please use the "reply with quote" folks, so that its clear who and what you're referring to.

 

It is metal of some sort, and attached by two screws located under the battery.

 

It's not metal, but a very hard and sturdy type of plastic.

My first M6700 had a damaged base cover, where one of the two screws that secure the base cover was screwed-in too tight and had cracked the tab. Also, one of the hooks on the base cover was snapped off.

The base cover has a number of hooks on it that latch into the base of the M6700. You slide it into place and secure it with two screws inside the battery compartment. With the battery inserted, there are no visible screws on the bottom.

The base cover is very sturdy, and feels more like metal than plastic.

 

Ok, I thought my spontaneous coming-back-from-hibernation problem was cured, but this morning, after I hibernated my machine to take it to the job site, it apparently came back. I hadn't completely closed the zipper on my laptop bag, which is fortunate, because as it was, the thing was WAY hot to the touch when I finally got to the site. I had a blue screen, which I didn't think to photograph. I immediately got a cooling pad under it and rebooted it. I had no "Windows has recovered from a serious error" message.

I will be contacting Dell momentarily to get this hibernation problem looked at, but what I'd like to know is what kind of damage am I likely to have done by having this happen? At the MOST, it was like this for 20 minutes. I have no way of knowing how long it was doing this, though. In the past, when the machine has come back from hibernation, it was more or less immediate, so my guess is that it was running pretty much continuously while trapped in a heat-trapping bag.

Tracy

 

Strange, this has probably been asked, but did you make sure that only the power button was set to wake the laptop form hibernation?

 

I have the same issue with mine but I think I just figured it this weekend when I select sleep while it is on the docking station it will cause it to reboot and it fails asking normal mode or safe mode. At the house if I enter sleep mode running on battery power it sleeps just fine. I will need to test it tonight at the house in power and see if it is related to power or the docking station. I am running the SSD's and I was told by dell some time ago I cannot hibernate only sleep this lappy. Any thoughts on this anyone?

 

I'm not sure how to do that, but I did check that the wireless radios and hardwired ethernet are unable to wake the laptop from hibernation.

One thing I thought of is that I installed UltraVNC to access another machine remotely. I have it set to run the server on this machine, too, just because. Perhaps that caused the computer to fail to stay in hibernation? But I have successfully hibernated several times since installing that, so I don't know. I also had GoodSync running, but usually, the GoodSync job aborts when the computer is hibernated. I haven't really done any testing of hibernation while GoodSync is working...

The laptop was moderately painful to touch. I don't know what temperature that would equate to, but I do know that I can smell my battery. Or could, until I pulled it. I'm working directly from AC power, right now. I'm worried that my battery may have been damaged by the heat, and/or my hard drives. Also, the CPU, and the paste.

I am currently running Dell system diagnostics. Am I the only one annoyed that they won't run from Firefox? I have to use IE to run them.

Tracy