Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

I have a Toshiba consumer-grade laptop that does resume from sleep, not hibernate, I don't think, when the lid is opened, and there's an easily-found setting for it. I can't find one on my M6700.

Tracy

 

Just checked, and no, they're not.

Dell ProSupport disabled most services and startup programs and rebooted. Then they reenabled startup programs. Then they reenabled services in batches. Nothing reproduced the problem, so they said it was probably that hibernate needed to complete on a clean start. I'm not sure I buy that, but oh well.

On the bright side, my fingerprint reader works, now. I had to do a repair of DDPA. I unencrypted my data drives and suspended BitLocker on my OS drive before doing that. Not sure that was necessary, but I didn't want to take a risk of locking up my data. I have it backed up elsewhere, but it's a PITA to restore it all, and I don't have time to mess with it for the next 2 days.

I'll reencrypt on Thursday, or maybe tonight.

Tracy

 

I hate it when that happens. Used to happen all the time with my HDX. So far, I've been lucky enough to avoid it with my Dell.

 

Has anyone been having trouble with their M6700 connected to 240W port replicator? When I connect my system to the replicator I get error message, invalid partition messages, no bootable software, I even got an error one time telling me I did not have a genuine copy of Windows on my PC. If I don't connect to the replicator, I boot fine and can even hook all my externals with no problem. Dell says the problem is all mine. I say I have a faulty replicator. Anyone with similar problems and work arounds.

 

I got the same blue screen this morning, when I was trying to shut the computer down, as I got when I was trying to hibernate.



I haven't installed any new hardware, recently, that I can recall, and none was attached when I tried to hibernate/shut down.

I'm going to uninstall any hardware I don't immediately need, and see if that helps, but I don't know how to stress test that.

Tracy

 

That is the same notorious BSOD the M6600 would get with Optimus. I assume you have Nvidia Graphics. You could try to disable Optimus in BIOS or you could kill the hibernation file then rebuild it, example type: POWERCFG -H OFF then POWERCFG -H ON. For Help on command prompt type: POWERCFG /?

 

Im interested in buying a workstation for cad and 3ds max and found this amazing dell m6700 with a quadrok3000 m but its refurbished and at the price of 1700$... Now my question is : should i risk buying a refurbished laptop? I need it for intense work , so im afraid it might fail + im getting it from US to EU and i think i might lose the warranty .... Is it worth it ? I am only co sidering it because it has the quadro k3000m and its in my price rage ... What if i buy it and it dyes.... Then what ? Should i go for it or find something else ?

 

No, actually, I have the AMD card. The Dell ProSupport tech had me update the video driver, but I think it was already updated.

Would the hibernation file also affect shut down, as well as hibernation?

Tracy

 

If the hibernation file is corrupted in someway I would think that it might. Since that is where the trouble seems to be, probably worth a quick try to rebuild it.
Beyond that maybe the Pagefile or Bootfiles next. After that, I'm out of ideas.

Did it work fine up until that incident of turning itself on inside the luggage?

 

Refurbished or not, it should have an active warranty which is 1) international 2) transferable (stays with the system not the user). If you like the deal - go for it.