Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Nothing I can think of, but this happens even before windows starts booting, I don't even see the big dell logo...

 

Now I have a display annoyance: when resuming from hibernate all my short cut icons are all over the screen. I have to drag them back into position.

I got nothing. But at this point I'd notify Dell.

 

This can happen if your display resolution changes (even briefly)...

Do you use external monitors?
Do you resume from hibernate with a external monitor configuration from when you entered hibernate?
Any updates to graphics drivers recently?

One reason I just keep my desktop empty.

 

That's it! All of the above.

I also considered that briefly (and because I hate a screen of icons), just to avoid the clutter. However, I did settle on no more than two columns on the left, and reduced to small icons.

 

Do you have more than one external display? If so you might want to experiment with unplugging each display individually and making sure that the remaining setup doesn't cause the resolution on your main display to change.

For example, this is what happened to me.

- Let's say I have three displays at work (internal, DIsplayPort, and HDMI). The internal is primary. Windows is set to "extend" the desktop onto each display.
- When I take the machine home, I have just one display (internal). Naturally, I keep the screen resolution the same.
- If I'm at work and I disconnect just one of the external displays, Windows may decide to now switch to mirroring the remaining two displays. Because the external displays aren't the same resolution as the internal display, my internal display resolution is changed, which can cause specific window layouts and icon arrangements to go out of whack.
- If I sleep or hibernate the machine when moving it between home and work, Windows may notice that one of the displays is missing before the other and set the machine to this mirrored state (with a different screen resolution) for a brief period of time. To fix this, I must check every possible intermediate display configuration and manually set it to "extended" instead of of "mirrored."

This is easy enough with two external displays (just unplug each of them and check). Nowadays I use three external displays connected to the dock (DVI+DVI+VGA). To be thorough I had to check every combination of one connected display and two connected displays to make sure Windows behaved correctly, if when moving between home and work it doesn't notice that all of the displays have disappeared at the same time.

(This problem seems to happen much more often if Optimus is used, I suppose because there are multiple GPUs in use in addition to multiple displays, with some displays connected to each GPU.)

 

New mobile Quadro drivers today, version 320.92.
NVIDIA DRIVERS 320.92WHQL
(Still no official support for Windows 8.1.)

 

will ddr3 ram from m6600 works in m6700?

 

RAM is RAM is RAM, so yeah. As long as it's the same DDR rev and voltage, you're good to go in any computer that takes the same specs. Obviously, you can't use DDR2 in lieu of DDR3 and some laptops require low voltage RAM.

 

Depends on speed. I think DDR3-1333 works in M6600 but M6700 requires DDR3-1600?

 

Requires? Nope. I've never heard of a laptop requiring faster RAM, a laptop not capable of handling faster RAM due to the memory controller, yup, but the mem controller on Ivy chips takes 1066 and 1333 MHz RAM just fine. Things can get dicey with RAM at 1866 MHz or faster though, not all Ivy Bridge laptops can handle those, they'll just downclock to a lower clock speed, the M6700 can handle 1866 MHz though.