Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Exactly. The Display Assistant sw only works for the RGB IPS Premiercolor / Dreamcolor display (same LG screen).

 

Dell started shipping the M6600's with PremierColor installed on all outbound machines when the RGB IPS LCD became available; it's confusing getting a machine with it if you're not familiar with the RGBLED LCD and its differences compared to the WLED LCD.

I wouldn't recommend installing PremierColor on a WLED LCD only machine. Take it off, or clean reimage and don't put it back on.

 

A step down in display, a step up (or parallel move) everywhere else. The display is a small loss for what you're getting. Doubling the VRAM alone is worth the price of admission. And from there, you can always go to external display (or two) which is the case in most necessary applications anyway.

 

Unless you need the RGB IPS for what you do, I'd go for it, but that is just me. Don't forget the drastic increase in battery life, almost to a factor of 2.

 

Internal screen will not illuminate when restarting form hibernate. However, when connected to an external monitor the display will illuminate the desktop on the external display. A restart will restore all normal functions but any data stored during hibernate will be lost.

Any ideas to what's causing this anomaly?

One more thing, I was playing around with the Nvidia Manager and now everything on the screens just got smaller (25%).

Actually, its not that displeasent since everything retains its sharpness. Not at all like reducing the save in the browser which causes an eventually breakup in resolution and sharpness.

Thing is, I don't have a clue how I engaged it, nor how to return it to its previous state. I guess I'll have to live with it...for now?

 

When the internal screen doesn't work but external does, what do you see if you look at attached displays (right-click desktop "Change resolution")? Is the internal display completely missing, or just disabled?

Do you have legacy option ROMs disabled and secure boot enabled in the BIOS? If so, do you have the older or newer NVIDIA VBIOS for your card? (For the K5000M, the old VBIOS is 80.04.33.00.35 and the new VBIOS is 80.04.5A.00.05. You can check in GPU-Z.)

I ask because I've run into the internal screen not working when legacy option ROMs are disabled in the BIOS and the NVIDIA card has the old VBIOS. Never had it specific to just resume from hibernate, though.


As for your other issue, you can probably reset all of the NVIDIA settings by reinstalling the graphics driver with the "clean install" option checked.

 

Completely missing

Confirmed.

At home I only use my external monitor so I would not have noticed before. I use a dual side by side setup at another location

Not to excited to take that route. Though I'll consider it as a last result.

On the other hand, now that you mention it, there is the question about how ofter one should perform this procedure. Since its been a year, would annually be too often or wait until performance declines? I've always wondered if partitioning the OS really mattered.

As to the other issue, here are those results. Although I don't really have a problem with them except to understand why/how I would want to use it:

 

New NVIDIA drivers today: 332.76
NVIDIA DRIVERS Quadro Notebook Driver Release 331 WHQL

 

Does it fix the brightness on battery issue? :/

 

Haven't tested yet, but I doubt it. (Tried a pre-release version in the 335 series and it still had the issue.)