Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

I can't even tell what you're asking?

Put the drive in. It will work. SATA II and III are pin compatible. If the port or the drive are only SATA II, that will be the max theoretical speed.

Since it's a hard drive (and not an SSD), it doesn't matter whether you're running on SATA II or III anyway.

 

so there is no difference in speed or smth between an sata 2 and sata 3 HDD?

and it does not explain why two interconected sata 3 devices work with sata 2 protocol.

 

There isnt any difference in speed with normal hdd drive.

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I can see three possibilities:
1) Whatever you used to measure the link speed is giving you an erroneous reading
2) There is some BIOs setting or driver issue reverting the link speed to 3 Gbps
3) The driver detects a HDD and doesn't bother with bumping the link speed to 6 Gbps since it won't make a single difference. A normal HDD can't even saturate a SATA 3 Gbps link, so having the drive being 6 Gbps compatible doesn't do a single thing.

 

Hello guys. Anyone got part numbers for cable(s) that connect IPS RGB LED panel to MB/VC? My panel returns an error from pre-BIOS diagnostics and it doesn't wake up properly. Dell tried a new panel, mb, vc already. Didn't help.

Would be much appreciated!

 

Got the numbers from ebay sellers, no worries.

 

I tried it, gave me some error on installing (like it tries to execute some patch for non W7 64 version of Windows) and then on the first startup some error that it can't connect to BIOS. On the second run it worked, though. But, I didn't really notice any useful options there, besides backlight keyboard timer and some options for Enhanced Power Plans, I guess. And TBH, I prefer the FEP pop ups over these older ones.

 

Oops, yeah, it's for W764. Not gonna work too well for other UI's. Dell is moving things toward FEP, so you're probably better off sticking with that for anything newer than W7.

 

No, I do have W7 64. I just saw some error at the start that some app patch cannot run on this version of Windows (hence why I presumed it's for some non-W7 64). So, it does work in the end, but it kinda looks obsolete and lacks useful options.

 

Mates, would anyone please try HP's display assistant to see if it recognizes LG/P flavor of the IPS panel?
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp60001-60500/sp60274.exe
Greatly appreciated!