Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

@gannjunior

I noticed you have a M6700 with 32Gb 1866 mhz (4x8Gb) Corsair Vengeance. Which part number is that from the Corsair Vengeance range?

 

Hi @DynamiteZerg
is this what you need?

they are exactly my ram

 

Hi all.

Got my M6700 since three and a half years now. Since some time, there where bluescreens from time to time. It became much worse since I upgradet from windows 8 to windows 10. The reasons for the bluescreens differ all the time. I had applied 8 additional GB crucial ram a year ago; As I've read, some people had bluescreens due to corsair ram. Others in general forums say that it may take a bios-update with older computers, but 3.5 years isn't that old; Any experiences I'd be grateful.

thanks and cheers,

Aki

 

What is the error message of the bluescreen? Does it point to a specific driver or .SYS file? What does BlueScreenView show?

Running Windows 10 on launch M6700 and it's completely stable. I did have stability issues with Corsair RAM, took me a while to diagnose, but once I actually ran MemTest86 it showed errors. I replaced it all with G.Skill a bit over a year ago.

 

The error messages are different all the time, can't recall the precise content. I just installed BlueScreenView. Um, which of the many informations are important? What strucks me at the first glance is that in the column "caused by driver" it's always the same: ntoskrnl.exe

 

In the bottom pane, lines highlighted in red are files that were active when the crash occurred. If there is something in common and it is not a Microsoft file, but rather a third-party driver, disabling or removing it is a good first step. For instance, I have seen before iastor.sys or iastora.sys which is the Intel disk controller driver.

If the error is always different, and it is pointing at a Microsoft file (ntoskrnl.exe is the Windows kernel...), then I would say that it is likely a hardware issue. Have you run a memory test?

 

only ntoskrnl.exe is highlighted in the bottom pane. yes, I ve run the windows memory test, with no results ... it says everythings ok. Just ran a HD-test with windows tool, also no problems;

 

today, again: "Attempted to write on readonly memory" .. there was a very loud humming while it collected data;

another one was "kernel data inpage error (esc.sys)

 

I would run the Dell diagnostic tests from the BIOS for one thing, the longer ones as well. It looks more and more like a failing hardware component. My money would be on the drive or RAM. The Windows tests are by no means exhaustive and might miss some things. If you have a spinning drive, each drive manufacturer has testing tools that are more thorough and comprehensive. Memtest86 is what you want to run for RAM and let that run for a while, overnight to 24 hours.

Before you do any HDD testing, I would backup the data first. If the hard drive is on its way out, running the test might actually kill it, it would have died anyways if that is the problem, but running a test that will stress the drive could accelerate things.

 

I had the idea to first take out the two additional ram-bars that I had placed a year ago and see what happens. What happened was that nothing happend, it just had a blackscreen. So I thought that probably the two original ram-bars must be defect. Half a year ago this notebook was in repair due to a display-thing, and the man said he also had cleaned the whole notebook inside. So what I saw this morning, surprise surprise, the two original ram-bars were gone. I've put the other two into the original slots and now let's see if there is a change. Thanks for posting so far,

Aki