Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

Man, replaced each of one of those lines and still not working, i am so screwed up, sad part i can't return it seller won't accept returns. It keeps saying after i mod all those differents id, force installation stuff. Restart and nothing. I appreciate your effort but seems this is not going to work. Optimus is off on BIOS, i will put that in the garbage

 

Where you get your GTX980m card? I have ordered new 980m from ebay and now i have k3000m in my dell m6700.
Seller says that i have to mod those inf files, but i have seen that someones wrote they havent mod
anything and gtx980m works just fine in m6700

 

Used from eBay, but drivers don't install it correctly

 

It works unmodded with drivers released late last year or earlier this year. This is not normally the case. The latest drivers must be modded.

 

Whilst it may say on the seller page that they don't accept returns, they do. Open a case saying it doesn't work and the seller will have no choice but to accept a return.

 

he clearly wrote it **NO RETURNS** if somebody is interested i will sell it and stick with the k4100m i have

 

He could've wrote he was god but it doesn't make it true.

 

eBay has some guarantees in place. If someone sells you something defective, you can open a case with them and they can basically force a return. (You would have to contact the seller and try to work things out first, but as stated, just because it says "no returns" doesn't mean that it is OK for them to sell you something that is advertised as working but does not work.)

That said I don't think that it is a clear-cut case that the card "does not work" even though I don't have any more suggestions as to how to get it to work. Installing unsupported GPUs in these systems is always a risk.
What vBIOS version does it have? I wonder if you would have more luck with a different one.

 

My BIOS version is a20, i have read somewhere that latest BIOS would give some issues with some cards, but weird is that for once i installed it and suddenly worked but as i stated i have the brilliant idea to update the drivers and things got wrong since then, BIOS of GPU is gm204 or something like that. I really had the idea somehow i broke it in some way as weird it sounds.

Interesting part is that if i install K4100M audio is broken... I tried everything but i just hear sometimes a buzz when i try to resolve audio stuff, installed the Dell audio driver it installs but it doesn't give me sound from speakers even Windows shows it as it is working properly, also closing the lid or if it goes to sleep it won't come back. Meanwhile with the GTX 980M worked perfectly with audio and sleep or closing the lid... although it may install the drivers it won't work, as i stated is a Clevo one.

I opened the return case, hope i recover the money. I am wondering what card could i install? I was really thinking going with the 8970m, R9 m290x or the w7170m, but as somebody stated here fan control does not work so i guess it would always will be spinning but at least AMD gives support to older cards. Seems going to GTX 8xx is not really a good idea too.

Or any Nvidia better than k4100m that won't be a pain in the ass to install and avoid all this stuff?

*edit seller sent the return main label so at least i will recover the money, but really what card could i install?

 

I am satisfied with M5000M. They are expensive on eBay but you can probably get it around 980M price from someone with "make an offer" option.
I have had a few different problems with the Dell audio drivers in this system so I just use the Microsoft ones (shows up as "High Definition Audio Device"). The IDT company that made the audio chip got purchased shortly after the M6700 launch and driver support dried up quickly under the new owner. M6800 and all later systems use a Realtek audio chip.
There is an option for fan control with the newer AMD cards (see my signature for a link).