Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

try aliexpress for a new mobo, boards are cheaper there.

 

I think all that stuff comes from china, not worth it to me and I didn't see anything up there, the search seems to give you a lot of stuff that doesn't relate to keywords entered. Nah just going to part this thing out if there isn't a barebones one on ebay that's a sane price in the next month or so.

The CPU would almost pay for what it eventually cost me for the whole thing anyways, other components would get me back even more. But of course it will take time to part it out, worth it. Amazing what some people think an old laptop is worth but I guess others willing to pay the cost. For a little more, or even less, you can get a 1060/1070 newer laptop from what they're asking for a decked out m6700's w970m/980m or lower like Kxxxxm cards, crazy. Hard thing is finding 17", most are 15.6"

 

0.5, 1 or 1.5 mm of thick?

 

it depends on your need.

 

I have now been able to check and the BIOS is indeed the latest.

Do you think that the fact that sometimes the card sometimes is and sometimes isn't seen at all by the system (seemingly randomly) it's likely to be a hardware issue?

 

Hardware issue would most likely be an error code 43 in the windows device manager, is optimus enabled in the bios ?
Just in case you should reflash the K4000M bios, might corrupt overtime.. it's been 8 years since launch.

 

Thanks. I couldn't see optimus anywhere in the BIOS... Where would I find it?

Whether it's enabled or not, I didn't change anything in the BIOS between it working fine and then having this issue....

 

It's in the video section, on a page by itself. Running with Optimus disabled would basically disable the Intel GPU and leave the NVIDIA GPU active at all times.

 

That's what I thought, but there is no such page in my video section.... Only LCD brightness

 

Yes, there should be another option right above that one underneath "Video".
Something is definitely off here. Are you checking this at a time when your K4000M is "behaving" and visible? When it is not working, is it listed on the "System summary" section in the BIOS?

The Optimus option will be missing if there is no reason for it to be there. The only cases I can think of are if you have an eDP display panel installed (3D or IPS) in which case you are locked to NVIDIA only... or, if there was no dGPU present, in which case you are locked to Intel only. I'm wondering if your GPU card is really flaking out, or maybe there is an issue with the motherboard that is preventing it from being detected sometimes...