Dell Precision M6700 Owners Thread

It is connected by LVDS.

 

I went searching and there were a lot of results for the word TRIM as it also includes the TRIM function for stripping the space characters from the ends of a string. I've found a couple of links and the first one from MSDN Engineering Windows 7 blogs resembles what I was referring to in a recent post about providing a link.
Probably helps a little bit to identify the naming conventions as they seem to be somewhat interchangeable from author to author:

Trim Operation is the Trim attribute of the ATA protocol’s Data Set Management command and should replace my previously referring to it as the TRIM function.
TRIM command I'll let stand as it refers to invoking the Windows Optimization features for SSD's which includes the Trim Operation. Windows installation executes the command automatically with the presence of a SSD for OS. I presume cloning software also takes care of this automatically. It can be manually called through the Windows command prompt as TRIM.
Edit: Ooops. Not exactly the syntax for the TRIM command, here it is: FSUTIL DisableDeleteNotify (It's been awhile, my bad - still referred to as TRIM command)

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tijo, I went back and read through the posts and realize that I was focusing heavily on the primary-OS drive and HDD/SSD config. instead of the secondary drive where reducing writes through windows optimization doesn't apply, except for the trim operation. That is my fault for not switching gears, stuck. That being said, I think then, that there is significant truth to what you are saying. The video or media file(s) though would still have to be stored somewhere if the secondary SSD was dedicated to a swap file.

 

For those with the M6700 and the IPS display... does the system come with antenna leads for WWAN? The Dell website won't let me configure one with both IPS and WWAN. I ask because Bokeh's review post shows antenna leads already present for the empty WWAN slot in his system. Here's the error message:

The Mobile Broadband Card is not available with the 17.3" UltraSharp™ FHD(1920x1080) PremierColor IPS RGB or the 17.3" UltraSharp™ FHD (1920x1080) NVIDIA® 3D Vision Pro LCD selection. Please change one of these selections.

In other words, I need the TN panel to get WWAN.

 

Your accessories come in packages now. You can thank your favorite car manufacturer for that. Look on the bright side, you get better integration and balance this way. It's also, typically cheaper than piecemeal purchases.

 

Not sure if anyone already post this info, that Mx700 does not support Corsair 1866Mhz RAM.

I bought 4pcs 4Gb ram CMSX8GX3M2A1866C10. No matter how i pair with 4 or only 2 pcs the system is very unstable, sometimes will not powerup (auto shutdown after 5sec, or no display), or bluescreen during windows startup. 0.00% chance of booting into windows.

Switch back to the default 2x2Gb 1333Mhz ram and everything is fine.

 

Just saw this morning that my M6700 shipped.

 

Hooray!
Waiting for the transit is the worst - what's the ETA?

 

It'll be at least 2 days given that right now it's in the US and it has to cross the border into the wild lands of Canadia and then get shipped to my home. I'd say the initial estimate of the 4th of October is going to be pretty accurate.

 

Wait a minute. Are you sure these issues are due to lack of support? And is that only Corsair RAM? That's strange, don't you think?

What about the RAM sticks themselves. Is there a possibility they could be a defective in some way?

 

Just enabled intel rapid start technology using the instructions in this thread on Dell's website:
Re: Intel Rapid Start Technology - Laptop General Hardware Forum - Laptop - Dell Community
see dell white paper:
http://en.community.dell.com/cfs-fi...33/Intel-Responsiveness-technologies-0.91.pdf

There seems to be a lot of confusion online on what IRST is. It is not the same thing as SRT or RST.

IRST (intel rapid start technology) - is a power saving fast resume technology. It is basically hibernation on steroids.
SRT (smart response technology) - is SSD caching paired with a spinning HDD
RST (rapid storage technology) - Intels SATA driver/software package (note you need this to use SRT).

It beats hibernation big time, way faster.
1. You need to enable it in bios (I set the timer to 0 to always do it instead of power consuming sleep).
2. Create a new hibernation partition (probably need to shrink you existing partition first)
Use diskpart
cmd
select disk 0 (or whatever you boot disk is)
create partition primary size=8192 id=84 (size should match installed RAM, and id determines that it is a hibernation partition)
3. reboot
4. run the Intel Rapid Start driver installer from within windows.
5. your done

sleep (notice the pinned hd activity light for a couple seconds)
wake (pinned hd light for a couple seconds, then viola full functionality).