M4700 Owners Thread

Still crashing randomly. it crash more often when connected to a Dvi through a displayport adaptor.

 

Hi there,

Hope you're all well - I'm part of the Social Outreach Services team at Dell, usually I check out the posts on Twitter but I've had this thread alerted to me.

Dave - the part number for the LVDS cable for FHD screens is NV9R0, hope that helps!

Hi elzuma,

Just read back through the posts to see what issue you're getting and it definitely does seem to be graphics related. I know that you've updated the driver but I'm wondering if there's any hardware issues causing this.

If it's okay with you, can you try running the PC Diagnostics here: Dell PC Diagnostics | Dell UK and let me know if you receive any error codes?

Do you only receive these blue screen errors when you have your external monitor connected?

Hope to hear from you soon!

 

Thanks for the info

ordered a FHD LVDS cable

 

Not a problem, glad I could help.

 

Hi guys. My M4700 is on its way and I decided to search for HDD caddy that would replace the optical drive. I googled it and here's what I found: 2nd HDD /SSD Caddy, DELL M6400, M6500, M4600, M4700, M6600,M6700 [OBHD9-SATA-SATA-B] - $42.00 : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks

Has anyone ordered from them or tried this caddy?

 

I got mine off eBay for about half that price.

 

Hi,

can anybody tell me the Part Number for the 55Watt Heatsink from the M4700 and the Part Number for the 9mm HDD Caddy because the PDG96 seeem to be only for 7mm Drives (check Post #1269 at http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...1-dell-precision-m6700-owners-thread-127.html)

And one last question - where can i buy those Dell Parts with the Partnumber? Because the Sales Rep couldn't answer this question.

 

Dunno about the specific part numbers here, but to order my M6700 heatsink, I called Dell spare parts (800-357-3355) and talked to a sales rep from there. These don't seem to be reps that do only spare parts, it took him a little while to find mine (he was looking for stuff that normally shows up on the web site, memory and whatever), but once I explained that this was the part number given by a technician, something clicked and he was able to get it for me.

 

Dell has a parts department, you can order from them, usually the sales rep knows where to transfer your call, you could always try support or chat support, they can also redirect you to the right place.

 

SATA to SATA 2nd Hard Drive HDD Caddy For Dell Precision M4700 M6700 DV-18SA

Works like a charm !

Other nice upgrades on eBay are:

* The slice battery

* New Dell Precision M4600 M6600 US Black Backlit Keyboard - works like a charm on the M4700 - thanks dave-p !