M4800 Owner's Thread

M4800 has room for a MXM 3.0a and M6800 has room for a MXM 3.0b card. As far as I know, Quadro K3100M and up are only available as MXM 3.0b cards so they will not fit in the M4800.
(Here's a picture: http://www.techpowerup.com/img/14-02-25/63a.jpg)
The two formats are electronically identical — The difference is just the physical size of the card.

 

They're incompatible due to being the larger MxM form factor ( so they won't fit).


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Hello people,

After a lot of frustration I ended up getting a replacement screen for my M4800.

I was in contact with 8 or more businesses both in Australia and overseas before I found one that was happy to cooperate. Most of them were not willing to sell me a specific model of panel, only those which they deemed 'compatible' replacements for my original. A majority were not interested in helping me, nor did they seem to know much about screens in general or even speak English very well.

I eventually discovered a model that was both compatible and available and found a vendor on eBay that agreed to check for and guarantee absolutely no dead pixels. I will not mention their name, but they are probably the largest seller of replacement screens on eBay, from the United Kingdom, with 18k+ items listed, 72k+ sales and high positive feedback. Their service was very professional, the panel arrived quickly and it was indeed in perfect condition. This cost me about US$150 but I feel it was worth it. I mention all of this here in gratitude to them.


For the benefit of others wanting to replace/upgrade their FHD/1080p TN LCD Panel (40 Pin LVDS):

My original screen was a: Chimei Innolux N156HGE-L11
http://www.panelook.com/N156HGE-L11_Innolux_15.6_LCM_overview_16512.html

The highly rated, but now discontinued, matte, high colour gamut replacement is the: AU Optronics B156HW01V4
http://www.panelook.com/B156HW01 V4_AUO_15.6_LCM_overview_686.html

The currently available version of this is the: AU Optronics B156HTN01.1
http://www.panelook.com/B156HTN01.1_AUO_15.6_LCM_overview_20471.html


The screen was a definite upgrade, it looks great and the colour is indeed very vibrant. I will learn how to calibrate it properly in the near future to make the most of it.

Thanks for your support and hopefully this experience will help someone else.

Luke

 

I got some Bad news...

I entered into what seems like a twilight zone episode of Dell support, where they: repair to, break to, dispatch to, repair to, break to, frustrate, to waste time, to make even more people involved. so even more time can be wasted.

so far 3 dispatches resulting in 0 resolve. this I did not anticipate after being happy for a year after swap, Now the replacement of parts commenced.

I found some interesting details such as, they replaced my alleged bad GPU based on Samsung chips with Hynix based GPU that performs 10% less. They also replaced screen scratched by technician (accidentally I'm sure) with brand new that has a dead pixel in the middle!

while doing that new motherboard got damaged needing another motherboard! wow, just wow.

I'm In contact with head office, but to get there I had to go through following:

Downtime currently 27 days!

1. Indian office support guy 1,
2. Manager of support guy 2,
3. Customer support office of support 3
4. Polish head office 4,name starts with (Ag) seems to have issues actually reading emails. (writes in replys what she wants to hear instead of actually replying to what I ask) Dell new practice?

Prime suspect is: third party hardware and technician dispatching companies that get money on dispatches, support people get hours on initiating dispatches. so we got corrupt loop.

my conclusion is that any machine is good for 1 year only. then it goes into you feeding others, and needing to buy product from another company, get frustrated after a year and switch. and so on...

 

I've managed to get my case sorted by the head of UK business support, so it's possible.

I ended up sending a mass email bomb to all the top Dell execs, along with the UK managing director.

 

Hi there,

I have few questions for the owners of M4800, which I have ordered but havent received yet as it's in customization status. I am thankful for your answers in advance.

• it comes with 4K screen which I think might be overkill for 15" screen (for the software I use). Previous 3K displays would have been great, but they are now discontinued. Will I be able to lower the resolution to 3K as crisp as 4K ie without blurrings, fuzzyness etc ? I definitely need resolution higher than FHD. (Such a shame that 17" 3/4K displays dont exist as of today)
  
• I don't care about optical drive (DVD rom). Is it possible to swap it with SSD card later on ?
  
  
  Thanks!
  plx

 

I'm not sure about your first question, but you can definitely swap out the optical drive for a caddy holding an SSD. I got mine from newmode.us but I'm sure other places sell them. Anything compatible with an M4600/4700/4800 should work.


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If you run a LCD at non-native resolution, you will get some blurrings/fuzzyness, because it has to scale the image up to display at the native resolution. You can try cranking up the DPI scaling setting in Windows instead, to make objects on the screen larger while still running at 4K native resolution. Success depends on how well each specific app that you use handles DPI scaling (but you'd probably need to increase it for a 3K 15" display anyway, so, you'd be in the same boat).

 

My M4800 has the problem that fullscreen applications lose focus or are being minimized for no appearant reason. No message windows or other windows pop up. This causes things like 3DMark to fail because it requires undisturbed fullscreen display. Anyone else having this issue with their M4800?

 

This hardly seems a M4800-specific problem. It looks like something in your Windows config, possibly related to some third-party add-on you installed. You might have more luck getting a helpful answer in a generic Windows support forum.