M4800 Owner's Thread

Hello,

I am a recent owner of M4800 and I have some questions:

1/Can someone give a link to a compatible MSATA drive ? Or can I order any of them? Is there something that I should pay attention ?

2/I got "the beast" with min configuration and upgraded it myself (RAM + Caddy + Another dd instead of dvd etc.) . I also ordered a SSD (samsung pro 840) drive. When I read about ssd drives on the web, there are a lot of tweaking articles about it. Are all these tweaks really necessary ? If yes what would be the main points ( I don't want to follow these guides, one guy even suggests to disable recycle bin)

3/I discovered a strange guest on my computer ; user named ''UpdatusUser" . I searched a little, it is created by nvidia drivers. It is said that it will be sufficient to uninstall whole driver pack and reinstall by not choosing nvidia update. The thing is that when removed and reinstalled there wasn't a component named "nvidia update". Has anyone found a solution to remove this? Which component should I omit ? The driver I am installing is "Video_nVidia_W7W8W81_64_A07_327.62_GKPWX_Setup_ZPE".

4/Very silly question perhaps but : How do you know when nvidia kicks in and when intel takes control. I am asking this because I previouly used Sony vaio serie z which has also optimus technology and I was able to force him to use nvidia or intel by a simple switch on the keyboard. How to you set your M4800's graphic card settings ?

Thanks a lot your time

T.

 

Which screen do you have? If it's not 1080p, you will not have Optimus.


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The bulletproof msata ssd work for me.

 

I have 1080p. Is there a way to know when nvidia kicks in or a way to say to the computer "I want you to use intel now".

 

Thanks, that's very helpful. I found one, I think I'll get it

 

Any mSATA drive should work.

You don't have to tweak the SSD much with Windows 7/8. Partition alignment will be done automatically. (If you're cloning another drive to your SSD, just make sure that your clone software is reasonably current.) Windows 7 and 8 automatically disable things like superfetch and auto defragmenting which harm an SSD more than they help. Some people suggest that you "over provision your drive" by, say, allocating only 80% of the space to a partition. This way, if your drive "fills up", there will still be extra blocks available so that you don't end up re-writing the same ones over and over to wear them out faster. While it isn't really necessary to reduce the partition size to accomplish this, you do want to be mindful that you don't keep the SSD near-full on a regular basis.

 

Don't let tiller hear you say that...


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As a matter of fact,it will be fresh install and I intend to apply the same schema I applied to my previous laptop : One drive only for applications (which will be on SSD), all user profiles, programdata, and swap will on the mechanic drive I bought. (I got a 1 TO sata and replaced DVD drive with it on a caddy). So There won't be much write action on system drive except program installation. So if I understand well, after regular win 7 installation the only thing to do would be to just check some points like prefetch and defrag to be sure that system automatically took actions for SSD. Thanks for your time

 

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Last Friday I received a replacement M4800. Unfortunately it has the same problem with display not coming back on after I close the lid.

Could anybody with QHD+ display try to go into BIOS and close and then open the lid ? Did your screen stay black after you open the lid while in BIOS ?

I'd like to find out whether there are M4800 with QHD+ display that DO NOT suffer from the 'black screen' problem?

Please try it and reply in this thread.

Thank you!