M6600 Owners Thread

Hey,

jup, I finally made it. Thx to robotti80 and zdroj!!!

The drive and the SSD fit and work perfectly so far. I just have one problem, that I dont know how to solve: when I start or reboot my M6600 then I see the following screen (see attached picture) that disappears after a moment, but if there is a way to avoid it I would be happy.
What I did in the bios so far is just set the Port where my SSD is in as primary booting option.
When I try to press CTRL to make changes it doesnt do anything...

Any ideas? Many thx!

 

Thanks for the tip. I will begin crafting meaningful messages soon. Looks like I've got a few to go.

 

This is the Intel (RAID) controller ROM configuration screen. You mus press CTRL+I to enter it, and you're able to configure your RAID (not much sense in your case, though...)

 

I'm reviving the above subject, because I noticed that one of the reasons of the clicks in my M6600's audio is Flash - when I open or refresh a webpage containing Flash animation/video, it makes the audio "click in anticipation "

I'm saying "one of the reasons" as sometimes, the same noise sounds without such an apparent connection at all... I have also tested whether it would be encoded in my Vegas Pro-rendered audio, and it unfortunately does - making this otherwise great laptop unusable for serious audio/video editing!

Anyone (Bokeh) tested theirs?

 

m8900 works fine with cad and max ?

with photoshop , the difference with 3000m is big or not ?

 

Thx. So that means I have to deal with that screen in the beginning and I cant do anything about it?

 

I dont have this screen.
I just changed from RAID to AHCI in BIOS before I began to install Windows 7 on my SSD.
My system disk is in the hot swap bay on the right side of the laptop. (near USB3.0 and DisplayPort connector)

 

Hm, cant find the AHCI in the Bios... where can I change that?

 

Its the sata setting..per the docks:

SATA Operation Allows you to configure the internal SATA
hard-drive controller. The options are:
• Disabled
• ATA
• AHCI
• RAID On
Default Setting: RAID On


Page 119 of this document:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/wsm6600/en/SM/sm_en.pdf

 

I also just received my machine on Friday, and received the dreaded display. I found the forum very helpful in making my decision, but have had nothing to offer as posts. Please PM me and I will forward my Service Tag Monday morning. Thanks to everyone for all the reviews, they were the reason I chose this machine over the others.