M6600 Owners Thread

No SATA 3 for the ODD.

SATA 3 is reserved for 2 HDDs and the 1 mSATA.

 

Cheers Ryan, can it still be RAIDed?

 

1. The HM67M chipset allocates SATA-III to ports 0 and 1 only, which are the two primary HDD ports. The remaining optical, mSATA, and eSATA are all SATA-II.

2. Those eBay caddys are not good since the faceplate does not match the system. You would need to remove the faceplate to make it "work", but then you have an ugly drive frame sticking out the side of your system.

3. Many SATA controllers offer selectable modes of operation: legacy Parallel ATA emulation, standard AHCI mode, or vendor-specific RAID (which generally enables AHCI in order to take advantage of its capabilities). Intel recommends choosing RAID mode on their motherboards (which also enables AHCI) rather than AHCI/SATA mode for maximum flexibility. Legacy mode is a software backward-compatibility mechanism intended to allow the SATA controller to run in legacy operating systems which are not SATA-aware or where a driver does not exist to make the operating system SATA-aware. Ref: Advanced Host Controller Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scott-

 

Yes, it is fine. The AUO panel is separate from the digitizer layer.

Scott-

 

I believe you need to set the application to NOT apply the profile(s) you have saved when the system boots in order to regain default system based control. There is a check box in the utility you can un-tick to do this. Otherwise, you can try removing the utility if it doesn't suit your needs.

Scott-

 

Yes, I have both and have reported my findings in these NBR forums regarding both systems.

In summary, the L702x is nice and somewhat robust, but the M6600 is an overall superior business class machine that will serve you better in both the reliability and durability depts. Additionally, the M6600 will allow you to update/upgrade the major components as needed where the L702x will only let you do the CPU and memory - not the GPU. Likewise, the M6600 has a better cooling system that does not need to run as aggressively or loud as the L702x. I have retired my L702x.

Scott-

 

Scott you are an invaluable fountain of information. Thanks heaps!

 

Ah I was confused with the M4600..

Yup Scott is invaluable on these forums!

 

Received my new M6600 a couple days ago with IPS panel. (See signature.) I look forward to comparing it to my M6500's RGB LED panel, but am having some problems setting it up.

Sorry for the long post, but note that first I did read every post in this thread, including the posts about order of installation and I also referred to the Dell Re-Image How-To guide.
I did a fresh install but I was leery of installing all Dell stuff to keep the install as clean and streamlined as possible. So I didn't install the Dell System Software, or some other stuff. Then after I installed everything I see I have 3 yellow bangs in Device Manager.
I followed the order of installation, but again, some of the stuff I left out.

Q1) Am I correct that I can leave these 3 yellow bangs and not worry about them, since in particular the one named Broadcom USG is related to Dell Control Vault (I think) and this is one that Bokeh said I could leave off - at least I think he was referring to this one when he said "The only one that will slow down your system in the form of longer boot times is the Security Application. If you need the enhanced security, install it. If you don't, I would leave it off."
In Appendix C the Dell "How-To" Re-Image guide it says this USH yellow bang requires the "Control Point Security Device Driver Pack". I assume this is what Bokeh was referring to, but I'm not sure of which component this is on the Drivers and Downloads page for the M6600 Win7 x64. All these things have slightly different names across the 1rst, 2nd and 3rd generations of machines that this Re-Image document refers to.
Q2) Does this refer to the one item under Control Point category, that being "ControlPoint System Manager" or does it refer to one of the four items under the Security category, maybe the "ControlVault"?
This ControlVault has two of the four listings under the Security category, one is called Dell-Driver and one is called Dell-Firmware.

Q3) The 2nd yellow bang is for PCI Serial Port and this Appendix C in the Re-Image guide lists two a couple different drivers that should be installed to fix this, but it lists a couple for 1st generation machines and it lists one for 2nd generation machines, but the M6600 is a 3rd generation machine and it says nothing about 3rd generation for this yellow bang! It also does not say where to get these drivers listed.

Q4) The third yellow bang is for Unknown device and it says that this is for the FreeFall sensor. I purposely didn't install this because, as I said, I want to keep it lean and I don't need a freefall sensor since I have an SSD. But does this freefall sensor add zero overhead so I should install it, or should I leave it off and not worry about the yellow bang?

Q5) Here's the main problem after all of the fresh installation:
My brightness adjustment does not work on the computer. The keyboard Fn shortcut adjusts the slider, but it does not change the brightness at all! Of course adjusting the brightness slider manually also does nothing.

 

So, why the strange "1|2" devices when on internal display only?!! Do you see the same, or is it a bug here?