M6600 Owners Thread

Hmm. I installed that driver yesterday and my screen brightness fn stopped working. I had to uninstall it and revert to the older driver. Other than that I didn't have a BSOD. I hope your issue sorts itself out.

 

Same, anything newer than 12.10 or m6700 driver broke my screen brightness.

 

Graphics Drivers from the Intel site have shown to not be able to use the brightness functionality of M6600 - my past experience.

Are you saying you have this same problem with: from Dell: Win7-8_64_15.28.7_2867_setup_ZPE, version A10 - or just a blue screen issue?

I still have A09 on the other machine and have been thinking to reimage shortly and could test update before reimage.

Thanks.

 

GPU temp getting high, to clean GPU fan, I need to take the heatsink out iirc?

 

I think Bokeh said that is how it has to be done for the GPU fan. Also think the manual-guide states the same. Personally I just remove the backcover often and use air before it builds up. Q-tips might help a little; make sure to remove battery.

Edit: The backcover can't be removed without first removing the battery. But still remove battery if leaving cover intact and using air.

 

That confirms my thought.

Noticed that if the machine have some hardware accelerated software(browser even) running, the m8900 go up to 2d clock(400mhz) and hog alot of power. Sometime I disable powerplay so it stuck at 100mhz, almost double battery life compare to 400mhz. (1hour compare to almost 2)

 

Does anyone know if HWMonitor can be ran under a standard Windows account without the secure desktop admin prompt?
I've given the acct. full permissions on the CPUID folder and launch shortcuts but it still raises the prompt. I don't want to lower UAC setting as a workaround.

Another question - I assume that's the program many use around here to check up on temperature, or is there another one better suited?

 

I used/use many programs to check temps, I haven't tried to set them to run with admin rights by default though. When I get the prompt on a regular account, I just enter the admin password (I use a regular user account for my daily stuff), but I do realize that can be a problem if you're not both the user and admin.

Here's what I usually use depending on the amount of info I want (All require admin rights):
Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU): You can get some nice info out of it, like heat generated, reference clocks, etc. It only checks the CPU though.
GPU-Z: That one is great to get more info about the GPU, including memory used, clocks, etc.
HWiNFO64: Best free all rounder I have found so far, it even includes fan speed info. It does require a bit of setting up in the sense that it does give too much info on default configuration in my opinion and that makes for a rather clogged up sensor window.
Throttlestop: CPU only, but it has wealth of information, be careful with that one though as the name implies it was initially made to circumvent throttling schemes from manufacturers and as such allows you to alter some CPU settings you may not want to. I've used TS to overclock the hell of the 920xm in my G73JH, on demand software overclock is nice.
There is also AIDA64, but it isn't free.

GPU-Z, HWiNFO and TS offer portable versions which I prefer since I can have them on a thumb drive ready to troubleshoot temp issues on any computers. XTU requires installation.

 

@tijo

Awesome - - the XTU! That gives me a lot more confidence and trust.

I'm with you on using a standard account for normal activities - big part of a security strategy. Yeah, two computers setup that way plus I just gave the admin accounts stronger passwords.

I'll try the HWiNFO64 (I was getting confused w/ HWMonitor, which I don't care for but all I could remember) and then certainly will give GPU-Z a try (saw that in your post in the M6700 thread).

Much Appreciated.

 

After last trial no longer enable the Optimus now only running on nVidia with 314.07-quadro-notebook-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql from it's website... so far so good