M6600 Owners Thread

Has anyone used/using the nVidia A05 Driver from Dell?
Video_NV_W7W8_64_A05_311.10_X86RM_Setup_ZPE.exe

I have a couple of downloads of this which have varying file names and sizes. I attributed this issue with the problems they were having at the support site, which may or not be corrected.

The reason I ask is that at an earlier time when I tried, maybe, the initial version - there was an issue I recoiled at:

When closing/opening the lid there's the hardware insert/eject notification sound, bleep blop. I could never determine what was being turned off/on.

I'm setup to never sleep on timer, and the lid power setting is to do nothing, i.e., it will turn off/on the display when closed/opened but nothing else.

 

I believe you get this noise because the display itself is connecting/disconnecting. In a multi-monitor setup, the internal display will not be usable while the laptop is closed. You can actually see it disappear in Device Manager.

 

Thanks for that.

I'm going to give the most recent posted driver a try.

Whenever something is introduced that wasn't expected or disclosed it's kind of disconcerting. I've used R316049 since the beginning, of which I don't get that sound - but that doesn't mean it isn't doing what you describe. If that is "All it is", then hopefully it will be a good update for me.

 

Hey guys, been reading posts and happily working with my m6600 until I had a problem that has continued to snowball into something massive. I'm hoping that someone here may be able to help me out.

About a month ago my display would dim and the system would stutter on any graphic intensive program. I called Dell and the final solution was to replace the mobo and gpu. Afterwards the system was fine for a week until the screen suddenly went blank. I attempted force shutdown and reboot the system with an attached monitor but there was still no video. Another call to Dell lead to another mobo and gpu. Now after two days I am having the same issue but worse. The system will run fine but if anything that is graphic intensive (even a YouTube video) will cause the system to slow to a crawl even after the programs are closed. In addition my battery indicator seems to flash when this happens. I spoke to a tech today when it had occurred and I was surprised to find the system stating it was on battery power even though it was plugged in. Also the system calculated 8600 or so hours and 27 minutes of power remaining on the battery. I have rind talked windows, reinstalled all the drivers and updated drivers, I also tested all the hardware via Dell tech (online diagnostic tool) and the problem still exists. Atm Dell is looking into it however I now have a very expensive and time consuming netbook... Any suggestions on a possible fix? I would like it if Dell would just end a replacement system rather than picking parts (as this has gone on for almost a month now).

I apologize for the long post and thank you for taking a look at this (also I typed this on my itouch so I apologize to any typos as well).

 

Something simple to try:

Unplug AC from computer, Remove battery. Hold power button down for one minute. Reinsert battery, Reinsert AC Plug, Boot the computer.

 

I'm getting pretty tired of the Secondary HDD noise (I think I got a noisy WD Scorpio Black), so I'm thinking to buy a Samsung Pro 840 256 - yay.

Here's my dilemma, when the computer boots, if (secondary) internal hard drive is pass worded does it prompt immediately at boot?

I'd try it on my machine but I don't know the outcome because the HDD is mounted to the SSD using W7 relocated user profiles. Nor do I know what to expect if I didn't supply the unlock PW - wondering just what if anything will break or just not boot.

Edit:

Also, if the password is not supplied when prompted at boot (if it allows boot to continue) will it ask for a PW when accessing in Windows?

 

Hello all, I have been watching this forum for a while and have just recently had some problems with my m6600 I thought I'd share. It has the 2860qm processor, firepro m8900, 8 gigs ram, 128ssd, 750gb hd.

Anyways I was using it on the weekend and it was working great. Saturday night I left it on, when I checked it on Sunday morning it was just a black screen, but, backlit. I thought maybe it was in a screen saver or sleep mode or something. Anyways, I tried restarting multiple times, pulled the battery, reseated ram, etc, but still nothing. Called Dell and they shipped out a new motherboard and the tech showed up today, Tuesday, to install it. He installed the new motherboard, put the system back together, but it still wouldn't POST, and gave him another error, he read from the flashing lights, something about defective motherboard or cpu wasn't seated. He called Dell and requested another motherboard, io board, cpu, and gpu. Since Dell wasn't convinced it was the cpu, they are sending the motherboard, io board, and gpu, but not cpu for the tech to replace. Hopefully he gets the parts shortly and I can be back up and running soon. Using my alienware m14x r2 for business duties until my precision is fixed. Got my fingers crossed it's not the cpu otherwise there will be another scheduled shipment, repair, etc. I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

Currently using below driver from nVidia : NVIDIA DRIVERS 314.07WHQL

 

I'm guessing you guys have to use those for the games? How do they work for everything else?

 

so far so good with SC II / CATIA V5R20 / Inventor & SolidWorks... no longer using Optimus thou...