M6600 Owners Thread

Haha, great to know that everything worked out well for you

 

Hey, out of interest, what drivers are people with the firepro m8900 currently running? According to TechPowerUp GPU-Z, I am on atiumdag 8.982.0.0 (Catalyst 12.8) / Win7 64. I tried 13.1 the other day but it didn't work.

 

You can go to amd website to update your drivers. Latest being 9.03. I am using it. It is ok

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I went to the AMD site, typed in the info for my computer, m6600, win7, etc, and downloaded the 'latest' drivers. I'm now on 'atiumdag 9.3.3.0 (Catalyst 12.8) / Win 7 64. Don't know if it will make a big difference but bioshock infinite was telling me I should update to the latest, bla, bla, bla, so I thought it was time to do it.

UPDATED: Actually, here is what it is displayed in my catalyst pro control centre:
9.003.3-121120a-150831C-Dell

 

Haven't posted here for quite some time - my M6600 has been behaving very well
Now I'd like to replace the optical drive with a HDD, and need your advise. AFAIK, some tray is needed for it - what's the Dell part number, or eBay source to buy from?

Cheers

Piotr

 

You need a hard drive caddy - something like this.

 

Thanks a lot - can you direct me to the correct one of the lot under the link you provided? They are advertised as universal, but do I need the one that is explicitly said to be compatible with M6600? How about the outside bezel?

 

Just look that description has following: sata to sata and that is 9.5mm.

For my current laptop (hp 8530p) i actually bought caddy that is advertised as caddy for Asus laptops as i was a cheap and wanted to spend minimum amount of money. Works like a charm since they are universal.

And about bazel - afaik you should be able to remove bazel from your optical drive and fit it onto caddy. At least i was able to do so with ones i ordered a month ago.

 

Has anyone tried the latest release for DDPA:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...0712-m6600-owners-thread-597.html#post9158653

I'm curious, just installed it and Firmware - all seems to be working great, however during reading got confused and installed the software first when it should've been Firmware. Now, they've added fingerprint reader to the list of options when accessing an administrator account on the secure desktop from a standard account, but it says "your fingerprints have not been enrolled for authentication".
I reran DDPA repair mode, no change. I could probably uninstall it and try again but there might be something less dramatic that could be done to make it operational.

It would be a nice feature to have instead of typing.

 

Update: Working! Success!

It appears Wave DDPA and/or the new firmware is integrated somewhat with Windows Biometrics now.

In order to get the Secure Desktop fingerprint reader working you'll need to first setup DDPA, reboot and login.
Go back into DDPA /Advanced - Disable Dell Secure Access. Reboot. You'll see you have all user account tiles plus a fingerprint reader tile - use it.
Back into DDPA and uncheck Disable Dell Secure Access (should re-enable itself).

Now when you're in a standard account and receive a prompt requiring Admin Permissions you can just swipe! Complex Passwords won't be so hard type.

Edit: Also seems to scan better - whether or not it was from the firmware or a lowering of the failure threshold.

You'd think there would be an easier way to coordinate with Windows and get this done with a setting somewhere. Maybe there is - just don't know where to look.

Edit 2: See here