M6600 Owners Thread

I got the Premier Colour from their website. I notice there is a difference between the one from Dell and the one directly from portrait display. Dell's is 1.02 and the PremierColor one is 1.03.

I will try uninstalling PC and then install Dell's version to see if that works, because the direct PC keeps crashing IE and other things.

BTW, I just tried to change the brightness using Fn + up down arrows and it does not work. Thought I had fixed that, but to be honest I never use that anyway so do not know when it stopped working.

Good luck with the new SSD and reimaging. Is it your main SSD? I have been thinking of getting a caddy and putting an HD in the media bay. Could be useful for back ups etc.

 

There is no reason to install premier color if you don't have the rgb ips iirc.

 

Quick update to my previous posts.
It's been over a month now, since I replaced M8900 with R6990m. Works like a charm. It truly was a P'nP thing and because I was on Radeon drivers (instead of genuine FirePro ones) I didn't even need to reinstall the driver. Temperatures are even slightly lower than previously - I didn't replace the thermopads (arrived to late) and I get 2-3 'C lower temps anyway.
I didn't try to change vbios with the M8900 one, because I just don't feel any need to do so, but it is possible too.
Upgraded it to i7-2820m, 16GB RAM and mSATA SSD - works muuuch better now.

 

It came installed with the laptop, and from memory IPS was not available when I bought it.

 

Driver conflict:

Hi. Last few months I've been experiencing a frustrating slowdown at times: while seemingly pushing the gpu, the cpu load will peg itself at ~80-100% and freeze up the system for 3-4 minutes.
Long story short: I'm almost certain it's not the hardware or cooling, not a virus, and I can't recreate it in Safe Mode. Therefore at this point I'm convinced it's a driver or an update for the M6600.

Has anyone else experienced a similar freeze situation? Any ideas on driver conflict? I can expand on the many different variables I've toyed with so far if it helps.

Thanks!

 

Try cleaning up cooling system for starters. Sometimes dust accumulates and clogs heatsinks what translates to system slowdowns/shutdowns under load.

 

Hi. I actually have blown out the fans (which were barely dusty), and my system has never actually shut down during one of these freezes. Also, last night I ran 8 hours of Prime95 with no errors. The cpu temps obviously got to 85-92, but the gpu sat at 54.
I honestly was hoping it was just a heatsink or other cooling error, but no logs, temperature readings or BSOD's/restarts would indicate this.

Thanks for the suggestion though, any other ideas?

 

Can someone help me out here, I'm stuck.

I put the new Samsung 840 in the primary bay, put the original Dell 830 in the secondary bay.

When I get to the configure drives form it is listing the secondary bay as disk 0 and wants to install windows there.

I can't figure out in diskpart how to change the path id to the 840 and make it 0. Currently it is 1.

Man I'm really stuck here


Edit more info added: Both are PCI 0 and Channel ID for 840 is C01T00L00.

Thanks.

 

Try without the original dell drive in the notebook, something else you can do is also check whether the original drive registers as disk 1 or disk 0 when it's in the main bay. Maybe the ports are wired as SATA-1 to the main bay and SATA-0 to the secondary bay. The number doesn't really matter in the end though. I ran the OS on my desktop on SATA-1 for almost a year without issues, the number is just there to differentiate the drives and has no effect on normal operation apart of how you set the boot order.

 

It is the weirdness thing. I was just going to swap them back and see what gives.
Once the OS is loaded all is ok. I installed the OS with the secondary 830 out because it would not install properly with it there. The 840 then was listed under SATA 0.

I'm wondering if there is something added to the OEM drive for this behavior to happen.




Now I remember member Tenchi a few months ago was really stuck with this too.

Is there a way to change the location path?