M6600 Owners Thread

You can probably fix it yourself by using black epoxy to close up the crack and make it more subtle. If you want it to disappear entirely you can paint over it or add some stickers to the palm rest. I don't think it's a big enough issue to be brought up to Michael Dell's attention though, he's probably too busy tackling other issues.

On a related subject you can also put on an entire design layer on top of the keyboard area to make any visible defects invisible, and also to protect it from being scratched in the future:



Has anyone been able to get Eyefinity to work with Windows 8? The catalyst control center doesn't seem to have any Eyefinity options available, and I really want it to work like in this video: Dell Precision M6600 with a 3-display Eyefinity powered by AMD FirePro - YouTube supporting 3 external and 1 internal monitors at once!

 

Looking around Microsoft Support I inadvertently came across this: Disk drive numbers may not correspond as expected to the SATA channel numbers when you install Windows on a computer that has multiple SATA or RAID disks

I've posted since it relates to the behavior experienced when relocating a Dell/Samsung OEM SSD to the secondary bay and subsequent trouble enumerating the SATA channels correctly. The OEM firmware still asserts enumeration over SATA channel assignment. Either by design or unintended consequence - it is what it is.

 

Try to press for an 17.3" AUO B173HW01 V.5
Specify also, No substitutes!
It's a nice screen.

Here's the NBR thread from where I was able to search it out: http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...91470-lcd-advice-photoshop-auo-vs-chimei.html

It is all throughout our thread but hard to find.

Good luck. Maybe DIY, the hardest part is getting the bezel back on. If you DIY just make sure to get the bezel bottom in first when reassemble. Exactly reverse from disassembly - like the instructions specify.

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Edit FYI: just in case that is not the exact part number just tell them you want the AUO Matte.

 

I told em 4 times now i want the AOU Matte screen but noone seems to be listening. I'm getting yet another screen on monday - will c how it goes. Since i have to leave notebook at repaircenter and they wont let me be present for replacement i have to hope they wont do any mass like first company did (warped my lid and palmrest a bit)

DIY really isnt an option at this time as i dont have any extra $$ laying around- mybe in a month or two as my first priority now is new tv

 

Tell them the LCD part number (no substitutes) and have them ship it directly to you then DIY and return the bad one. Shouldn't have to take off the palm rest either unless the cable is bad. I hear you, tech's are bad here too - not just in Croatia. I went through this with 6 screens. Keep on them.

darkydark,

Here is the exact (Dell internal part number) for the AUO Matte anti-glare 17.3 LCD,

Dell P/N: H8D3K

 

Does anyone know what they replace these with now when they don't want to fix them anymore? I have a 2720 with touch screen, AMD, and Blue Ray.

 

Don't know what you mean by: when they don't want to fix them anymore. If it's under warranty they'll replace it. After that there's aftermarket. One would think the LCD Mfg's would do better work but then again there's only a few of them and demand seems high.
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I have a question regarding SSD writes. It is known that if an existing file (say a picture) occupying pages in a block address is opened and saved with changes the file will be rewritten completely to empty pages in another cleared block and the previous pages are marked for deletion. This is the known wearing that occurs with SSD's unlike HDD's where the change is made within the bits.

Not to be the grand inquisitor or worrier - but I get to wondering and can't find any specifics: what happens when a 500MB database is opened and one record is changed? Certainly one would hope the entire database isn't rewritten and I don't think that it is - there doesn't seem to be that kind of activity going on. Nonetheless I don't know absolutely because I don't have tools to view this activity.
I'm pretty sure that with file based databases - groups of records are stored within pages and a single record change would only effect that pages' changes.
I'm being careful not to carelessly destroy the longevity of my SSD by constantly resaving minor changes to files immediately.

Anyone know about this?

 

If the 500MB database is one single file, we could be talking about the same behaviour that you detailed above. Otherwise, if the dabase is more files, only the file that experiences changes might get writen.

 

Yeah, spent a good amount of time trying to search this out and came up with nothing about it anywhere. That I couldn't find anything about it is probably a good thing.
I'm going to assume that MS Access databases operate somewhat similar to Outlook, that is Outlook isn't rewriting the entire PST container file for an incoming mail, appointment, flagging etc. (I think we'd hear about it). There is the Access laccdb ext. file for record locking so I think/hope the way the engine works is to isolate records into pages with pointers and only that page gets rewritten (doesn't matter if there are a couple records in the page or not). The database is already split into frontend/backend but I'd consolidated a lot of tables into the one backend on the previous HDD. Definitely would be a consideration to re-split the tables back into many backend containers if there is a problem.

Going to download CrystalDiskInfo and see if it will provide some insight.

 

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it really depends on the program itself. Like you said MS Access database only rewrites portions that change some other might rewrite entire file.