M6600 Owners Thread

Did anybody try to install a 680m in the m6600?

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...5461-dell-m6600-4000m-gtx-680m-upgrade-5.html

dell M6600

clevo card report to work, dell card should work.

 

There are lots of random password generators out there but I found this to be simple and useful: https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm
It's from the same site that I linked about a couple weeks ago: https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm

Lots of good stuff in the services menu.


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EDIT:

FYI, DEAD, Pulled at Dell for whatever reason:
Intel LAN Diagnostics {A09} (YMH42), DIAG_Network_Intel_A09_x64-YMH42_setup_ZPE.exe

 

Having issues with my M6600 recently and wanted to sanity check some HWinfo64 sensor readings (attached). Note the 100% GPU Fan at all times (could be a sensor issue) and the off the charts 117-118c GPU VRM temps. Laptop is hot to the touch, especially the underside near the back.



I have a Quadro 3000M (Rev A1) and a non-IPS screen. Could someone with a similar config post their GPU VRM temp readings?

My computer recently started experiencing periods of 100% CPU usage (as reported by windows task manager) where everything slows to a crawl for a minute or so, and then it snaps out of it and CPU usage goes back to ~15%. Here's what my task manager looks like when this happens:



During this time the mouse is jerky and unresponsive, and keyboard commands get stuck in a queue. This happens any time I'm doing heavy multitasking, such as running 4-5 virtualboxes, streaming flash video in the browser, and running batch excel calcs (each task will jump to 12-14 CPU as read by task manager). This problem happens using any single one of the aforementioned programs (although it happens quicker when I'm doing this "perfect storm" of tasks), so I've ruled out any particular program being the culprit alone and I'm leaning towards a hardware issue. I've used this laptop since Jan 2012, and it has handled the aforementioned work load with no issues until recently.

I ran the pre-boot F12 ePSA diagnostics, and got a hit.
Error Code: 2000-0123 Validation 52469 Msg: Memory - Integrity test discrepancy

I have 32gb memory installed (four sticks of Corsair CMS08GX3M1A1333C9). I removed the two sticks from under the keyboard (memory slots C/D) and ePSA passed. Keeping the memory in slots A and B under the laptop constant, I then tested memory sticks C and D alone in both slots C and D. All four tests passed. I then simply swapped their slots and that test passed as well. However putting the sticks in their original C/D slot order produces a failure every time. This testing leaves me scratching my head and I have no idea if I have bad RAM, bad RAM slots, or an overheating GPU (or all of the above!).

System notes:
I've got a Dell 30" U3011 (2560x1600) and a Dell 23" SP2309W (2048x1152) being driven at all times via Displayport/HDMI respectively, and my OS is Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate.

 

Sounds like it could be one of the RAM sticks. You could try running Windows memory test and see if it reports the same - to get confirmation before concluding/speculating that it might be something worse.

Control Panel /Administrative Tools

 

I agree that one of my RAM sticks could be bad. I ran memtest86 and got an error on test 7 (attached).



However, at this point I'm concerned that RAM isn't my only problem.
I should have noted that the system slowdown / CPU 100% happens even after I've removed both sticks from slots C/D (therefore running with only 16gb), so even if one of those slots or sticks is bad, I've got another problem as well.

 

I wouldn't know how to diagnose past this point until the first problem is resolved.
Possibly heat-sink's re-paste is needed?
Hopefully someone else with more experience can give some insight.

 

First question, is it still under warranty?

 

I've got next business day support through 7/1/2015.

That said, I'd like to get a decent grasp on each potential issue my laptop is facing to avoid a long, drawn out period of time parrying with Dell's techs.

Can anyone with a Quadro card look up their GPU VRM temp in HWInfo64 and report back?

 

If I were you I'd call Dell and tell them to exchange each part at a time , to find where the culprit it. You can also request not to send a tech over if you feel confident you can do the repairs yourself.