M6600 Owners Thread

What's the best way to clean the M6600 keyboard? My 'G' key is getting stuck a lot lately and I'm wondering if it's okay to just pluck the keys out directly or if I have to remove the faceplate, then remove the keyboard and clean it that way?

 

Every couple weeks I remove the back cover, open the lid and stand the computer on its side and blow air down the keys. Amazing how much lint, (crumbs too) get lodged in there. On the other computer I found her tip of fingernail floating around. That one was particularly aggravating to get out; ended up using a needle to stab it and wedge it out.

Tijo has some good knowledge and tips about this if he chimes in. I do know he will say be very careful because of the way they are linked into the whatever it is.

So at any rate - be careful.

 

Technically, you can pluck the key, but the scissors mechanism on laptop keys is rather delicate, so there's always a risk of breaking something. I would start with what rcb suggested. Use cans of compressed gas, an air compressor or something like a datavac ED500 and it will take care of most of the dirt stuck behind the keys. You might have to eventually remove the key though.

I prefer cleaning my desktop keyboards for that reason. I just remove the entire set of keys, clean the hell out of it and then put everything back in place.

As to how to remove the key, it depends on the mechanism type, if someone knows, they'd have to chime in.

 

Just in case anybody wanted to know, make sure you do the recommended firmware update for Crucial's mSATA drive if you've got one installed (I use the 240GB one as the OS drive 240GB, mSATA Solid State Drive, upgrades for Dell Precision M6600 (4 SODIMMs) Laptop/Notebook, CT4105359 from Crucial.com). All (and I mean ALL) my laptop's odd freezes and weird behaviour ceased (on awakening from sleep) after the update. Crucial says these errors only occurred during testing at the factory. Um, nope.

 

Thanks rcb.to.ca and Tijo for the tips. I found that the best way to clean the keyboard is to remove the keyboard and use compressed air to blow air through the sides of it, and also to bring it to a sink and wiggle it around upside down to see all the dust and lint falling. Even though I always keep my computer clean, I was surprised at how much buildup of gunk there was underneath it all.

@Morgh

I think the 10-bit pixel support will drain the batteries faster and that it's a higher load on the CPU, it was a few months ago since I last had it enabled so I don't remember if it made any noticeable difference or not to what I actually saw on the screen. Also if you want to see a big change in color, go to display color and enable Extended Display Identification Data (EDID), it makes the colors more vivid.

It's not abnormal that there aren't any new updates as this machine has been out for 2+ years, most bugs and issues have been kicked out. I know that sometimes it feels good to have the latest of everything, but apart from the initial driver installation, drivers updates usually aren't for improving performance, most of the time they are to fix reported bugs and issues.

 

Hi all,
My m6600 has problem with firepro m8900. I replaced it with quadro 4000m. Now the problem is the temperature of gpu vrm is too high. The temperature of gpu is around 40 to 45 at idle. But the temperature of gpu vrm is around 110 degree celcius. I tried to use some thermal pads but it did not lower. Can you tell me where to paste the thermal pad and the thickness of thermal pad as well. Really need your help. I don't want my gpu die again. It takes a very long time to order a new gpu, and very expensive as well. Please....
Thanks in advance.

 

Look for one of my posts few pages back. Had the same issue. It might clarify the issue.

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http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=9411002 double post since i am on my mobile and it wont let me edit.

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When I went from the M8900 to the 4000M, I made sure to save and use the existing thermal pads in addition to adding a few. Likewise, some good thermal paste for the GPU core itself is very critical. The picture below shows the areas where I applied the thermal pads (the memory modules and solid state capacitors) and the thermal paste (the GPU). Also shown below is how hot my 4000M gets when messing around in CS6 and other business work loads. It is rare I go above 60C and I would get very worried if it ever went above 80C.

It reads like you just need to make sure you heatsink is clean (with not too much thermal paste applied) and it is making level/even pressure/contact across the entire surface of the GPU module. The existing GPU heatsink will work with either the AMD or NVidia modules.

Scott-

 

So is there anyone had same problem with you? Does quadro 3000m have the same issue or only quadro 4000m?