M6600 Owners Thread

No worries, if I write too much or too little it will get confusing

If you let windows take charge (not using diskpart) then it should, as Aaron said when using a UEFI installer media - should get you setup properly. If you do it manually you'll need to follow all the steps in the guide otherwise parts will be missing.

You can also choose for the secondary HDD's or SSD's, either format, GPT or MBR. If they are never removed and you don't need flexibility then use GPT. I don't know about Mac OS requirements.

The one thing that I wanted to stress was that it is not necessary if you manually use diskpart to create partitions for GPT - don't add the MSR partition to the HDD's or SSD's (for secondary drives and on). The step in the guide needs to be removed. If you install Windows via UEFI to GPT disk and then Clean and Convert another internal drive to GPT it should automatically receive an MSR partition.

Previously I had put the MSR partition line in for all internal drives and received redundant MSR partitions in return. It is only necessary for the initial OS drive.

Though, as always, it is best to just check your work because I've not tried all situations. As before, use the DISKPART command after converting to GPT: SELECT DISK #, then: LIST PARTITION. It will display all the partitions for the Disk. If you see the MSR partition after converting to GPT then you're good to go; if not add it there before continuing.

All these details make for a learning curve but it's not too bad after a once through.

 

Hello
Do you know if the M6700 motherboard (equiped with 3720QM) can be installed in a precision M6600?
I want to repair a M6600 and have part from M6700!
Thanks in advance

 

No, there are enough small differences in the chassis that the motherboard won't line up.

 

Hi,

I am not sure what seems to be the issue with my m6600 and i was hoping to get some advice from here.

This might sound too general but i'm in the midst of trying to troubleshoot and find out what might be wrong.

The issue i am facing seems to be pertaining to graphics performance.

My current set up is using a AMD (ATI) firepro m8900 (firegl) mobility pro graphics.

In the recent month or so, i have noticed poorer graphics performance in various application which i can't quite put my finger on.

I shall list these applications,
Video streaming on various portals using google chrome. Memory usage goes up to 200mb, and response on the controls of the player are choppy and sluggish even though physical available memory is 20gb
Computer games. Stable fps for 5-10 mins or so and then sudden drop in fps from 60fps to like 15fps for 5-10 mins then back to normal. This cycle is repeating at certain times. It does not seem to be network related since i am able to monitor chokes and loss of packets.
Desktop usage is slow and sluggish at times when switching between applications


Some Steps I have taken,
Defragmented SSD hard drive and windows 7 x64.
Made sure there is enough space on SSD for applications to process. 10gb
Checked there is enough RAM and no hardware failures from available physical RAM
Upgraded Graphics driver from build 8.911.3.3 to recent build 13.152.4
These have not be successful to solve my issues with this spiking of responsiveness.


Other observations i have noticed are,
Recent updates of the .NET framework
Since the catalyst control center is built upon the .NET framework, i am wondering if recent updates have cause the card to have performance spikes repeatedly.
I am wondering if i am the only one experiencing this.

Also ran 3dmark test and can only seem to run entry level and not at 720p or full hd without it interrupting and exiting.

Any help or advice is very much appreciated.

 

I'm wondering if it is just graphics performance that you're having trouble with, or if you're being hit by more system-wide throttling?

A few months ago another user here noticed that he was being slammed by CPU throttling (which can make streaming video and video games very choppy). Turns out the system was acting like a low-power or bad power supply was connected, and throttling everything down to the minimum level. While this might not make a big difference with basic office apps or web browsing, trying to do anything even moderately intensive, you start to notice things are amiss.

I think that replacing the power supply didn't fix the problem, so something had gone wrong further up (motherboard?).

Anyway, there's an easy check to see if this is happening to you too. Disconnect the power supply and run the system on battery power, and then see if your online video streaming in Chrome starts to behave normally.

 

Thanks...i'll give that a go and see if that's the issue...Cheers

 

Ok, thanks a lot for this information!

 

Well after testing this for a couple of hours... it does not seem to be a power throttling issue.. i tried forcing power management to performance instead of power saving as well...

Anyone might have some ideas to this?

 

Have you monitored temps, just to make sure it's not heat-related?

 

Well i attached a snapshot of the temperatures... Seems pretty avg to me..for a m6600?

Is it not?

This was taken just after gaming and idle for a couple of minutes..