M6600 Owners Thread

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1. Connect Power Supply
2. Set Balanced power profile
3. Start Hwinfo sensors monitoring
4. Start gaming, approx 10 min (or loop of 3D mark)
5. Show screenshot, the most important infos are:
- CPU cores: clocks (Mhz) and temps
- GPU core and memory: clocks (Mhz) and temps

Your system can be throttled because of overheating. How old is it? Have you ever changed thermal compound for CPU/GPU? thermalpads for GPU vRam?

 

GPU temps are high considering the fact the M8900 never exceeded 250MHz core. Those should be Furmark temps running at full speed.

CPU temps are irrelevant if we do not also know whether it's been running full speed or throttled down.

Do what katmai said, and then also run the same on a full battery with no power brick attached, as suggested above. If problems persist in both scenarios, you should repaste the GPU, then try again. If the problem is limited to the first scenario, then the mobo might detect a defective brick and throttle down as it does with any adapter below 210W.

 

Great news, I got my laptop running on UEFI, and can I say its amazing!! my bootup time used to be over a min. now I got it down to around 23 seconds, give or take. I installed all the programs to the SSD, but the data files and temp files go to a separate drive to limit the writes to the SSD.

Also, recently I installed the fingerprint reader, which is a great and all, but the only functionality is logging in to Windows and that's mainly it. Do you guys know of any software that can act as a password manager or something of the such for when I am on the internet and want to log in? For example, I set the passwords for the sites as I visit them, and then when I go to them again I can swipe my finger and the info Autofills in to the user name and passwords, that will actually work with our readers?

I want to thank those that have helped me, I still have a couple more things I'd like to do, such as dualboot Win 7 and Mac OS X, and also upgrade the processor when I snag one.

 

Thanks Katmai7 and Landsome for the advice... i shall the tests again and post the results.

Cheers.

 

A good, free, password program is KeePass Password Safe, use version 2.xx, not 1.xx. It is well renowned software.

There are programs for the FPR but I haven't found any of them that work very good. DDP/A has a PIM application installed but the last time I tried it - didn't work very good either.

 

How did you get that program for ddpa. I can't seem to find it for any password managers other than logging in to.windows

Sent from my SPH-L710

 

FYI: I don't know if it was really intended to be a password or credit card manager accessible by fingerprint, and sorry, it's called private information manager - been awhile and I only put a few minutes into trying it.

Path: C:\Program Files\Dell\Dell Data Protection\Access\Advanced\Wave\Private Information Manager

Dell Data Protection|Access (DDP|A) Support Articles | Wave Systems Corp.

Private Information Manager (PIM) not available | Wave Systems Corp.

In the reimage guide under the heading: Finalization, you can set it up so that you can get permission to access a administrator acct permissions when running in a standard acct via fingerprint reader instead of typing a complex password into the secure desktop prompt.

 

Rcb. Can you tell me your boot up times? I had it down to a solid 22 seconds and the stupid Microsoft office update got me back up to 30. And can you give any tips on bringing it down?

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I'm in at 15 seconds but I use DDPA fingerprint Pre-Login. Also, I have two Samsung 840 SSD's.

I'm guessing you're not loading anything at boot time - it is really hard to know what you have going there. MS Office does slow it a little, especially on a HDD - isn't that what you have?

 

I got a msata mini ssd. That's 240gb. I have the start up programs to the bare minimum. I'm not sure what services I can delay.

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