M6600 Owners Thread

The furmark artifact is cause by OpenGL bug in the driver iirc, nothing to worry about, the "artifact" is horizontal lines? If I am not mistaken.
Those temps look fine.

 

Sometimes its a vertical line dividing the screen into two other times its an artefact like a graphic corruption. I checked it twice only. Why is the Shader's temp slightly higher than the other cores?

 

I just got myself a M6600 on ebay knowing it would be exactly what I would have got a little while back and much to my happiness its a great machine still today.

I was thinking to RAID-1 type the main OS drive using the MSATA as the mirrored drive but have so far had a lot of trouble trying to make this happen.

If I set this up as a raw drive and start mirroring win-7 reports that it can't do it "You cannot mirror the current boot volume on another disk with a different partition style"

So I thought that I might use the BIOS hardware raid to make it happen and so far haven't found any instructions to do this either.

Does anyone have any experience with the M6600 bios hardware raid setup ? I want to RAID-1 mirror my main OS drive to the MSATA and both are SSD's

The purpose being a failsafe in case my main drive decides it's had it's day suddenly at least I have another mirror to get running on instantly and can't lose on downtime.

Thanks
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In bios, set sata operation to RAID. ctrl I (or just I? forgot) at boot up to create raid. You will need to re install windows. So backup first.

 

I bought my laptop from a dealer who gets refurbished units from the US (I was low on cash). Recently I opened my laptop for inspection and repaste job, I noticed my GPU had a black PCB, Hynix memory chips. I read somewhere these are ES models and can be flashed to unlock the extra shaders? I did not take any Die shots to notice 'ENG'. How can I identify my laptop has a ES without opening? How do I flash and with what bios to unlock the extra shaders if it is?

My card : http://i.imgur.com/8v1rt8y.jpg

 

Nope, black PCB have nothing to do with ES. The m8900 are all black PCB as far as I seen, where the real 6970m is green or blue.

 

Then how could I identify if its an ES?

 

Either reading the die or GPU-z.

GPU-z read ES as ES even if it is flashed with oem vbios irrc, not 100% sure though.

 

Hi All,

Just received this email from Dell:

Dear Valued Dell Customer:

This E-mail is part of our commitment to proactively notify customers of important product quality information. Dell has recently noticed that some of our Precision M6600 systems are experiencing higher than anticipated dispatch rates on those containing Graphics Card part number 6W46K.

Failure analysis and symptom

Dell’s quality analysis revealed an issue that, under specific conditions, may result in corrupted video or no video.

It gave a url for the BIOS update on the Dell website. When I checked on it, I noticed that it is version A15 with a release date of 10/15/2013. Upon checking my system I noticed that I installed BIOS update A15 released on 9/27/2013.

Two different release dates for the same BIOS update version leaves me puzzled.

Anyone have more information about this?

TIA

 

Thaks for that baii

I thought I might be able to get away with doing it without having to re-install windwos as that will be a mighty hassle.

I am going to opt for backups instead to this extra drive instead.

Cheers