M6600 Owners Thread

Hi Tijo...

I am going to reimage the hard drive in my m6600 using RCB's latest guide that he just finished.

I reread your post here about doing a manual install of the updates.

Would you elaborate on how you do that?

Thank you!

Kallias

 

I need to upgrade the Samsung mSATA minicard SSD 128GB to some 256GB one. Can someone tell me whether today's 6GB/sec minicards will fit and work without probs? I hope they are backwards-compatible with 3GB/s mSATA...

I have a good price on ADATA mSATA SSD SX300 256GB;


size is 4x30x51 mm. Will it fit?

Oh, and one more question - due to lack of time I'd like to swap the cards and copy the Acronis True Image Home dysk C: image I have; how do I do it? I can connect the external USB drive containing the image and boot to BIOS - but then what? Or, should I boot to Acronis itself, and restore the image from there?

 

Should work, yes. The M6700 mSATA port is also 3GB/s, and I've had the Crucial M4 256GB mSATA and currently the Samsung 840 EVO 1TB mSATA as my main drive. (obviously limited by the 3GB/s port limits on the system)

 

I have noticed that on my M6600's screen there is a line of dead (or is it hot) pixels. Basically a line of white which runs from the right to almost half way across the screen. It shows up on some backgrounds (colours apart from black for some reason). Is this a sign the screen is dying and if so how long does it normally take?

It is not an issue for me and it does not seem to affect performance but I thought I would ask anyway.

I know people here have replaced screens before, how much does it cost from Dell and if I did change the screen is this a good time to upgrade to something better?

Thanks in advance.

 

Hy! Have you found any solution to this problem yet??? I have the same Issue on my M6600....
Thank you!

 

Hy! Have you found any solution to this problem yet??? I have the same Issue on my M6600....
Thank you!

 

Hey I recently played around with eGPU on some of the notebooks I have at home and eGPU works on M6600.

So if anyone wants to upgrade to external GPU for that extra umph - now you know you can.

I currently only have Radeon 6570 for testing so altho cards is 3-4x slower than my M6100 I just wanted to see if it works and it does




Few more photos are here.

 

I just bought one of these with 6 months still left on the warranty. When it came it read as firepro m6100 in the GPU department all was good and well, but then I tried upgrading the driver with catalyst now it reads as radeon 8950 hd... did i get screwed here or did I mess up the driver update? I just want to know if i got screwed I can still send this thing back.

 

I have a m6600 with a dead amd card...

Will a Nvidia card work with the AMD heatsink?

I was looking at this one, or something similar...
IBM Lenovo NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M N10E GLM B2 DDR3 1GB MXM B 3 0 VGA Video Card | eBay

 

It's the same card, same bios. The 8950 is the "gaming" version and the m6100 is the professional. They will be better at different things, so if you want to go back to the m6100 you'll need to install the Firepro drivers.

It will yes. I'm using an Nvidia 680m with my AMD heatsink atm. You will need a Nvidia X bracket for it though, so if your new card doesn't come with one you'll have to pick one up off ebay.