M6600 Owners Thread

sound like vbios issue.

 

Hmmm I know the laptop is booting as its showing up on my routers connected devices. Unfortunately I don't think I had remote turned on so I can't get into it... will have to see if the old card works and make sure I can access the laptop remotely before attempting the new one again.

 

Should there be any specific driver or something I need to modify for this? I can remote into the machine but the bios and windows give no video. The driver when remoted in shows microsoft basic adapter.

The ONLY time I've gotten video is if I put the Quadro 3000 back in, turn optimus on, and then put the 675m in and start the computer. Windows looks SUPER low def though, like 640x460 and 10 colors, with half graphics not even working properly. This isn't the standard no driver kind of graphics, its like... really bad looking. I do see 2 video devices in this mode though, both no driver installed obviously. Nvidia won't go past the compatibility check.

 

well, if it is showing up in device manager, then it is good sign. Get a mod driver from laptopvideo2go, or tried the modded driver by mr.fox

Probably the vbios of the card require the presence of intel igpu(optimus) to work.

 

Yeah I figured it was optimus related. The problem is with the new card installed and video working, the BIOS shows no option for nvidia optimus... and once I exit the bios from there video no longer works. If I never go into the BIOS, windows will show video with both cards lacking drivers.

So the BIOS isn't recognizing anything correctly -- even if I get the right driver installed on windows, I don't think the BIOS/computer would ever see the card properly.

 

Wanted to pass along an update that I hope will help others aiming to upgrade their Precision m6600 as I did. Tried my FirePro FireGL M6100 graphic card install again, this time using a light blue 1.5mm cooling pad purchased on the most popular online auction site. You can search "blue 100x100x1.5 mm GPU CPU Heatsink Cooling Thermal Conductive Silicone Pad" & find this product. As well, used IC Diamond 7 Carat thermal paste. Found the EuroCom video on the most popular online video site titled, "How to Prepare a GPU / VGA Card for Installation and Upgrade in a Notebook" to be incredibly helpful, as it not only shows the most recommended thermal paste application style, but it goes into thermal pad placement, which was a huge issue w/ my original install. Follow the picture shown in the video for thermal pad placement for the AMD Radeon HD 6990M. On the M6100 card, you'll also need a cooling pad on the BOTTOM. So, let me be clear...you need to apply thermal PASTE to the GPU chip itself AND you need little cut out thermal/cooling pads for each VRAM & specific surfaces per the EuroCom video illustrations on the TOP of the card...AND you need a thermal/cooling pad on the BOTTOM. I'll insert a pic showing it...sorry I don't have any other illustration besides the picture of the card in the anti-static bag.



After installation, I let the notebook sit powered on to desktop & idle for an hour & a half or so...since the EuroCom video noted that maximum effectiveness occurs @ roughly 2 hours after application. I then started testing the card & noted that it did still heat up to 90 degrees, but very slowly, & only got up to about 92 degrees max playing Battlefield 3. Didn't do anything past 60 degrees playing DC Universe Online. Powered notebook off overnight, did some testing next morning & from then until now, I can't make the card heat up past about 65 degrees Celsius no matter what I throw at it. I'd say that's a pretty effective combo of thermal pads & paste!

Hope this info will be a huge blessing to somebody out there!

 

1.5mm is too thick still when I upgraded mine. Try 3dmark as light testing.

Sent from my 306SH

 

Blast it, now I have to eat my words...original Crysis run on 1920x1080, playing final & hardest level, made card max out @ 85 degrees. Crysis Warhead run on 1024/768 made it max @ 80. Anyone see any issues w/ 85 degrees max? Only worry if it consistently hits 90's? Doubt I'm going to see that, but thought I'd check.

 

Going to give up on the 675's, should be able to resell them and get my money back (hopefully). On Ebay sellers are reporting many cards are compatible (765, 770, 780 etc.) but I'm not sure after this fiasco!

 

My M6100 came pre-installed in my laptop, so was presumably professionally installed. At idle I'm seeing GPU temps at about 56 Celsius. After playing heavily modded Skyrim thru some intense magical battles (lots of special effects) for about 15 minutes temps hit 75C, so I don't think BF3 at 85C is anything to worry about too much. I'll try watching temps for my next marathon playthru of Skyrim or Dragon Age Inquisition and see if my temps are comparable.