M6800 Owners' Thread

Great, I changed the sata operation to ATA, now it has corrupted something and my win8 wont boot, and the repair tool doesnt work... Lucky i have an image, but now i need to reinstall a heap of autodesk and ansys software....

 

The Fans chirp a bit on the m6700 as well, kind of reminds me of the sound of old hard drives. But they are definitely quieter than the m6500. And also activate much less. I would imagine similar sound profile for the M6800.


If you change the SATA mode back over, it should go back to working, but why are you switching to ATA?

 

You can't change the disk controller mode after the OS is installed without taking special preparations ahead of time.

 

I have changed it back, but i think it corrupted some of the disk. Ill run chkdsk first see if that fixes it.

 

Leave it changed back and boot from the Win CD and repair - it may work.

 

I would never have imagined the M6800 platform inside is so different from that of the previous two models. Thanks for the pictures.

 

hello guys!
do you know if the M6800 supports 32gb of ram to 2133MHz.
In particular this type of modules Corsair Vengeance SoDimm DDR3 PC3-17066 CL11.

this is the link
Vengeance®

Thanks to anyone who wants to give me a help

 

I don't know about those Corsairs but officially at least the maximum supported memory speed is 1866MHz and even that is above what Intel officially supports with mobile Haswells.

For the M6800 official max speed 1866MHz the only available options as far as I know are Corsairs and Crucial and my advice is to stay away from the Crucials. Far, far away.

I ordered 4x8GB Crucial Ballistix 1866MHz SO-DIMMs after Crucial told me in writing that those modules with the exact product code I ordered are guaranteed compatible with M6800. None of the modules work, neither individually or in pairs. My M6800 doesn't even start but gives error leds indicating a memory problem. I bought them from an online retailer in Germany called ComputerUniverse.net, which everyone should also avoid, as ever since I bought them I have been trying to either get a refund for the modules and postage back or an exchange to another batch with some sort of guarantee that they would work any better, but ComputerUniverse and Crucial just both tell me to contact the other party and none of them wants to take any responsibility of a product that does not work as claimed. The retailer is also very slow to respond to anything and they seem to believe the modules are not broken (hence has to be incompatible) and don't promise me to get a refund, so I can't send these back without knowing if I get anything in return.

Basically there are two alternatives: Either Crucial's claims about compatibility are untrue or I got 4 faulty modules, in which case they have serious quality issues (there's no visible damage and there wasn't any indication something would have happened during transport). Crucial support has told me that they haven't actually tested these modules with M6800 themselves but haven't received feedback they won't work either... So for them guaranteed compatible seems to mean that they let their customers to make the testing if they actually happen to be compatible. They are willing to exchange the modules to another set of the same but expect me to pay the international postages to them and don't give me any additional guarantees that the next set would work any better. So basically they expect their customers to perform the compatibility testing with the customer's expense (they should rather pay me to do that especially if they don't have one of these systems to test it by themselves). And if it turns out the modules are not compatible, I would have just spent some tens of euros more for getting back to the original problem of having 4 incompatible modules nobody wants. They also told me that getting 4 faulty modules is rare but it happens, which isn't a good indication either.

So if anyone has tried Crucial modules with their M6800 (or M6700) I would really like to know the results. And I strongly advice everybody to not try their luck with these and try Corsairs or something else instead.

 

No it didnt work, it says automatic repair could not fix your PC. I tried with CMD and did chkdsk, which found a few errors (no bad sectors), and tried bootrec /fixMBR, bootrec /Fixboot, bootrec /rebuildBCD but didnt work.

Put a new image on and it's fine now. When I changed it to ATA, it obviously has an error starting, crashed, then got stuck in this loop and changing back to Raid didnt fix it (although raid is not configured, just one disk in use for OS).

THe reason was, because it is in RAID on the sata operation of the bios, booting takes a bit longer because there is an extra screen that looks for a raid configuration, realises there isnt one, then boots notmally. So I was trying to avoid that delay.

Good news is using ghost, and ssd to ssd, I can re-image my laptop in about 4 mins

I have a backup OS Win7 on the mSATA drive

 

How are people finding using the two finger touch gestures to scroll on the touchpad? I am using the dell driver but it's not the smoothest thing to use...