M6800 Owners' Thread

Like all garbled.

 

@brianfist, Could you tell the model of your lcd panel? It seems, you might have one with eDP connector.

 

It's the 1920x1080 touchscreen. This one:
Red Covet 17.3" UltraSharp™ FHD(1920x1080) WideView AG LED-backlit Multi-Touch

I still get garbled video if I output to a different monitor also.

 

@brianfist,
Did you contacted with Dell? I think, it's the first you should do (no matter have you warranty or not).

 

Any whishes about which drivers should i try.

As far as i remember when using drivers from AMD site i was not able to boot into windows with enduro enabled. Once switchabe graphics were disabled any drivers worked.

 

Every driver works fine with Enduro, even Radeon drivers.

 

I have contacted Dell. They just said I need to use their drivers. lol Have tried a few different techs.

 

Ill give it a go once again, but drivers from amd.com did not let me boot into windows last few times on m6800 with enduro on...

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I'm actually have the opposite experience. If I enable switchable graphics the corruption goes away as the intel video is active when you boot into windows. However, if there is any application that requires more power it switches to the AMD video and corruption returns.

Edit: It appears there is some progress in the preview driver. The previous drivers including the first Omega exhibited glitches with switchable mode. This isn't the case any more. Maybe the other switchable mode bugs are fixed. I will test more. I would prefer to run in discrete mode though. Oh well, it's progress.

 

Hello.
I would like to discuss a matter for M6800 users.My Precision M6800 came with Win8 Pro.The problem is I don't like it so I would like to install Win7 Pro.Could someone tell me how to make in order not to loose the original Win8 (system image?), then format the entire HDD (as Disk Management is saying that I have 2 recovery partitions and an EFI system partition) and use it as a storage drive and install Win7 on a SSD.I must mention that during my entire period of time in interaction with computers I had never done a back up.Explain like I am a noob .
Thank You.
igor.