M6800 Owners' Thread

Hello from Ukraine,

have any idea what wrong?

 

The reason why that slot that doesn't work is because it is reserved solely for a special encryption card.

 

should be written on the pcb.

 

Thank you, anybody use Secure Encryption card? price 100 usd :-( laptop work speed less ?

 

You don't need it.

 

To answer both your and my question the culprit was Cortana. more specifically searchUI.exe. I managed to catch a glimpse of it in AMD drivers under switchable Graphics monitor then I had to manually add it to the list of all the applications and Force it to use power savings graphics. Now I can finally enjoy proper battery life under Windows 10.

I hope you die in Hell Cortana.

Edit: My hapiness was too soon. W10 still chugs on battery life like crazy. At the end of the day after all the updates installed w10 in idle consumed around 25-30w, any browser or hdd usage cranks it way over 35.

Compared to win7 which sit on 15-20, and jump to 25 max when browsing w10 is just not behaving acceptable.

Those values are with same brightness, forced igpu, same backlight and turboboost disabled. I'm jet to test with under olt, as w10 starts crasing after xtu instalation and rendera notebook unusable.

Bad luck or not im back to win7.

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Was it a clean install? I also had some issues on my Sony S13 where I tried upgrading to Win10 twice (once it came out and once with a recent build) so I reverted to Windows 7.

I should try upgrading the M6700 just to enlist my Win7 key for a future upgrade. The only problem is that I'm using a dual boot Win7 setup so I'm not sure if upgrading to Win10 will mess that up.

 

If you have a spare unused drive you can remove the ones in there and clean install on that. Hard to mess anything up if you remove the drive(s) you're using for Win7.


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It was a clean install. Driver update disabled, manually installed it all.

On the second run let windows download most of it with me updating what was missing...

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Just taking a shot in the dark, have you tried playing around with the power options and choose the Balance power plan or Power saver power plan? Or even customise the power plan?