M6800 Owners' Thread

I have the EDP touch screen in my m6800 was hard to get. Also have the red case and stuff... Actually, compard to the non-touch its a about 50nit less bright.

 

Hello all,
I have 2 M6800's running Win 10 that I tore apart and put back together due to a cracked LCD and upgrading the video cards.
Device manager is not detecting either card now (both were working prior to the swap). Figured that out when I went to install the drivers and it errored out with "no compatible device."

"A" has a 780m, "B" has a m6100 firepro. Neither show up in device manager besides the regular Intel graphics nor in the bios.

If I try to disable switchable graphics in the bios, the computer just resets and reenables the intel HD graphics?

Its like the computer reads nothing from the slot.
I would be inclined to think I damaged the slot except that it is both computers which were working just fine before.
No change when swapping the cards back.

Any ideas

 

try pull coin battery and see?
When u swap the card, the GPU heatsink is swapped as well?

 

Try reseating the GPUs. I had this problem with my m6100 after a disassembly and that fixed it. Make sure the slots are free of dust too.

 

Okay I will try to get to that this weekend and let you all know.

 

Anyone knows if is possible to use Coollaboratory Metal Pad with M6800 CPU and GPU?
I'm asking thinking this material needs two metallic surfaces in contact and if the CPU has no IHS. I didn't open mine yet, so I don't know if the CPU chip is exposed or covered with IHS. So, if you guys can help me figure out this, it would be much appreciated.

I wonder if Coollaboratory Metal Pad would do the job, or melt and spread around and f8ck everything... Has anyone tried it? Can you share your experience, eventually photos of the process?

Coollaboratory Metal Pad link: http://www.coollaboratory.com/product/coollaboratory-liquid-metalpad/

Alternatively, if this is not recommended, I could just go with Kryonaut Thermal Grizzly...

 

I have not taken off the CPU heatsink on my m6800 but I've never seen a mobile CPU with a metal heatspreader before.

 

Thank you for this insight @epsilon72 ...I will assume the spreader is not present.
Still, if anyone used Coollaboratory Metal Pat as thermal solution on such a CPU, please share your insight.

 

Hi there.
Quick question. Are the Ripjaws Ddr3L-1600-cl9-9-9-28 1.35v compatible with our M6800's?
If so,are they a substancial improvement over the standard factory ram installed by DELL on the M6800 ?.If I replace the original ram does it void the warranty?
Thanks.

 

I can only answer the last questions, but the RAM is considered user-serviceable, and won't affect the warranty (as long as you don't damage anything else while working on it).