New M6500 Discussion Thread

Okay.. couple things. need to vent.

Does anybody have the Gobi2 5620 mobile broadband card?

Why does the install guide say not to install the Dell Control Point Connection Manager for Gen 2 laptops (which includes the M6500)? That's the only way you can get the driver. They have the 5600 driver for direct download, but no 5620 driver only download.

I don't know why they specify not to use the Control Point connection manger for the M6500. I did load the connection manager for my 1st M6500 and it seemed to work fine.

That one went toast though. died mid presentation. Now just got my replacement a month later and they still don't have a standalone driver for the 5620 and still say not to load the connection manager. don't understand.

My replacement was also shipped w/ a standard dvd drive and not the Blue Ray that I paid for in my original. I had a working Blue Ray RW and now they gave me a standard dvd.

Should I be able to replace the drive from my old M6500? I still have the dead one.

This is a great machine when I have it in hand and running. Just seem to have some support issues w/ drivers and certain configs. Support said the blue ray was incompatible. But it's there in all the online configs.

 

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Honestly if there is a performance issue its so minor you would never be able to tell. The benchmarks are pretty much at the threshold of the interface at 260-280MBs so I don't see a problem.

But you know benchmark geeks look at numbers like they are the tech bible.

 

Yes, you can replace the Standard DVD drive with Blue Ray R/W. If you remove the battery, you can see on screw on the right side which hold the DVD drive. I have remove it before.

 

It seems that you have bad USB3.0 module on the left hand side of the system. Bokeh posted the picture of the card before. I think you need to call Dell to service you system. Based on your input, it seems they only need to replace the Left side USB3.0 module.

 

Hello!
I’ve read most of this threat about this machine, and I’ve bought mine following all good advices and help. And I'm very happy about this machine, fast, stable …
But I still have some troubles that I cannot solve:
- The screen, I have a Colormunki photo, and I have tried most of advices and tips from this forum to calibrate it, but it still not good, everything is still a bit yellowish, red and green are over saturated. I’ve tried most options given by colormunki soft, ( 2.2/1.8gama, whitepoint, different luminosity… etc) and there is no improvement. I If there is anyone using colormunki, and who know how to calibrate that screen?

- About the color shift when sun goes on the left side of the screen, any solution for that, except keeping the screen in shadow?

- I bought a 320g WD black scorpio, and it just does not work in this machine. When pluged through USB there is no problem, but when installed in bay 2 nothing works, and the machine keeps crashing, with an error during boot. I have bios A03, AHCI enabled, can it be related? Should I go back to A02? Or is there something else I should consider?

- When watching any streaming video in full screen, I have screen freeze (+/- every minute). If I keep it small there is no problem. I have also some troubles with Solidworks, sometime the screen does not follow, and I have to wait for refresh. Can it be hardware problem? or a setting? (I’ve tried all nvidia drivers. So far the last one from nvidia is the most stable one.)

I was thinking for a new fresh install. But I don’t know if it could solve any of these issues. And I would prefer avoiding it, this is the only computer I have currently, and I am working everyday on it.

Thanks a lot if anyone can help me!

M6500 covet, OCZ 64GB vertex, 320GB WD scorpioblack, nvidia3800m, RGBled(samsung), 4GB ram 1333,

 

I don't use Colormunkie but use GM/Xrite iOne Display 2 with good results. recent calibration refresh at 2.2, 6500k and 100 target, actual 2.2, 6500, 103. I tried native white point but went back to using 6500k. For regular viewing/proofing of generic non color managed stuff online or non color managed images in IE, you can change the screen vibrance in the Nvidia Control Panel to 40%. If you can't update the Nvidia Driver from the Nvidia site as it's been updated recently. Changing the vibrance is the best way to view the above.

I conciously change that vibrancy when I do web design or proofing for the web to 40%. I also keep in mind Netscape now as well as others will color manage so things can appear strange on this screen unless you intend for others who are color managed to see things a certain way. Mostly I'll output for the web but uncheck embed color profile so all browsers display things consistently, such as interface and background elements. Main photographs I at times embed the profile or Lightroom does it anyway so something to keep in mind if at some point you see this occuring.

In Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc... I keep vibrancy at normal 50% and I make sure when I am calibrating that I have vibrancy as normal 50%. Basically all color managed apps can utilize the extra gamut but those that don't you need to reduce that vibrancy setting as needed. It's 2 clicks and I leave the panel open and unsaved till I'm done and then simply close the panel without changing it.

I have yet to go back to my workstation. 4 full page ads produced on this machine and seen printed, as well as a few websites using the above settings/technique. A little bit extra thought in your workflow but I find it works nicely. Until I got things sorted when this was new, it was strange. One nice thing in Pshop CS5 is it's Proof setting has a Internet standard setting that seems to show a good proof when in wide gamut mode while in CS3 I had to use 'monitor" which gave me the extreme sunburned appearance. So CS5 is a worthy counterpart to the M6500 RGBLED screen. BTW I also have the Samsung.

I've attached a recent icc file for the samsung you can try. Just change the .txt to .icc. Initially it may appear cold but I find I get a very neutral white when my eyes adjust and my screen and output in print match. My screen brightness for this calibration is 66% in Dell advanced power settings and/or upper 8 value using the keyboard.

Hope this helps.


John

 

Welcome to the Money Pit.... Try out a color profile...there are several posted around here depending on if you have Sammie or LG screen.

 

Yippee!


I just recieved my M6500 Covet yesterday, which is the replacement/upgrade from my three month old M6500 (silver base). Dell had given me a system with periodic faults, and after three months of not being able to fix it despite having the highest support and warranty package available, I must have got in contact with the right person at Dell, for they thought this was "a disgrace" that it should take this long, and gave me a *free* upgrade that changed from:

Silver Base (USB2, with white LED screen) to Orange Base (USB3, with RBG Edge-to Edge screen)
i5-520QM processor -> i7-820QM
ATI FirePro 7740 -> nVidia Quadro FX 3800M
4GB 1033mhz -> 4GB 1366mhz RAM

Am I the only one that thinks I must've struck some sort of crazy luck here? This system looks gorgeous compared to the silver base, and although I have not compared the default settings of screens side by side yet, I feel that the new RGB LED panel really stands out. I also had the annoying feeling that even on the standard install and wallpaper I could *see* some pretty rough colour changes in gradients, where a short while would go seamlessly, and then it would change fairly radically and noticeably, and then soft again. Annoyed the hell out of me. All gone now



Anyway, I think it is about time I start searching about to figure out this screen calibration thing -- might as well. Looks like I have a bit to go on at this very page of this thread, though


*runs away laughing at the fact that he no longer has ATI, but rather nVidia* (I run Linux, too, and ATI can be a real pain >_>)

 

Thanks Niblick.

That was actually very easy to swap the DVD drive for the Blue Ray in my original M6500.

Looks like the incompatibility is between the IDT audio driver and the Blue Ray Drive. The IDT driver (when installed) keeps popping up a window about the Blue Ray audio input. Won't go away. BUT, if I uninstall the audio driver, looks like everything works okay. (except for using the windows 7 default audio driver). I imagine there could be some issues with this.. or just crappy audio.

Behooves me why Dell can't provide a compatible Blue Ray drive / Audio Driver w/ the M6500.

As for the Gobi 2000 (5620) mobile broadband and no driver for that on the Website. I did install the driver and application that was on the Dell 4500 driver website. This seems to be working well so far. Again.. not sure what's up w/ the Dell M6500 team that they don't have all the correct drivers on the M6500 download page.