New M6500 Discussion Thread

I have the latest BIOS a04 installed.
Besides ati I have drivers from broadcom, dell, vmware player, synaptics, vodafone and what not installed.
So it is hard to tell which one it is and I do not have enough time to play with that, sorry.

Hopefully someone with the same low DPC wishes jumps in to tell if it works for him and which drivers may interfere...

 

I just got the M6500 (second replacement) Problem the USB 3.0 doesn't see MY Book 3.0. Dell had me load the NEC USB 3.0 driver but still not recognizing. They replaced the port board. Tomorrow the system board. Any help?

 

Don't take this the wrong way but wanted to start from the beginning. Do you have USB 3.0 enabled in the BIOS?

 

Thks Svenc and all ....

 

Most of the time I have about 1ms with frequent peaks of up to 1.6ms and very rare peaks above 4ms without optimizing anything in relation with latency. Most of that latency is caused by disk I/O (I have Ktorrent running) but I've never seen the X-Server to cause it although I run the proprietary NVIDIA driver 195.36.24.

 

How is the fan noise on the M6500 compared to the M6400 for the same workload?

 

Check the 4500 m thread lounge ...i posted some dpc results , a good laptop is about constant 150us under win seven ....my actual is 35us in xp ....so your results are scrary !!

 

Please tell me, how'd I control the backlight for the touchpad? It just seems to come on and off arbotrarily at the moment...

 

I think you mean the jog shuttle settings because the touchpad doesn't really have a backlight except to show you the weird jog shuttle which confuses me. Right click on the Dell Touchpad icon in your desktop tray and select "Touchpad properties". Then select Jog Shuttle Settings->Jog Shuttle. You can then disable the jog shuttle by unchecking the check box there. Hope this helps. ^^

 

i want to sell my precision m6400 and get the 6500.