New M6500 Discussion Thread

Hello

I have low performance issues in games with my covet.

While playing SC2 with low details, the FPS is falling to 8-10 fps several times. With Extreme details, even the gpu load is not rising %60-70 percent, the fps is between 8-25fps.

I reinstalled last 4 nvidia drivers inc. the latest beta, the gpu. temp is between 50-70 "C.

any ideas?

precision m6500 i7-920xm 12gig@1333Mhz fx-3800M 2x500GB wd barracuda black 7.2k

 

Check your Bios. See if it is recognizing your power supply as 210/230 watts.

Check your power options - make sure you have it set to high performance.

 

Thanks for the reply. I'll give that a shot... though that driver's pretty crusty. "Last resort" so to speak.

Everything I've read points to this being an nvidia problem... though I'm not sure how Dell would put their name on/redistribute drivers that seemed to have issues like this (referring to the 257.xx build from their support site)....

 

Too all M6500 Owners with the FirePro M7820. Can one of you list the version of your vBIOS? I have a feeling the people with the FirePro M7820 for the HP Elitebooks might have an outdated vBIOS. If anyone of you can confirm the our suspicions that would be great.

The HP vBIOS for the HP Elitebook 8740w with the M7820 is 012.019.000.008.036573.

Thanks greatly!

PS: If it turns out the Precision did get an updated vBIOS, is it possible for extract a copy of your vBIOS and posted for us to download? Thanks again!

 

I wanted to buy a new flashdrive, USB 3.0 or eSata. Then I found A-DATA's N909 which seems to be an interesting flash drive to use on M6500 but I can't find a store selling the product.

Does anybody own this drive or a USB 3.0 drive? Is it worth the cost?

 

Bios PartNumber : 113-B78001-004
Bios Version : 012.020.000.031
Bios Date : 2010/06/01 17:10

Dunno how to extract the BIOS though.

 

GPU-Z Video card GPU Information Utility

Download it and when you fire it up it will tell you the BIOS information, then click on the icon next to the BIOS box and download it off of there! It does look newer than the ones in the 8740w's which has a BIOS Date of 2/27/2010. I would love to obtain a copy of yours.

The reason I am asking so adamantly is that I believe the cards HP uses is suffering the ASUS G73 Vertical Screen of Death (which I have seen it occur to my laptop a few times on two different M7820's supplied from HP). I want to see if the Dell's version fixes that problem (as ASUS released a modified vBIOS to rectify that issue with the G73's).



See that Chip with a Green Arrow icon next to the BIOS information box? Click on that to extract and save the vBIOS off your card! (When you download and run GPU-Z of course! )

Then you can just attach it on NBR when you make a new post and I can get it off of it here!

Also, GPU-Z doesn't install anything. It is just a executable program that you double click after downloading and it will run. You can delete it right after you extract the vBIOS by throwing into your Recycle Bin.

PS: Thanks again KiloWatt if you are able to hand over a copy of the vBIOS. Let me know if you more assistance on how to do it! (Or ANYONE with the M7820 can help out as well!) I really need this vBIOS so anyone willing to help out on this would be greatly appreciated!

 

Make sure before using ATI winflash you save your current vBIOS beforehand in something gets fubar'd.

 

Of course! I used WinFlash to help with my increase Voltage settings on the current vBIOS. However, that didn't help with eliminating VSOD's completely. Hence why I am asking for the Dell's version (if anyone could get it to me...).

 

Just in case anyone has similar U2711 blinking issues...

The M6500 came with the slimmer travel power supply. The E-port plus dock came today with its "fatty brick" power supply... the U2711 is still connected with the same DisplayPort cable, only this time from the rear of the dock instead of the M6500... and the blinking seems to have abated.

So I'm thinking it's either caused by
1) Less than 210watt power supply
2) The DP-out on the M6500

Also the replacement monitor came today... also Rev A04, Manufactured February 2011.

Guess I will try the original U2711 with the new power supply & no dock next.