News on Haswell based mobile Precision M6800 ?

Noise is fine, it's not taking off. Just not used to working so near my machine, as my regular workstation is on the floor next to my desk.
Seemed louder when I just started installing software yesterday, and as mentioned it was loudest when I was not even working on it.
After all installs, windows updates and taking out the optical drive it now seems more then ok sound wise.

If it is the same sound as with my DVD drive in my m6800 than it sounds like the DVD drive tries to search for a DVD even though nothing is in the slot and nothing was put in.

It was exactly that, like every minute.

 

As for fans "noise" on my previous M4600 as well as on new M6700, fans are going to 2600-2800k RPM with no particular reason = no CPU loads, no GPU loads, no real usage.
Sometimes fans are going on for 2-5 seconds are that's it, other time it's like 20minutes non-stop on 2600-2800k RPM, then it stops.
I have no idea what is causing that and reading thru M6700 thread nobody found a fix for that.

I'm surprised "rssrss" said something similar/same happened on his M6800 when there was no load.

 

Just installed Bios A03 and the DVD slot searching noise does not seem to happen anymore.
Not sure if it happened before on battery. Will check tomorrow when it is plugged again.

 

Can anyone share any insight as to why I am still waiting on my M4800?
I ordered this on the 13th of Sept. and am still waiting. For those of you thinking about getting one of these systems all I can offer is to be ready to wait...and wait....and wait. They have changed my delivery date 3 times now.

For those of you interested I am planning on posting pics when I finally do receive it.

Here is the specification list:

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210-AAYJ
Dell Precision M4800 BTX Base1
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370-AAUS
8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3L
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580-AAAS
Internal English Dual Pointing Keyboard
1
490-BBLD
NVIDIA Quadro K2100M w/2GB GDDR5
1
400-AAYI
750GB 2.5inch SATA (7,200 Rpm) Hard Drive
1
619-ADLN
Windows 7 Professional English 64bit (Includes Windows 8 Pro license and media)
1
429-AAHU
8X DVD+/-RW Drive Slot Load
1
555-BBJV
Dell Wireless 1601 2x2 802.11n+BT+60GHz (WiGig)
1
338-BCPQ
Intel Core i7-4800MQ Processor (Quad Core, 6M Cache, 2.7 GHz, w/HD Graphics 4600)
1
391-BBGP
39.6cm (15.6") UltraSharp QHD+ (3200x1800) Wide View Anti-Glare LED-backlit Premium Panel Guarantee
1
329-BBVN
Smartcard Reader Base for QHD+ Panel and Windows 8
1
401-AADF
No Additional Hard Drive
1
320-BBDS
Back cover QHD+ panel WiGig
1
319-BBBX
Bezel cam/mic QHD+
1
346-BBES
Smart Card Reader (Contact Only, No Contactless Smart Card Reader) and No Fingerprint Reader Palmrest
1
450-AATJ
180W AC Adapter
1
451-BBFM
No additional battery
1
658-BBRB
Waves Maxx Audio
1
451-BBDJ
9-cell (97Wh) Lithium Ion battery with ExpressCharge

 

My rep called me, today. Because of some snafu with the order (wrong sku # for packing material?), my order had to be canceled and re-entered. This was AFTER they had already delayed it an additional week.

Now I'm back to square one.

I did use the opportunity to change my SSD to a 750gb hard drive (7200 rpm). I'm ordering (2) ssd's from Crucial, instead. Long story short - Dell lost about $300, and I get better gear. One drive is msata 480gb, the other is sata 960gb. I'll use the 750 as a 3rd backup drive.

Good luck. My original order was 9/19. My new ship date is 10/23

 

got my M6800 today. i find the sound from the DVD drive, every minute , very annoying as well. i've got a slot drive in my other Dell laptop and it certainly does not do this very strange seeking every minute !

 

where did you get the A03 bios from ? i can't find it on the UK Dell Support site.

 

For anyone who has a 6800, do you know is you can choose to make 'any' of the (4) hard drives the boot drive?

I've got one on order. Planning on putting a 480gb msata drive in, along with a 960gb sata drive in the "secondary" bay, which from the manual, is the harder one to get to (not removable).

I'd like to put a 750gb hard drive in the quick eject bay, for backup or storage.

I have also ordered and received an optical bad hard drive caddy. I took a chance and got the one spec'd for an m6700 - do you think that this one will work?:

http://www.newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_3&products_id=269

I'd like to use that for additional options, as they arise. Do you know if these can be easily pulled out?? On my m4400, it had a pop-out latch, like the dvd did. With the slot load drive, I suspect things will be a little different?

Appreciate the help!

 

You can download it from here:

Driver Details | Dell US

 

In the bios you can select which devices to boot from and in which order to seek for boot devices.

As the chassis seems to be identical to the m6700 I would expect it to work, but there is no quick removal option. You need to remove the bottom cover and screws to change it.