News on Haswell based mobile Precision M6800 ?

If it helps at all, I've been having the same odd behavior on my desktop after rebuilding it, I assumed it was RAM related and ran memtest and prime95, but the freezing persisted.

Finally after testing Motherboard and a new HDD, I googled my videocard driver only to discover the geforce drivers were causing the same problem for others. Ended up rolling that back to April's rev and now everything is perfect.

Long story short, unless its ram, it's most likely video card driver causing random freezing. Most current driver is not always the best thing.





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I tried the video drivers at first, but have not been able to get it to update to anything but the current Dell drivers. The AMD drivers for the graphics don't recognize that anything compatible is installed. I didn't want to force the AMD driver install in case it made it even worse. I figure this thing is brand new, it should just work!!!

 

Did you select your specific card from support.amd.com?

I chose FirePro m6100 and got this download, which installed flawlessly:

AMD FirePro

 

I did but they did not work. I will give those a try and see how it comes out.

Thanks!!

 

Well, It says they were updated in the Device manager, but during the installation, it bluescreened on me.

I am still waiting to see what Dell has to say about it. I thought they were sending me a new computer, but I havent seen it yet and have no tracking information.

 

hello boys and girls!
I ordered the M6800, but Dell is delaying deliveries, it is simply absurd:
I paid the notebook November 27, shipped on 5 December and still not received it yet. Disappointed and disgusted.
In the meantime, I wish you a question
it is possible to install 32GB of RAM at 1866MHz ?

 

Hi SvenC,

I have exactly the same problem with my Dell Precision m6800. I already contacted Dell and they replaced the keyboard.... which helped nothing...
Have you found a solution yet? If not, I will confront them with the fact I'm not the only one having the error. I think it might be the Bios...

grtz,

Bart

 

Hi Bart,

currently I just live with it, as it is seldom enough or maybe I adjusted my typing a bit, don't know.

Not sure if that could be totally removed with a bios update.

My theory is that there is a little flex in the keyboard panel so that some typing combinations sum up to produce a vibration which causes a double contact of some keys. [Hope the description is understandable - no native speaker...]

But I would prefer your theory being correct, as a bios is exchanged more easily than a keyboard ;-)

With the current A04 the effect is still there.
Where you able to show the effect to the Dell technician?
Did they come up with other possible solutions than changing the keyboard?

 

are you using the international keyboard layout? that one does produce double 's and "s (among other things)...

 

it is possible, but you will have to disable optimus for it to work right (when using it with a quadro card).