Precision M4400 Owner's Lounge *Part 2*

Wow u must of spent a lot on this fully macked out laptop. Couldnt u of waited for the m4500 rather than replacing the unit?


@LPTP-LVR i noticed on the "windows wei score" thread your Ram scored equal to your cpu @6.4
my cpu is 6.4 but the ram is 5.9 .......Why is that? can i speed it up?

 

The 8gb of ram helps alot with the memory part of the wei score.

I get the following:
Processor 6.4
Ram 6.4
Graphics 6.5
Gaming Graphics 6.5
Hard disk 7.7

Overall 6.4

but when I had my first m4400 with only 4gb of ram my Ram score was 5.9

 

No idea, it's still the same RAM Dell put in it and i did nothing with it either.

 

i have at home an m4400 of a frind to reinstall all the system...

now i've a problem...

the audio and the system ( Vista 64 bit ) appared to me too slow...

the intro audio is not fluid but runwith many little stop...

the pc is an m4400 with , t9600 , 2x2gb ram , 250gb 7200 rpm FFS , fx770 , fingerprint reader , 1920x1200 ccfl..

 

what i must install to enable the "wifi search" led ??

controlpoint ?

 

It's likely that this is caused by the DPC problems these machines seem to have.

Try the following in the order as listed:

• Install the latest BIOS.
• Try updating the Intel Matrix Storage Manager (driver and application) using the latest version from the Intel site.
• Try setting the Wifi card to "802.11b/g only" (no 802.11a) via Windows Device Manager.
• Try disabling eSATA in BIOS

This is what I remember for my own configuration (see signature), you mileage may vary.
If this doesn't help, read this thread for more information: Dell Latitude DPC Latency Issues.


Edit: It'd be nice if you used proper capitalization, thank you.

 

resolved with intel matrix driver-software install...

now, for the "wifi" led , how to make it work ?

 

Did you fully update Windows after you got the laptop? I am troubleshooting a similar issue that arose for me starting around the 14th or so, which was around the same time I installed Windows Update KB972270. I'm removing it now to see if it fixes my issues, the laptop seems to hang when coming back from a suspend.

 

Considering your signature you have only one DIMM slot used (you have 1x4GB) and this could be the reason. Two DIMMs configurations (like 2x2GB or 2x4GB) work in Dual-channel which should work faster and could get higher WEI score I think.

 

Hi, with DPC latency checker 1.1.0 I have values from 300 to 500 microseconds. No periodical spikes but still isn't that quite high?

On my desktop from Dell (Optiplex 760) I have this latency only from 3 to 30 under any circumstances.

On M4400 I have latest BIOS, drivers (including Intel Matrix), using AHCI... doesn't matter if I turn of wifi or BT. I had these values on WinXP Pro x86 and I have them the same also with Win7 Pro x64.

What are your values?