Precision M4400 Owner's Lounge *Part 2*

Glad you got your Echo Indigo sorted, Maiklas, but even I knew that you shouldn't plug in the card before you install the drivers - maybe it was a "man thing", I hear that they can't be bothered with instructions... from which you may gather that you have me wrongly gendered

As predicted, I've ditched the Sound Blaster Go! Pro - besides needing external speakers the recording volume was pants and I couldn't do anything about it.

Regarding my need to magic up StereoMix, I've seen a YouTube video where someone has done it with a SoundMax card in WindowsXP by changing the instructions in driver code. I tried to adjust the procedure for the IDT card in Windows7 but couldn't get anywhere.

As there are such clever M4400 users I wonder if any of them would be willing to have a look in WDM\STWRT64.INF and see if they can find what to alter there (if that's the right place - I had to guess because the XP instructions were so different).

This is the video I found re SoundMax/WindowsXP.

 

Well, my M4400's CCFL WUXGA panel is showing signs of the fluorescent bulb wanting to crap out so I'm looking at swapping it out with its RGBLED equivalent. The panels themselves can be found without too much issue, but where can I find the associated screen case/bezel and inverter? They seem next to impossible to find on eBay and google yields little.

 

Can you install Windows 8 on a M4400?

 

Dell m4400 received a new bios update A29!

Anyone know if this update fix the graphic drivers issue, with the BSOD? would be really nice :/

thanks

 

I'm only on bios A14, running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit - never had BSOD issues

If anyone would like to point out the advantages of updating the bios, and to which bios, I'd be grateful.

 

The BSOD issues serpao is referring to only happens when you try and use the newest graphics drivers directly from NVidia instead of from Dell. You would have the same problem with A14 if you tried them as well.


TrueG

 

Thank you TrueG.

Do you know if the NVidia drivers would have any significant advantage re 24/7 recording via screen capture and stream?

 

I can't say for certain, but I wouldn't think so.

I don't think they would even make that much of a difference in gaming, but it's nice to have the most current drivers and they sometime fix issues with some games.


TrueG

 

The PowerMizer work-around described in this nVidia forum worked for me and others:
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/517442/geforce-drivers/quadro-fx-770m-296-35-bluescreen/post/3776941/#3776941

Didn't make a drastic improvement for basic/2D/WEI graphics performance but I'm hoping my OpenGL 3D code will run better.

 

I just had a black screen for a moment or two, when it recovered a notice popped up - too briefly for me to catch any more than the heading, which was something like:

Display driver suffered a failure and has recovered".

Could anyone tell me if this is significant?