Precision M4400 Owner's Lounge

Another question for M4400 owners. Can anyone confirm that the chipset is the Intel PM45?

Thanks.

 

When you talk about the importance of updating drivers for a new M4400, are you talking about getting the latest ones off the Dell support site or somewhere else?

 

Yes, im mostly talking about stock drivers.
You can download from the Dell-Support-Sites or from http://ftp.dell.com
ntune can be found on any websearch.

Modes are:
Off
Key Activation
(didn't understand 3rd mode exactly, think it may be key activation combined with ambient light sensor)

Its an addition. improves the speaker sound a little bit.

 

That can happen...trouble seems to come in bunches like grapes. Let us know. The CPU throttling is pure software, somewhere, not DELL but possible Nvidia.

 

Yes it is.

 

I wonder if Nvidia throttles Intel Chips...
or are you talking about GPU throtteling?

Bios A13 got no throtteling any more. got WOW WOTLK 50+frames instead of 18+

 

Fn key + Right Arrow key toggles the keyboard backlight through the different modes...

 

@GreenMountainBoy - Yes, the M4400 uses a PM45 chipset (A really nice design too since it will handle the QX9300, which most laptops this size do not; it also has 8GB RAM capacity).

 

Then why are we using DDR2 at 800MHz? Can we expect DDR3 motherboards in the near future?

 

Windows 7 and Vista SPDIF:

Here I am again with audio issues. But this time to come to some final (I hope) conclusions (at least for my system).

Only driver that turns on all the capabilities of my soundcard and DisplayPort, meaning I can direct the sound out to SPDIF and get up to 5.1 on my receiver is the original Microsoft driver. So, either you install the OS and NEVER update the IDT audio driver, letting the OS install the driver for you, or if had installed IDT you need to go to Device Manager, delete the driver (ticking the option to delete files), delete the IDT installation directory (normally c:\dell) and, I'm not 100% sure this helps, but it doesn't hurt either, delete all Temp files so there is no remains of the IDT installation files anywhere in the computer. When you restart the OS Microsoft Audio driver will be installed and SPDIF option will be there.

I also suggest using KMPlayer as it is the only free player that sent 5.1 through SPDIF to my receiver without needing any other external codec. I tried MPC, VLC, GOM, WINAMP and even with Codec packs they either did not work or got stuck. PowerDVD also works, but it doesn't play several types of files like MKV and is not free, although I believe all of us have it OEM.

Concerning M4400 speakers or listening through the headphones jack, Vista has the "click"/crack noise (lack of better word in English) problem, Windows 7 does not. I hope this helps people with the same needs.