Precision M4500 Owner's Lounge

Thanks for the reply -- now the tough one: to M4500 or to W510 .... "that is the question" Mr Spok.

Opinions?

 

I wouldn't be against owning either, Dell's after sales and pricing is better where I live, as well as having a more powerful GPU option, the 1600x900 screen on mine isn't exactly something to lust after, but I haven't seen the Lenovo one to compare yet
There is a review on each in the forum in case you were unaware.

Lenovo ThinkPad W510 Review

Dell Precision M4500 Review

 

Hey guys, I'm desperate. I've made my own thread, but no one's read it, so I'm hoping i can get some help here instead.

I'm trying to get an Ericsson F3507g HSPA wwan card pulled from an LG netbook to work with my m4500. No matter what I try, i can't manage to get the drivers to install. Every package says Error 23000. authentication error, please contact manuafactuer.

I'm at a total loss. . .

 

I managed to get through this by extracting the driver from installator and installing it manually. It didn't help much. I was able to see signal strength, name of my operator etc. but whenever I tried to connect to net the card would self-restart (the light blinked) and I was where I started.

It works in linux though.

 

I beleive covering pin 20 prevents the restart, at least with Lenovo pc's woth thier version of the card. How did you extract the drivers? None of the ones I found worked, I've tried Universal Extractor to no avail. . .

The card works great in ubuntu 10.10, but unfortunately i need windows. . .

Thanks again!

 

After fighting with the outlet bots I was finally able to get an M4500. So first do these thing burn the screen as been reported or are these isolated cases?

 

I find the LG screen (1600x900 ) on this model a bit grainy, specially when blue tones are being displayed. Text on white background looks crisp on the other hand. Is it normal or should I ask a LCD replacement to Dell? I remember that some people reported the same problem on the M4400 thread but my M4400 came with a nicer Samsung panel.

 

Hi,
I have a M4500, had for some months now.

My main problem is that my machine freeze, sometimes during action, when I click something and sometimes in idle mode (if I leave it on over night doing nothing, I found the screen black (power save mode) but all LED are alive, but impossible to wake no response what so ever no matter which button/keys I press).

I run XP 32 bit and configuration as in my footer...

Other than that I don't see en super fast action seem like seven of the eight prop's are ideling most of the time and battery time sucks big time.

 

Could be a hardware problem. You might back it up, then disconnect any peripherals, then try running the built-in Dell diagnostics. They might identify/flag a hardware problem.

If nothing shows up in the diagnostic testing, make sure the latest versions of BIOS, device drivers and system software are installed.

 

Thanks, I have installed all latest drivers from DELL, including Bios.
I try to avoid the diagonostics as long as possible since its very time consuming...

I use truecrypt to encrypt my harddrive, I update to the latest release (7.0a) 2 days ago and I managed to leave my machine on over night without a freeze for the first time in a long time.

I bought the SSD to have a fast system since I do some video editing, when doing that my processors doesn't show any action but the system is slow and unresponsive, I assume that disk access is limiting the performance. Any thought on how to improve this?