Precision M4500 Owner's Lounge

My idle temps are 65°C not °F, sorry.

 

hmm, anyone know what sort of SDD we can put in the minipcie slot?

I know the Samsung PM is the one, but it's hard to find. Can we use any SATA Minipcie for this?

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I'm also in AHCI mode, and I hadn't noticed the same thing until it was mentioned here. I remember when I first got this laptop, timing that my whole cold boot process into Win7 or Linux was about 35 seconds. I didn't realize that about 20 seconds of it was spent staring at a blank, black screen.

I wonder if a BIOS setting is responsible for this?

 

hello,

im not sure if you were informed about this in the earlier postings but:

in the bios you can select whether you wanna do a fast boot or a slow but thorough boot. slow boot will just try to detect any changes in hardware "thoroughly" i guess... try to select one that is fast boot or something like that.

its in the bios check it out

 

If you read about three posts up you'll see that I talked about that. Makes next to no difference.

 

We aren't talking about booting, POSTing...Power-On-Self-Test.

Mine takes 20 seconds before starting to load windows....absolutely ridiculous, my M4400 takes 3 or 4 seconds to post.

If you have a disc in the opt drive when starting, add another 4 seconds to post time as it stalls the bios loading bar while it futilely spins it up to check if it's a bootable disc, despite the fact boot from opt drive is disabled in the bios.

It's the same with windows 7, XP and Linux, the OS is irrelevant as is the hard drive brand/type....on mine anyway, the fact I've actually timed it now after Pirx timed his, just annoys me even more.....20+ seconds, that's got to be some sort of record for the crappiest pre boot performance yet.

 

Does your fan run continuously with the quad 820 Tom?

 

Depending on how tom_bell07 times his boot, I'm also quite intrigued.

I timed mine in detail;

M4500, i7 740, Quadro880, 8GB RAM, Intel 120GB SSD, Windows7 64bit
Windows7 reinstalled without crapware, for the moment no virusscanner active

From the moment of pushing the power-button:

t=0s black screen
t=10s BIOS screen flashes by
t=14s cursor blinks for very short moment in upper left corner
t=20s "starting Windows"
t=32s "please wait" and a second later I can push <CTRL><ALT><DEL>

In the BIOS (still A05) , I have only the HDD (IRRT mode) in the boot sequence. I disabled the modem, have no miniSSD, no ONreader, no passwords set in BIOS. CPU XD support is enabled. BIOS is configured as "minimal boot", everything else like "adapter warnings"is enabled. VT for Direct I/O and Trusted Execution disabled. All Wireless Devices enabled.

 

Interesting, so it seems all of the M4500s are excruciatingly slow at posting. I should say that my 22s are for a "thorough" POST; if I do minimal POST, I cut off a whopping 2s to end up with 20s just like you guys. This is why I was hoping for this BIOS update, which I cannot install. However, the one person that reported installing it didn't see any improvements.

 

well my posting and booting seems as slow as my vostro, if not slower for the posting. i have the 7200rpm hdd. maybe complexity of the mobo (since there are so many components like all the card slots and etcc) is holding up.