Precision M4600 Owners Lounge

Hi, I've got fan noise problem with my M4600, I know lots of people here have been sufferring from the same issue. But one of my friends claimed that his M4600 doesn't have such pain. I myself also spoke to DELL's online support engineer, he told that they don't have any solution so far. But if you read the threads here you will know we probably could get help from SpeedFan team, which might be on the way to improve this utility to make it work with M4600 for better manual fan control.

 

Thanks for your reply (^_-)

 

Hi Kai Zhou,
Yes you are most likely to have the fan problem, although with the nVidia 2000m the back and forth should be less frequent than the FirePro (but just as noisy).
Here again, I would strongly advise calling, bugging and annoying Dell about this problem. When you do, remind them that Apple MBP and IBM Thinkpads have a proper fan management, and an ON/OFF fan management shouldn't be seen on a high end machine like the M4600 (shouldn't be seen at all in fact) because it makes any office task annoying to unbearable.

Despite the noise, I would still recommend the M4600 though, so you can safely go for it.

 

SpeedFan has a recent beta (4.46 Beta 4 , released 14 Feb 2012) which includes this promising info in the release notes:

No data on which systems, but maybe someone who has the issue could try it and report back?

 

I have no problems with my fan - no noise. Nothing.

 

mine does cycle on and off but it not really that much of a bother to me.

Still the battery life is one concern, just on that I am thinking about the 2000M GPU

I may consider asking dell to switch them if there really is a problem they cannot fix with the ATI card.

 

Already tried 4.46b2, submitted a bug report : http://www.bugtrack.almico.com/view.php?id=1934
B3 and B4 don't bring anything in the changelog.
In a nutshell : does not work on 64 bits OS. Everyone is impacted : http://www.bugtrack.almico.com/view.php?id=1352

@boerd: Linux has its own APIs to controls the fans (check it through /sys/acpi), which indeed solves the problem. Have you tried running your laptop natively on Windows 7 x64 and see if the fan are as quiet ? I would be surprised.

 

I will post a report when it arrives.
I'll either pay for it or refuse it depending on how serious the problem is, Dell said that I can have 30 days time to judge since it arrived.
Thank you for your reply.

 

Ah - thanks for the report.

 

Hi! I have recently purchased a M4600 with a IPS panel. But when I look for the screen type in the bios system configuration, it only reports: 15.6" FHD
Is it right for the IPS RGB-led panel? How can I be sure that the panel is the IPS one?

Furthermore, I am not able to see the webcam in linux. Have anybody the same problem?