Precision M4600 Owners Lounge

Correct, M4000 seen as 7700, M5100 seen as 8800.
With me, it was plug 'n play, with Firepro drivers from AMD website.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/workstation/mobile?oem=Dell&os=Windows 8.1 - 64
Provided you are using W8.1 (64)

 

wow, so I guess it works fine then. wow. Im just gonna contact adobe and see if the 7700m works with their gpu acceleration. I mean, it should, but, again, if they just used a simple LUT to define which cards are allowed to use their GPU acceleration feature, I may just go for thr m5100, cause both the 8870 and the m5100 are supported.
I have a feeling it will work fine regardless, but I'll call and ask em anyways.
Thanks for all your help.

 

Put firepro driver on it if you want to get the proper name, I haven't seen any perfomance difference, even benchmark(specperf) cant tell. But each software may be little picky.

 

I have the firepro drivers, but nevertheless: The M5100 is detected as 8800 (8870, to be precise).

Anyhow, for me it works like a charm, but am envious on M4700 & K2200M combination.

Hell, if I only had a few bucks to spend, but it' just one financial setback after another, at present...

Not complaining though, got a job and a roof over my head...

 

hahaha. the k2200 looks pretty sweet, but I think I'd rather have a m6100 in a mxm 3.0a card
if they ever make it, that is.
I think I'll just upgrade to a m5100 for now.

 

Good to hear that your dock works!

As for adobe enabling gpu acceleration, I know there are several tutorials on editing the inf file of the driver you're using to be recognized as a different gpu. It involves finding your device ID, and doing a simple find/replace in the inf file. You can then force windows to accept your modified inf by going to update driver, and selecting it manually, hopefully it just works off the bat, however. Lots of different threads on it, some call it "softmod".

Also,
I went ahead and ordered the M4000 on ebay today. Anyone have experience with upgrading from an Nvidia? I currently have the quadro 1000m, and am wondering if I need to order a different heat sink, or if my existing heat sink will work. The two part numbers I found were P854T, and 6CW3P. Anyone have experience?

Thanks

 

Curious, is anyone having restart problems with their upgraded GPU? my firepro m4000 is working flawless for the most part on my m4600 however, I am having restart hangs. as in the laptop will shut off, but on next power up, laptop will come on, no splash screen, nothing and hang. no output to external monitors. this is on my old OS build of my firepro m5950, so that could be causing it. I have yet to fully test if this restart problem happens on my test build with new win7 install. will be doing that soon. thanks.

 

I'll have mine on monday so we'll see how it works. Could definitely be a drive issue. Are you properly clearing the old drivers? Might be best to run a fresh install of windows. What outputs are you using on your dock?

 

the restart problem is present on both my old m5950 ssd build and my new win7 ssd test build. This problem occurs regardless of what is plugged into the laptop, whether it is on a dock or on battery.

my m4600 system specs:
-i7 2720qm
-32gb crucial ram
-firepro m4000 (recognized as hd 7700m)
-512gb m550 (main)
-750gb wd scorpio black (2ndary drive)
-128gb m4 (test ssd, swapped with main)
-logitech g400s
-dell e port replicator plus (non usb3.0) + appropriate PSU
-u2410 display port (on dock)
-2007wfp vga (on dock)

specs on the test ssd:
-drivers installed: chipset, ethernet, wifi, amd drivers,
-firefox
-hibernation NOT disabled (windows 7 stock defaults power button to sleep)

specs on main ssd:
-adobe cc, firefox, chrome, lot of other programs, all associated drivers, amd m4000 drivers
-hibernation disabled

details on the restart problem:
If I use my laptop for even 5 min, put it into sleep, then turn it back on, then restart, the system hangs on reboot
the laptop is on (leds all on) dell splash screen never loads, screens remain black. On dock all screens remain black. If you try to pull laptop off dock to fix problem, problem persists. laptop still has a black screen, non responsive. in order to get laptop out of hang you must hold pwr button for 5 seconds. fans throttle then machine shuts off. then you have to push pwr to start up laptop again.
I have tested if it was a problem with my ssd by using a new win7 instal on my test ssd. the problem still persists.
this problem occurs ONLY if I put my laptop to sleep, and that holds true to both ssd's. if it is not put to sleep, the machine restarts fine, whether on dock or on battery.
however, the moment you sleep the laptop and then try to restart, it will not restart.
I have tried the laptop with nothing in but the m4000, ram and ssd, problem still happens.
Again, if I shut down the machine (even if I do put machine into standby) there is not a problem. it is using the laptop, then putting it to sleep, then restarting which creates this problem.

I am curious if anyone with a firepro m5100 installed has this problem.

Thanks!

 

If you don't see dell splash screen, check the connection of the components.

Sent from my 306SH