Precision M4600 Owners Lounge

I already reseated the m4000. I do not believe that is the problem. thanks for your input though. I have a feeling this is just a problem with using a GPU not designed for the laptop. the problem is not a deal breaker, it is just a little annoyance. I am curious if anyone else has this problem. thanks.

 

I got my m4000 installed, and I too have a similar issue. My laptop wakes up just fine from sleep, but when I restart the machine, the boot gets caught up somewhere, screens never power on, even my keyboard doesnt light up. I just hear the fans running. Have to hold the power button, and turn it back on, and all is fine.

 

Sorry to piss you guys off, but I did not (m4000) and do not (m5100) experience the same problems....

 

interesting. hmm.
RobNL73, did you do anything out of the ordinary to your machine in terms of sleep/hibernate settings or shut anything off?
I wonder if there is some power setting in ATI catalyst control center / firepro control center for power. I'm going to check on that soon.
I bet the firepro control center is overriding windows power settings and keeping GPU powered during sleep or something, preventing proper restart.
also, are you running win 7 x64?
did you remove the catalyst control center / firepro control center and just use the driver?

Also, t3mulligan, that is the exact same problem I'm having.

Thanks for your help in this

 

Commissioner, I used the autodetect driver program, which installed catalyst omega, 14.2xx. I did not have the sleep problem, instead, when I rebooted, it would never come back up, just saw a black screen and had to hold power to shut it off. Sleep worked fine. I think it was never actually getting completely powered off, it would get held up before going down.

I also had an issue with when enabling eyefinity, across my 3 external monitors, rather then extend, (for gaming purpose) the screens would go black, and a hard power cycle was again required. Turns out that is an issue with the omega driver for a while now, across ati's most popular lines of cards as well(r9 etc). I upgraded to 15.4 beta catalyst which solved the eyefinity problem, as well as the reboot problem, but now I have an issue with sleep.

With the new driver, when I hit sleep, the screen goes black, and fans keep spinning indefinitely.

I have to hold the power button to shut it off. I have the same issue with hibernate. Interestingly, after powering off via the button, and powering back on, after the hibernate fails, my session is restored just fine.

So hibernate successfully writes the ram to disk, but cannot actually change the power state of the machine.

I'm sure the issues are correctable, probably a simple fix, hopefully we can figure it out. I think it could be solved by using drivers prepared for the dell precision, but I have yet to be successful in getting the dell update package to install correctly. I have not been able to spend significant time working on the issue, hopefully I will tonight.


RobNL73, is there anyway you could post a screenshot or tell us what version of catalyst you are using, as well as driver version?

Just go to catalyst or firepro control panel, go to information, and software. Thanks! -tim

 

Ok, so I noticed that the computer goes to sleep just fine when it's on battery/unplugged. So it's definitely an issue with power settings/configuration somewhere.

 

I just got hold of this laptop as a temp replacement for my failing HDX16. It is so squary and bulky, like an old Cadillac. I can use it as a laptop
while also leaving my cup of tea on the side of its keyboard. If you carry it around you can also probably use it as a weapon to defend yourself, it
weighs 3+ kg and it feels pretty solid, so it could probably take some hits just fine.

Anyway, for what I want it to do, viz., sitting in a desk as a desktop, it is perfect.

 

Quote Tim:

RobNL73, is there anyway you could post a screenshot or tell us what version of catalyst you are using, as well as driver version?

Unquote:

I believe I have already done so?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/possible-gpu-upgrade-for-precision-m4600.772547/

Sorry for not visiting too often, work is killing me, presently.

Playing around with a M6400 right now, which I got damn cheap (120$), yesterday: QX9300 & M7820 + 2x 256Gb Crucials already ordered.

 

I still have not found a solution to the restart hang problem with the m4000 and my precision m4600. I tried reinstalling drivers and installing the beta catalyst driver as mentioned above, nothing solves the problem. I may be switching back to my m5950. could not find any m5100's for cheap online.

 

Are you using Linux? Because if you do, you most probably just need to set a reboot flag in your grub: http://michalorman.com/2013/10/fix-ubuntu-freeze-during-restart/

For me the "reboot=pci" setting did the trick.