Precision M4600 Owners Lounge

Correct. I have a Dell P2715Q 4k monitor and can't get 4k resolution from the 4600. You'd have to step up to the 4700 to get 4k resolution. I tried my wife's work supplied 4700 and indeed it does output 4k resolution.

 

Does the faceplate/bezel of the caddy match the M4600's color?

 

1. Did you resolved the freeze problems?

2. When you swapped out the nvidia card to an amd one, did you needed a different heat sink?

 

Not exactly but it doesn't bother me. Function over form for me.

 

IIRC you can take off the faceplate from your existing DVD drive and plop it on the enclosure.

 

Is the 2000M much better than the 1000M? Thinking of getting another 4600 from Dellrefurbished.com and they have one with the 2000M for only $20 more.

 

$20 more, worth it.

 

It came in today. Kinda disappointed that it has the crappy wifi card with the 2.4 GHz band only.
I'd like to get an Intel AC7260 card for it. I wonder if it will work with no problems on this machine.

 

Yes, it should work, afaik there's no wifi whitelist on the Mx600 and subsequent lines. But just to be sure, you could get an OEM made by / for Dell. There's plenty of them on ebay and elsewhere.

On a side note, the Ultimate-N 6300 (a dual-band card) on my M4600 works better than the AC7260 on my E7440...

 

I recently purchased a refurb Dell m4600. After upgrading the RAM from 8GB (4 x 4GB sticks) to 32GB (4 x Crucial 8GB sticks) it shuts down, locks up or goes to a blue screen with the IRQL_not_less_or_equal message.

I'm not sure how I found this out, but if I disable the NVIDIA Quadro 1000m driver it works just fine.

Or, if I replace the RAM with the original 8 GB it works ok.

I suspect it is a GPU heating issue, but I have no way to confirm, because neither GPU nor Speedfan display the GPU temperature on my system.

Has anyone ever experienced this before? Any ideas for troubleshooting, or what to do next?