Precision M4600 Owners Lounge

Thanks for your reply, I have seen a 2.5" Drive Bay adaptor on Ebay so I assumed 2.5" would be OK. Another important issue would be the Sata type for main HDD and ODD, are they both 6GB/s since the configuration is recent? Or will the RAID only support 3GB/s to both interfaces?

 

has anyone had any issues with intel ssd's and their m4600? I have an 80gb x25-m drive and the thing keeps bsoding. I reinstalled the os and then used the newest ati driver and it seemed to fix the random bsoding, but the ssd doesnt pass intel's full diagnostic scan.

is anyone else having this issue? thanks.

 

I hope you find your answer here I did all i can to help you out.

 

I was under the impression that like the W520, RAID 1 or 0 had to be specified at the time of order because the motherboard is different between RAID enabled and non RAID enabled, mine isn't as it's not an option on my local website, and it has no facility in the bios for setting up an array, only IRRT which isn't a true RAID array.

I would take that as being faulty and lodge an RMA

 

I think with the Dell BIOS'es you still have the option to select RAID 0,1 and 5 despite what you order initially. It is all hardcoded the same. In fact for this generation, Dell has been using a single motherboard and BIOS revisions for all their units, regardless if it is a dual-core or quad-core to Optimus or not. It is all programmed and built to enable and disable features based on the other parts that is attached to the motherboard at a time.

 

That's something I'm not impressed at all with this Laptop, especially when idle.
Yes fans are quiet but they keep spinning up and down every once in a while, in my office it happens every 20 or so seconds and it is annoying.

Also I've observed this issue Laptop Emits a High-Pitched Buzzing Noise

It's not dramatic and no worse than my previous Elitebook but it's there.

Ah btw after weeks of constant spin up, spin down cooler is making "not very healthy" noise now, so I'd guess when Dell will release next bios which should correct this fan behaviour I'd need to call for replace anyway

 

Mines been fairly quit, fan starts up when I load a game or a cad program as expected, but nothing out of the ordinary in the 2 months I've had it.

 

what is your config? mine is quite weak so I'd expect something dead silent when idle, I have Core 5 with FirePro and SSD drive

 

Mines quite quiet.. Fans go once in a while but thats the only noise (have an OCZ SSD drive).

 

Core i7, Quadro 2000M (no optimus), mini ssd. If it's pretty bad you can probably call up CS and have them take a look.