M6600 Owners Thread

I'm sorry, but I have no idea what this means.

 

He means send a PM to member Mano G, who is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Dell, and he can arrange a panel replacement , especially for those that have the crappy Chi Mei made panels.

Please paypal me 50.00 for the translation...

 

For everybody whos screen flicker from time to time on lowest brightness settings, just update your BIOS to A07, it will fix your problem.

 

There is no certain way of providing this information.

As no one has tried this, we can't give you a definitive answer. But yes, all the other posts in the other forums point to backwards compatibility of Ivy Bridge to the Cougar Point Chipset, and the MXM 3.0B standard seems to remain again for the next gen 28nm GPUs.

I'd say yes it would be compatible.

 

You get into a hairy ground there. Usually when new components come out for a model, they don't rev every part (that would be very costly for parts left in inventory).

So if the M6600 next week has a 6010M available it should be upgradable, the heat-pipe and physical dimensions to fit into the M6600 case and motherboard should be compatible.

Same with recent processors available, notably the i72960XM.

All this should work, NOW.

If they put out the M6700 more then likely nothing will work without tweaks (modifying the heat pipe to bolt up and work), verifying the physical dimensions, drivers, etc.

So your good up to certain point. With the new ivy bridge hitting early 2012, I think those will be backwards compatible, so your good (hopefully).

What you need to hope for is the M6600 remains the flagship precision model and you see the option available on the dell website for these new options. If they rev the laptop model we are prob out of luck for the new GPUs (CPUs should be fine under Ivy Bridge, unless something funky is required for the bios)

 

didn't work for me, I'm on A07 and same issue . . .

 

Didn't help for me, but I have just resigned to not having it that low.

EDIT: For anyone who likes a more reasonable light source in front of your face at night, I recommend f.lux

 

Hey I know you installed the Os. I am planning to do the same. can you pls tell me if you removed the recovery partition. I am think to do it. but question how to do safely???

 

or can someone please suggest - How to format the whole primary drive before installing OS. I want to merge all the partitions before doing so.

 

When you install Windows, you can delete the partition easily right before you install.

When you are choosing where to install, click "drive options" and then choose delete after selecting the recovery partition. It is very simple.