M6600 Owners Thread

Hi. Do you have the circuit board information also? And can we buy that separately somewhere?
A few pictures would be awesome also.
Thanks.

 

Hi all,
Does anyone know how to install an icc profile?
From some of the info I have found it seems I need the premier color application to install it (a new CMYK profile that a printing house has sent to me), but the only option it has is to add the profile the screen is using at the moment (under Profiles, pressing the "Apply" button with the option to install new profile selected). So this assumes I have installed it previously on windows.
Now if I select the icc file on windows Explorer it shows up a button saying "Install Profile", but pressing it does nothing (no message, no change of colors, and nothing happens either on Premiere Color application when clicking the apply screen profile button). I gave up last year from trying but trying again for a third time. Anyone?

 

From my HWinfo:

Monitor Name:LG Philips LP173WF1
Monitor Name (Manuf): 173WF1 [DELL P/N: VCV1F]
Monitor Hardware ID:Monitor\LGD02DA
Color Bit Depth: 6 Bits per Primary Color
Display Type: RGB color

I'm sure Dell is not using TN RGB panels in M6600 (They were available in previous - M6500 model). All LG and AUO TN panels in M6600 are WLED type.

So it must be HWinfo bug in recognition.

 

I had a Chi Mei screen which was promptly replaced to an Lg. this screen was better, but it had the low light flickering thing. I did not use it in low light so I lived with it. Today I noticed a small white light line near the top of the screen on both sides. Dell will replace it to a confirmed AUO screen now (I do hope this white lights are not gpu error).

I had a hardware calibrated screen profile for the LG from this fine topic.

Which gets me to me question. Does anyone have a hardware calibrated profile for m8900 and AUO full hd non touch screen?

Thank you in advance.

 

@Tom1939

After your problems with Lg panel... did you request AUO panel or Dell proposed it itself?

 

I didn't use the Premier Color app for very long as it seemed to make more of a mess of my profiles than anything else, especially those with gamma tables. You can set your profile in Windows 7 from the Color Management option in the control panel. I think the "Install Profile" just copies the icc file to C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color.

EDIT: Until Dell updates our Intel HD3000 drivers you may find your profile drops after you resume and / or unlock your workstation. This app from x-rite is a quick & easy way to switch / reapply profiles http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=757&Action=support&SoftwareID=539, http://www.damiensymonds.com.au/art_vista.html

 

Tom and others,

I'm also using an LG display after Dell replaced the original Chi Mei.

I do not experience low-light flickering. My brightness setting is typically 25-30% for routine email, word processing, and internet activity.

About three-four times during twenty four hours at apparent random, I see a single, bright-white flash on the display that does not correlate with any particular action or program--although I have not yet ruled out PremierColor.

This flash has occurred with both A06 and A07 BIOS. My cpu core temperatures are typically 43-to-48 degrees Celsius and rarely exceed 60 degrees. GPU temperatures are similar, as reported in HWinINFO64.

Would anyone please offer an explanation for why the M6600 LG screen randomly displays a single bright flash--as distinct from flickering?

Thanks for your comments.

--John

 

In case any M6600 owner's missed it: http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...654047-optimus-enable-m6600-fireprom8900.html

 

My M6600 can't go a whole day without locking up due to the unstable drivers for the Quadro 4000M. It usually happens when the driver/card decide to change power states. I.e. if I go from watching a YouTube video at low resolution in a brower window to 480p fullscreen.

I also will see "patches" of color across both screens. I'm running dual HP LP2475w monitors which I KNOW are good and I'm using quality cables.

Is this just me or is this a common problem ?

I've tried the Dell drivers, I've tried the NVidia drivers. I"ve used NVidia Inspector to play with forcing my card to stay in just one power state, but the drivers will still crash once a day either with:

1. Temporary screen corruption, short system pause and then things are "Ok".
2. Patches of color. Only cured by rebooting.
3. Hard lockup with no event log message of the driver crash.

I'm really bummed that this expensive card has such crappy drivers.

 

message duplicated (read below)