M6600 Owners Thread

ok thanks guys ill give it a go.

 

Codec, that's great news! Everybody was waiting for it! Could You please post here some screenshots?

*Temp in HWinfo? Idle/Stress?.
*How 7970m was recognized by BIOS? as "unknown card"?.
*Which BIOS is installed in your M6600?

I think will be better when you create new thread on NBR: ''7970m in Dell M6600".

Thx for info.

 

1.the problem i was having with the screen dimming is gone now that i have uninstalled premiercolour app. and when i reinstalled the problem was back.

2. os is on the 750gb first hard drive 'c' and the ssd is showing as data part 1 'd'.

i think ideally os should be on the ssd. to do this do i have to reinstall windows onto the 'd' drive?

and is there any need for me to take the back cover off and swap over the position of these 2 drives?

i didnt get a windows 7 disk with the laptop so do i have to buy one which can be expenxive (about £100) or is there another way round it?

 

You will probably see better performance with the OS on the SSD. If you're happy with your current install you can always create a system image using windows backup and restore it to the SSD. If your current OS partition is larger than the SSD make sure you shrink it before you create the system image or you won't be able to restore the image (I think). You should also create a repair disk prior to the restore. You shouldn't need to move the drives from one bay to the other, you can simply reorder the boot sequence in the BIOS but you may want to remove HDD prior to booting from SSD just to ensure that you are booting from the correct install.

 

thanks sounds a bit complicated never done this sort of thing before.

 

Try going into the Intel IGP management panel, and setting the Intel IGP power setting to no power saver.

That's what it is.. IGP power saving kicking in and lowering the bit-scale.

 

It's not too tough. Google is your friend as is the Windows Backup help.

You can adjust the size of a partition from Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management. Just right click on the partition you want to re-size and select "Shrink Volume".

Create your system repair disk by going to the Control Panel > System and Security > Backup & Restore. Look for "Create a system repair disk" (it's on the left).

Just make sure you backup any data on your SSD as you will be formatting it when restoring your system image to it.

If you have an external hard drive lying around you can write your system image to that. Remove your current HDD with the OS. Boot from the Repair Disk you created earlier, then restore to the SSD. If anything goes horribly wrong you can simply put the HDD back in the machine & you're back at square 1.

PS - You don't need to remove the back cover (not that it's difficult to do) to remove the drive in bay 1. Simply pop out the battery, and you will see a latch on the outside edge which will eject the hard drive from the side of the laptop. If you haven't done this before the latch will be secured with a screw.

 

where do i find the intel igp management panel please. im such a noob i cant find what youre referring to.


thanks dafunk ill try if worse comes to worse i can always try and get dell support to walk me through it.

 

There should be a monitor-like icon in the bottom right next to the clock.

Let me know if you need anything else.

 

thanks guys