M6600 Owners Thread

Go download HWinfo64, and run the yellow lightening bolt sensors icon at the tool bar. What are the temps at idle not running anything also just before the laptop lags and you shut it down? Core1 and core 2, also the GPU thermal diode temp, Mem ambient. Look at the fan speeds also. Mine are 0 rpms at idle. And 2794, 2981 max.

Mine warmed up and at idle my cpu core temps are 48c to 53c, both the dell and digital sensors are pretty close on the cpu.
When running some video for 2 or 3 min the fans actually came on and the temps were less then idle.

Idle Dell GPU sensor is 49c and Ati GPU sensor is 68c
Running 3Dmark Dell GPU sensor 52c, Ati sensor 77c

How much memory does your M6600 have?

 

nVidia have put the 305.93 drivers back up for the Quadro. I have installed them this time and all seems to be working properly.

 

This method works very good during a clean install:

Relocate User Profiles/Folders and ProgramData

Accessing Diskpart

Using the Clean command

When using the provided script change the drive letters to uppercase - no problem.
There might be some questions, if so please pre-read thoroughly before asking.
I've done this many times and will try to assist if requested.

 

Unfortunately, I cannot confirm - tried that driver again, and at least one of my CUDA-intensive application (NLE) crashes with it. Still, the only 100% stable driver for me is the 296.79

 

Thanks a lot for these comprehensive instructions. I will sure follow them when reinstalling from scratch - for the time being though, is there a safe way of moving the users and ProgramData folders from C:\ to D:\ ?

 

In those instructions he mentions post number 22 that is hyperlinked if you want to try moving them within an existing image.

Technically what is achieved is a Mounted Drive point. The nVidia Drivers sometimes don't play nice and are hardcoded to drive C: and recreates them, as well as a minor Windows glitch that doesn't delete the existing C: folders - afterwards you can manually delete and then create a hardlink pointer using the command mklink to prevent software from doing this.

 

Yes, I've seen this - however, is the procedure the same if certain "special" folders for a given user (myself) have already been moved to D:\ using the special folder's option ("Location")? I mean Documents, Pictures, Videos and Music... Or, do I have to first revert those special folders back to C:\? If the latter, the problem is they won't fit to my C:\ drive anymore

 

Probably you can just move your datafiles to any unreserved temporarily named folder on the HDD, delete your pointers, make the move and then copy your files to the new destination. Make sure to backup before trying.

Edit: I don't think your current setup would have the User Profiles anywhere other than C:\, so you should be able to just revert your links back to their original locations.

 

User Profiles and ProgramData are of course still on C:\ (and start to overflow the tiny miniCard), what's relocated are all Libraries. BTW, only the latter actually can be relocated using "Location" in the folder Options, so I don't quite understnad your "Edit" comment

One more question, if you will, please: in the script the the W7 installation DVD drive letter is present; I assume that when running it with W7 already installed, I must load my W7 DVD into the drive?

 

MoldCAD - I completely understand and might have added to the confusion. I realize you've used the simple location changer to point libraries and such to folders you've created on the HDD. Basically to head off any unforseen disruption you'd want to put every custom location back to where it was originally but keep your datafiles in some other named folder on HDD.

Yes you'll need to adjust your drive letters within the script.

Give yourself plenty of time for the task. It is very much more predictable for a clean install. If something went terribly wrong during an existing image relocation you'd want time for a clean install.

Post relocation: Here's how to Create Junctions (Hardlinks) to relocated folders:
Start Command Prompt as Administrator,
Move to C:\ by typing: chdir /d C:\ (Enter)
Type command:
MKLINK /J C:\ProgramData D:\ProgramData (Enter)
MKLINK /J C:\Users D:\Users (Enter)

Be sure to remove those folders from C:\ before starting.
If they can't be deleted then open services.msc, find Windows Search and turn off then disable. Perform the commands. After a reboot then reenable and turn on.