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Wow...that greyscales everything for me....I'm running his profile in color management via control panel as DEFAULT. Something is different with us for sure.

 

did you try installing it using the spyder profile chooser?

 

No...where is the spyder profile chooser? I installed it by right clicking the .icm file and setting it as default in color management. I did turn down the digital vibrance from 50% to 45% to tone down the reds, but beyond that it goes grayscale looking. I'm using the latest driver from Nvidia.com, and have the 'applications control color' tick box checked like you. What else could it be? I'm may be missing something here, have I that you see? (the colors are looking pretty good....the profile changed the look for the better)

 

goto this link: http://support.datacolor.com/index.php?languageid=1&group=colorvision&_m=downloads&_a=view

and click on Profile Chooser 1.0.8 and use that to install it. Other than that its probably the difference in our drivers. I read too much grief over the latest nvidia drivers so I decided to stick with what dell has on its site.

 

The latest Nvidia drivers are good and in it they changed the scale of the digital vibrance control. Now instead of normal being zero is is 50%. Works well for me. No glitches so far.

John

 

I attached a profile for the samsung/nvidia setup. 100 brightness 65k and 2.2. Change the extension to .icc and right click should ask if you want it installed. Check "use my settings for this device" and click set as default profile. Also in power settings for the screen, make sure to set brightness on ac to 60%. Also keep display settings at ntsc mode if you have changed it.

John

 

anyone try using autocad 2010 and the quadro fx 2800m? There is no autocad driver support from the 3DCONFIG --> update feature and I searched on the autodesk website to see if they had anything for the 2800M and they don't, but they have a driver update for the 3800M.

Anywho, the nvidia drivers "found" I was running autocad and installed their own drivers to autocad and now 3D support is available and on, when it was disabled with the autodesk driver.

I guess its just an observation more than anything. I've never had this issue before but I suppose since nvidia has its own driver for autocad it still makes the machine ISV certified?

I just figured since dell tested this machine with 100s of vendors there would be a driver update from the vendor's website, not nvidia. Not complaining just making an observation once more.

I suppose the systems dell sent out were all using the 3800M and not the 2800M, perhaps that explains it.

 

No problems here. Hibernate or sleep and resume work flawlessly for me. I did reinstall Windows 7 x64 from scratch. So maybe something in your installation causes problems. Are you using the preinstalled OS from Dell? Any chance to replace it with a clean install?

 

Forgot to mention that the the battery life on the Dell Precision M6500 is amazing! I am getting 3 hours of life here - way better than the 1 hour on my Alienware M15x and we are not even talking about the M17x yet. I am impressed! ^_^

 

I think there is some truth to this. I was having issues install adobe master collection cs4 and any time under load my system would switch music output from the headphone jack (i had headphones plugged in) to the system speakers but since my clean install none of those problems are present.