New M6500 Discussion Thread

First thing I do with any Dell is do a clean install. Not including any standard issue software or driver we all know are not stable.

The M6500 the E6410 and the M4500 right out of the box has stupid issues with either sysprep or driver/software bugs. i don't really understand how such a major company could have such issues with their images out of the box.

Secondly another thing that really pissed me off is on the E6410/6510/M4500 how they relocated the free fall sensor to the motherboard and require software for it. When you prep your own image with sysprep their stupid free fall sensor detection software pops up when sysprep runs prompting to reboot in the middle of driver detection and hangs up sysprep if you dont exit out quick enough.

Lesson being re-build your system with the Dell Windows7 disk and install only what drivers you absolutely need.

 

My M6500 came with the absolute minimum installed - WinXP without even Cyberlink PowerDVD and it worked like a charm except for the annoying crackling sound that was due to the sound driver, which I uninstalled and then it worked fine with the standard Windows driver. I did a fresh Windows 7 install nevertheless and no crashes so far. The only minor "problem" I have left is the screen having a yellow tint whenever sunlight shines on its left corner (and yes, I have switched off all the environment sensors on the screen so it is annoying but at least still functional).

 

can anyone link a decent HD dell monitor to compliment the m6500? Don't need to ultimate best but good....open on sizes....thanks

 

What are you going to be using the monitor for and what is your budget?

 

Hi theZoid,


I am looking at dell’s U2410 it has a 1920x1200 maximum resolution of 16:10
widescreen aspect ratio 80,000:1 dynamic contrast ratios, 6 millisecond
response time for $499.00 check it out.

YouTube: Dell U2410 Ultra Sharp Monitor Overview, Three dell U2410's, and U2410 on Screen Display.
Dell U2410 Comparison Test, TN or ISP.


If you have the funds, dell’s U2711 is a sweet monitor, Stat-of-the Art Resolution
2560 x 1440 (WQHD) 16:9 Widescreen aspect ratio, 109 pixels per inch, 6 millisecond
Grey-to-gray response time and 80,000:1 maximum contrast ratio, for $1,099.00

YouTube: Dell Ultra Sharp U2711, and U2711 on Screen Display.



I hope this helps,

 

U2410. It goes on sale often. I can send you calibration curves from mine since mine shipped with the newer firmware that your should also
ship with.

 

Hi Everybody.

Last saturday, finally arrived my M6500 after 40 days of have had bought it.

The thing is that in these 3 days I had noticed akwards or stranges behaivor of my new laptop.
1.- One blue screen, unfortunatly don´t remember what was the problem.
2.- Yesterday I was playing Live For Speed and after 2 hours my Frames Per Second drop to 8. This last 1 minute. In this game I can play with full settings of video at 200-215FPS but I limited to 100FPS.
3.- When I run Sisoftware sandra 2010 Show me this Warning 242.- "Dynamic Overclocking/Turbo engaged. Performance will not be consistent!

And Finally, I´m interested in made other some benchmarks, wich other programs do I have to install.

Thanks in advance.

 

That's guys...the U2410 is exactly what I'm looking for....Bokeh...cool, I'll let you know when I get it...

EDIT: they've got it listed now at 599.00...and I can't find my coupons..anyone have a link?

 

use this as a gadget to see if turbo is engaged...it's intel gadget:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/18353/eng/TurboBoostSetup.exe

I'm using a 'dell install' and don't have problems, but I scour the registry, uninstall things and whatnot so it's hard to tell what's causing that.

 

Well i cant belive after one month of waiting it finally shipped, i got the tracking numer and everything was good. but about one hour ago my status by UPS changed to "NATURAL DISASTER". How funny is that :-(. They were suposed to send it to Vienna on a plane but because of the volcano in Island they cant :-((((