New M6500 Discussion Thread

Yes, thanks very much havoctex for the HT option in the new BIOS. Much appreciated.

 

Havoctex, my HDD are in the right order, I always made the HDD to be the first place. I cant login to Win7 even use disk. One thing I worry about is I lose my drive , Please tell me what should I do

 

Mitchellboy, did your login problem happen immediately after updating the BIOS, or were you trying to do something else as well when it happened. Just that you say that you tried to install Windows 7 32 bit, or was that just now in order to try and fix the problem.

Do you have anything else attached, such as a USB drive or something that might be higher in the boot priority that is stopping the boot into Windows.

It does sound very unlikely that your hard drive is the problem, although one can never rule it out. If in doubt perhaps try taking the drive out and mount it in another pc or an external enclosure. Also have you tried using the Windows Repair disk if you have one or made one.

Try that first then let us know what happens.

 

Thanks T_tangent, I just got problem after I updated the bios, and I cant login, i can see "starting windows" and then blue screen and restart, I try to install xp 32bit, and windows 64bit and after they loaded the files and got ready to install, the laptop was frozen, I hope its not hard drive problem. Now I only have my t60p beside me but it cant load 64bit windows 7. Now I am using WinPE 64bit version to load my system and check if everthing is still here. Thanks for your help! I am also in the UK, I dont think I can contact with engineers at the night time.

 

I try everything, install Win7 64bit and xp 32bit, and I tried WinPE 64bit, after it loaded and the laptop just stoped at "starting Windows"
I tried to use WinPE 32bit, and it work, but It cant check anything about my laptop.

 

Hi havoctex - Do you have any updates on the USB 3.0 card upgrade for us early adopters?

 

Turned off HT and let HD-Tune measure my SSD again, dropped from around 150 mb/s to 130 mb/s. Turned on HT again and am back at around 150 mb/s. Don't know how HT correlates to disk access but the drop was consistent for me as I ran HD tune three times without HT even with a reboot inbetween, just in case.

I have a SuperTalent UltraDrive GX firmware 1916, so TRIM is supported and used with Win7 AHCI.

I doubt that it is such a good idea to disable HT. Even if apps do not make use of more than one or two cores they might not be hurt running on a system with 8 CPUs.

BTW: upgrading to A03 made the touchpad driver stop working. Had to uninstall/reinstall to get it working again. Not even the tap to click feature does work without that driver. The same happened when I installed the new ATI drivers. Seems that the touchpad driver could benefit from some bug fixing.

 

What disk mode do you use? IDE, AHCI or RAID?
WinXP does support AHCI only with SP2 or up, so make sure that your WinXP installation CD or WinPE does include SP2 if you use AHCI.

Could it be that that setting changed when you upgraded the bios? Did you maybe go through the bios settings and die accidentially change that option?

You could try to change that setting and check if Win7 boots up again.

 

SvenC, I tried Winxp SP3 and win7 64bit disk as well , I am using AHCI, I dont think bios change settings, just like havoctex said , it might reset the hard drive. I cant do anyting about it even install the OS. I dont know if I am gonna lost my all files from my hard drive, I wanna kill by my self !!! Updated bios so many times and first time got this problem, I just open my two hardrive, one with PATA port, the other WD passpord with a fix sata connector. God want me to die...

 

Go to the bios, load default settings, save and try to boot your computer without changing any setting.
By the way, I tried A03 bios and it worked well for me. The bug I described previously in this topic is fixed. Well done Dell.