New M6500 Discussion Thread

I solved by changing my SSD, with the original hard drive (Hitachi 250GB 7200RPM).
Now the AHCI and RAID work fine.

I test the my SSD on another PC, it work fine.

 

My engineer just change a refurnish board and new hard drive, and everthing was fine at beginning, after we reflash the bios, the system got the same problem again.

I am using Segate 500G 7200.4 Hard drive, I dont know whats going on in here, the engineer thinks its bios problem, he was so angery because he need to come on tuesday

 

There is one thing i need to say, Dell gave me a refurbish system board with different service tag, the board came from one german customer. They should clean the info of board and let engineer to input my service tag.

 

Is there any one know about this issue, is it the reason of Hard drive? because now i have 2 seagate hard drvie. Luk73 got the same problem as me at before but after he changed SSD instead of his original Hitachi hard drive, everthing works.

 

I have no problems with A03 and my Seagate 7200.4 500GB (first bay) and SuperTalent SSD 128GB (second bay). I use AHCI.

 

I just use 2 seagate harddrive make raid, and it works! very strange, seems like BIOS a03 has no problem for SSD or 2 hard drives.

 

Got the ram and ssd installed last night, and finally got the Intel 6300 drivers downloaded and installed on the machine. No doubt it's quick, and I'm loving it.

Except for one thing.

We've probably all had our share of dead pixels in our past, I'm certainly no exception. But Once I started dealing with things in/with something other than dark backgrounds it became readily apparent that there's a group of black pixels stuck off, has to be at least 4 or more bunched together since it looks like a jagged spot, on the middle left side of the display. At first I genuinely thought it was a piece of debris stuck under the edge to edge glass because it was so big.

Haven't had to personally deal with complete care/business care in awhile, but is it safe to assume that they'll be able to come check this out and replace the display onsite a la everything else they do? Anyone done this already? Anyone with a Covet (not sure if this would incur a longer wait for any reason)?

I know some companies would write off dead pixels as a "characteristic of the product". I'm not expecting this from Dell by any means, but there's no way I'll let this issue go unfixed. And better to get the ball rolling while the return period's still available.

Thanks guys.

 

Standby for disregard.

Have an appointment set up for Monday to replace the display. Which means a full weekend of having fun getting things set up on this beast.

 

Dell overnighted me a 6300 (no disk). I installed it and booted up. Win7 didn't ask for anything. I downloaded the 6300 utility (w/ driver v. 13.0.0.107) from Dell. After installation, I cannot add the wireless service. After Win tries to diagnose, it says its a driver problem. So, I went to Intel's site and downloaded its 6300 utility (w/ driver v.13.1.1.1). Trashed the first one, installed the second and got the same error.

Any idea?

Thanks

 

On a fresh install of win7 64 ultimate this morning, I dloaded the same driver from Intel's site (2/26/2010 13.​1.​1.​1 64-​Bit) to a usb key and ran it from there on my 6500 successfully. Installed and found access points off the bat without a reboot even.

Maybe removing the device via the device manager completely and letting it get re-detected would help?