New M6500 Discussion Thread

It's still A02 for RHEL. None of the versions are showing up here..

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which I think is lame for enterprise hardware especially.

 

Is there any way to keep keyboard backlighting on without it timing out? BIOS options are effectively useless as far as permanent settings. Fn->Right Arrow has three settings consisting of Off, On, and On from what I can tell. Though on here means "turn off in a few seconds".


Has anyone else tried using the multitouch capability of the synaptics touchpad? Anyone else as horribly underwhelemed as I am (been using a giant touchpad enabled MBP for ~4 years now)?

 

You could add your laptop configuration in your signature like most others do. So people with and without similar problems can compare with their config. Have a look at the menu above the posts and click on "User CP". From there you can edit your profile.

The i7-820QM doesn't seem to be the problem. I have it with no A03 problems. The disk type doesn't seem important as well. Maybe the new USB3 board? Maybe bluetooth (I don't have that). Maybe WLAN (I have dell 1510). Hard to tell with so many pieces...

 

A little question. is Adobe going to support our NVIDIA quadro 3800M for the Mercury playback in Adobe CS5 production premium? I know they said they will upgrade the cards supported but how is that at now. Are they saying something new? Thank you

 

As I said, i think its depends on how do you set your sata, AHCI or RAID or ATA? I dont think there is any problem of CPU. I just feel sad maybe I dont need to change my motherboard and just put another hard drive, set to RAID and it will work. But you still need to reinstall your whole system. There are 3 people (included me) got the same problem. Yesterday, when the engineer changed the board, he realised dell gave me a refurbish with someones service tag board (from Germany), and he was asked to updated the latest bios version A03 and input my service tag, however the system was crashed again. He need to come back again to replace another board.

After he left, I just tried to use two hard drive to test it and everthing is fine with A03. So if some one got the same problem as me, 1st thing just change your sata to ata, and go into your system back up any files you want then do a clean install and wait for a04 to fix the bug. Or if you got SSD or another hard drive, just replace it or add it. But you still need to reinstall the whole system. I hope my experience can help !

 

Thanks - I updated my sig.

I put everything in except DVD which I have to check (its the slot load version but I don't recall which one and need to boot up to check). I just received my laptop 2 days ago so it should have USB 3.0.

I will be wiping it for Win 7 / 64 after I add another 4 gb of ram - just have to figure out how to get to the slots.

Matt

 

Btw, I was trying to install ControlPoint system manager so I could install the Adobe RGB color profile and I got an incompatible processor message.

Anyone else have this issue? Or is there any other way of installing the Adobe color profile for the 17 inch RGB LED?

From what i understand you don't reap all the benefits of the RGB LED unless you install this profile and change gamma to 1.8.

Thank you
Matt

 

@travisghansen:
Which Distribution and kernel are you running? And which optical drive do you have installed?

concerning your BIOS issue:
A telephone supporter from Dell told me that the Windows BIOS updates should work under FreeDOS. But I haven't tried by myself.

 

Officially part of the M6500 family! Original eta was one month, yet got it in less than 3 weeks.

Just started to check it out, before installing W7: noticed the sata setting is set for RAID. With only one drive, I would have expected AHCI. Plan to add the Intel X25 as a system drive, and move the other drive as data. Does the sata setting make any difference between RAID and AHCI (not planning to have a raid setup)?

Tony

 

There is nothing wrong with your laptop. Today I upgraded my M6500 bios to A03 and notced it won't boot anymore. Blue screen after a while; and keeps on rebooting itself.

Then I restored the Windows 7 to a few days earlier stae and it booted OK. I had updated Intel Rapid Storage Technology (AHCI) to Intel_Rapid-Storage-Technolo_A04_R264763 yesterday. So when I restored the system to a time before that update; there was no problem.

Dell M6500 bios A03 is not compatible with AHCI A04 driver. I reinstalled AHCI A04 and once again; my M6500 started to crash during bootup.

Now I'm running my M6500 (Bios A03) with AHCI ver. 03, and there are no problems.

I'll have to wait for Dell to fix this incompatibility issue.