Precision M4400 Owner's Lounge

yep, my stats are almost identical to yours. except i only have 2 cores. no problems with A11.

need to reinstall the other drivers etc, especially the audio driver has really been giving me grief

 

Hmm you seem to be right about A11. I'm trying it again now and so far temps are fine, they even seem around 2c lower then before
I have to say that when i ran A11 before the thing i noticed was that the fans went on a lot more often and that made me switch back...without any extensive testing really. I'll get back with the results but so far it looks good indeed...thx

and...if you could find the time to do a clean install i'd really recommend it. Now that most stuff is figured out you can very easily set it up the way it should be from the start so the system will have the least amount of installing/uninstalling drivers etc. done to it and when it's all set make a backup

edit: DPC latency has gotten a bit worse, it used to be around 600-700, now every 3rd/4th bar is around 1200 and i did get a red spike at 16000 but that may just be a single one

 

In A11 mines idles at 49 CPU and 56 GPU.

 

ok...update 2

temps are fine, they seem a bit lower even then with A02

however, during gaming the game froze for a bit before it went on again, the fps only went down for a second and after the hickup it went on like nothing happened. I had dpc latency checker running in the background and it hit 7.711.099!! I've never seen this before and i never had the game skip or freeze in the older BIOS...the dpc checker kept giving all yellow/red bars untill the GPU went to lower clock about a minute after i quit the game.
I'll see if this happens more often

idle temps here:
24-27c on CPU
48 on GPU
39 on HDD

this is while writing this within minutes after the gaming session and it's not really idling but not doing anything heavy either.....to get real idle temps i would leave to comp for half an hour and then check.

update again:

Now it's getting weird. Like i said i get yellow spikes every 3rd or 4th bar, no red spikes any more. So i thought it might even get better if i took out the DVD again...no change. So maybe it's the eSATA ext. HDD i have hooked up?
hmmm...i unhook that and i get red bars all over around 68000!! So having the eSATA port in-use actually makes the latency smoother!?!? That's a first afaik!! When i remove it through "safely remove hardware" it doesn't make any difference when it unloads, only when i pull the plug the red bars appear....they don't stop either Weird stuff, and something that didn't happen in A02

 

Chances are, no. Dell doesn't do that on their business machines in general.

However I think most people here end up wiping them and doing a clean install anyway. I did that because I wanted to get install media for both XP and Vista. The only way to get both OSes is to tell them you want XP pre-installed, even if you actually want Vista

 

Hey does anyone have any experience using the display port? I have tried display port to HDMI, and DVI with no monitor or TV being able to be detected.

 

I use the display port with no problem. I know this is kinda obvious but did you enable the second display in the Nvidia control panel?

 

I sure tried to it seems like it can't detect the second monitor. Basicaly it gives me the option to rigorously detect another monitor and the results come up with no display detected. If i use the vga everything works like magic.

 

Have you tried Fn + F8 repeatedly?

 

I tried pressing it a couple times, then hammering it.. It says LCD only, and presentation mode is off. If i go into the Windows Mobility Center and turn presentation mode on it still says the same.