Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

For me the CHKDSK left a drive on the RAID volume with an error. You have the option to clear it, which I did.
I ran it becauase it kept BDS'ing. More of this has to do with the drivers.
Because of the RAID I don't think you wont to run certain things that may look to the volume as an error. When in factit is the scheme Intel Matrix Storage has set. So not running Defrag or the like makes since.

I am suprised the M6400 says it has been certified for all the 3D apps.
There seems to be Maya problems and I can't get Max to render a heavy render without the screen going entirely white. No matter what Vid driver is set. i.e. OpenGL, Maxtreme, or DirectX 9 or 10.

I thought about sending it back.

For a 5000+ laptop it should run smooth as silk,or thereabouts, but as the end user, we have to wait if the computer will straighten out when the drivers do and lose the 30 day send back policy and 5000+ down the drain.

It plays games better than it runs 3D apps. Yet even then it has been freezing.

It is a nice laptop. The nicest. I expect with the advancements in technology coming out at a faster and faster rate almost growing at exponential factors, both the manufacturerand the end user will suffer. Not being able to keep up with building the newest computers fast enough, and software and hardware keeping up and thus the drivers.

I guess we will see.

 

Re the chkdsk issue - you could always flag the drive as dirty. This has the same effect as running a chkdsk but is initiated by a different process on boot - this might get round the drive being in use.

At a cmd prompt:

fsutil dirty set c:

 

cheers!
It made me read it. haha

then I was like "this really isnt THAT bad".

Then I escaped from the web.

wish you luck.

 

Was the Vista Ultimate 64 SP2 a single update?
Or many small ones adding up to SP2?

Thanks.

 

Unused additional notebook battery. Store it charged or uncharged?

 

i just downloaded the SP2 beta from here :-

X64
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=361D0CA3-4B2C-4F1C-8B3E-DE376FDB1DE8&displaylang=en


x86

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dca54ecc-362a-4b4d-b62b-22780e839a7e&DisplayLang=en

 

According to what I've read, store it at half to 80% charge or so in an environment that isn't too warm. There might be ways to extend it further. Wish I had links because it actually explained why and gave ideals... Oh well.

If you're storing it seriously long-term google around for Li-Ion or Lithium or Lithium Ion; if the battery is relatively recent (last 5 years) that's probably what it is.

Unfortunately Li-Ion batteries degrade with time and not with charge cycles, vs. their predecessors.

 

I haven't run into this myself but this might help:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=790

It's a TR article on chkdisk bugs in vista and one section is about it failing to run.

 

Thanks! Sure wish I knew what that last darn Unknown Device is. It makes me feel like I've spilled spaghetti on my perfect white tuxedo.

 

That's a great link, thanks! However, with a half a dozen startup drivers that weren't starting up properly anyway, I think I'm better off having did what did (reload Vista from scratch). Now my boot logs are clean.