Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

Wouldn't 'dampen' my spirits. Besides the standard upgrades the only difference I know of is the orange case. Which looks cool enough to keep my spirits happy and so far the case color is the only difference I've found between the Covet and the silver. Expensive color job but looks cool. I'd actually rather have the x9100 instead of the quad core but I can certainly live with it. I just couldn't find a single thing about it's appearance that suggested it wasn't new. Was my first time buying 'refurbished' and I've been very surprised so far.

And for anyone that cares 18KGUI works fine with 32 bit XP on my Covet colored 6400. I believe the GPU temp. reads low by 10 to 15% farenheit comparing it to a couple of other temp. readers but it's still in the cool range. And it recogonizes all four cores which is surprising since it hasn't been updated since the M90. But I still think it's the best Dell temp. control program out there.

And it wasn't a fluke that the color wasn't listed. I watched the site daily for months and any that weren't listed as Silver had the Covet standard stuff. And if you looked at the detailed description the Brnt Orng. or something clearly meaning orange is in the display case description or the base. I just found it odd that if you asked for the color burnt orange it always said no even when the description said yes.

 

Well...did a complete re-install last night.
And still intermittently getting a blank screen. Which is really a BSOD.
I left it for about 5 mins and eventually the system rebooted and said "blue screen of death error" and blamed the nvidia driver.

I'm using the official dell one's at present but had also tried one of the modded drivers.

However issue is intermittent and only happends during gaming maybe every 2nd day.
So what driver are gamers using on this system?

 

airblazer are you still playing wow and getting crashes i mentioned before ive played a slew of games with no issues, i just recently upgraded to the latest driver - for nvidia we have the same setup except for the harddrives, now my system did sheet the bed once, which i think had something to with my antivirus software, - have you tried reducing your graphic quality output during gameplay, ive noticed in some games i just cannot run the game at full graphics mode. crysis 2 is good example theres a gamer mode and one more mode after that i think called game enthusiast mode..m6400 doesnt run to fast with that mode... also are all your drivers up to date, and has there been any patches for the current game you are playing, it happens quite a lot with games.

 

your screen only goes black/blue screen when you play games, not for movies or walking away from the computer for a couple of hours?

are you playing on a desk, (not a bed or carpet)? could it be overheating?

i did have my screen blue screen on a train watching a movie 3x - but not sure if was the train shaking/nvidia driver or the crappy movie version.

 

nope..it's on a flat table..
Now I played tongiht for about 3 hours solid of Grid/COD4 with driver 185.66.
Remember one guy saying this resolved similiar BSOD issues.
But will need another few nights of gaming before I'm happy.

 

Appreciated.

 

The brick is gone
Here a pic of the new slim M6400 power adapter. It has even more power (240W) so it's probably suited for the M6400 and the XPS M1730 (SLI GPUs).

 

Wish they had the new adapter up on the US website as a separate purchase. I could never find the brick on the US site either for that matter.

 

wow, nice! dont know how many ppl turned away from xps m1730 and m6400 becuz of ridiculous size & weight of that pwoer brick, i know im one of those who sold m1730 simply becuz of getting sick of its weight.
any details on dimension and weight of this "slimmy", is it "the real slim"?

 

Well, I'm giving up my M6400 for a HP Pavillion dv2. I never used the thing so I'm giving it to another employee that will actually get good use out of it. It's been a pleasure guys. I must say, if I used the M6400 like it was designed, I wouldn't let it out of my sight.