**OFFICIAL** Dell XPS M1730 Owner's Lounge, *Part 4*

Your lucky as mostly this laptop gets many failures.

I'm currently unable to use my laptop.I'll tell you my drivers and other info soon.This may be the cause of drives.But the score is too low except your Graphic's score.Which sounds a bit right.

 

Uff ok bro, i'll waiting then.. You're right, the video card is ok, because is a single 8700M GT, not SLI.

Thanks!

 

Could you tell me what drivers exactly do you have??

 

Make sure your CPU isn't downclocking. There are several guide for using ThrottleStop to run the CPU at faster speeds for gains.

For example, most X9000 users go upto 3.8, even 4ghz for performance.

A typical Core2Duo CPU gets an extra 200 Mhz, which helps.

 

Hey guys just passing by to say hi
It's amazing to see that youre still rocking the scene with the awesome m1730.
I kinda miss those times going nuts with sli profiles and heavy overclock to push the system to the limits.
Keep up the good work! And a big cheer to everyone such Magnus, Kade, Eleron and others!

 

Hi there King
Is there any chance to a just another one modded inf to latest NV drivers to an old good XP from You ? ( I still "love" XP - all I need is current sli profiles ) It would be a really big deal to me
All the best

 

Hi everyone, Iv'e just bought a xps m1730 and it's running a bit slow, just tried call of duty mw2 and it's really jurky.

I have a T8100 2.1 duo, 2gb ram, 250gb hdd, 8800m gtx.

What would I need to upgrade, and how would I start.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Steve

 

I have one too but I hate to say there days of maxed modern gaming have come to an end. I can't even play bf3 on low. Only upgrade for u you would be the x9000 processor and 9800gtx but it's not really worth it. We are locked into a dead end

 

Which Windows you are using? Which Nvidia drivers you have?

 

vista home premiuim 64 bit,

I'm sorry how do I find about the driver details.

What is the maximum ram I can put in too.

Can I put in a x9000 without altering the motherboard.

 

I'm pretty sure that you have older drivers.Download the latest drivers from here.

NVIDIA DRIVERS 295.73 WHQL

Also, Windows 7 is much better than Vista.However, you can check the performance after installing new drivers.

For X9000, as far as I know you can just fit it to your m1730 and you don't need a new motherboard.But as I don't have X9000, I'm not sure about it.

Max amount of Ram is 4Gb DDR2.

 

An X9000 will work on any M1730.

A BIOS update does wonders too.

The problem is definitely that T8100, which is slow. An X9000 goes nicely upto 4 GHz, 3.8 GHz being the sweet spot for most. Nowadays you can find one for 250-300$ or less.

 

Thanks guys for the quick replys, I think I will get the x9000 and 4gb ram first.

 

Hi guys,
i need help.

here are my spec M1730
CPU: T9300 @ 250ghz 2.50ghz
ram: 4gb
os : win 7 32bit
hd: 500gig
video: 8700m gt SLI 256mbX2 = 512mb
driver : 295.73 nvidia
directx: 11
flash : 11.2.22.160
activeX: 11.2.202.221
BIOS: A10 (they say A11 make the fan go wild..)

and all i want to do is play some Starcraft 2
i enable and did a clean install of the driver
when i play i get like 5 FPS

about a 3 month ago i was getting 45FPS at MEDium
and i saw on youtube guyz playing skyrim an stuff

my question what are the driver that i need ?

please help me thanks

 

Grettings man, my experince: my windows index was 2.4, i don't know what happen but i use the thorrtlestop software, you can use your processor at full speed (now at 2.7 ghz alll day) , i can play starcraft 2 at max graphics with single nvidia 8700m gt. please ready this throttlestop http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...arket-upgrades/531329-throttlestop-guide.html

 

Wow. 4 years of owning a M1730 and I only now find this thread.

To sum up my XPS experience:

I started with:
T7500 2.2 Core2Duo CPU
4gbs Ram
8700M GT SLI

Now:
x9000 2.8 Core2Xtreme XPU (Clocked at 3.4ghz, I can get 3.6 stable but didn`t like heat)
9800M GTX SLI

My list of return to depots!

Video Card
Video Card
Hard Drive
Battery & Power Adapter
Motherboard, Battery & Power Adapter
Video Card
Motherboard & Video Card.

All in all tho, its been a hell of a trip for a computer that cost me just short of 5k. I definitely learnt my lesson about shiny gaming laptops from dell tho!

 

Will never forgive Dell for this line of laptops.

Nothing but trouble.

 

I'm curious, has anyone tried to do a fan replacement/upgrade on these units? I had mine apart a few weeks ago to re-paste them and noticed that these fans are only putting out 9 CFM, at least thats what's printed on the side of them. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to do a fan swap with something that pushes a little more air at the same draw and revolutions. Any thoughts?

 

Mine has been completely trouble-free. I upgraded to Windows 7 64-bit and added an OCZ Agilty II SSD and plugged it into my 48" plasma TV to use as an HTPC. I have a bluetooth keyboard, mouse, and controller and still play Skyrim and World of Tanks on it. I've been waiting for some kind of catastrophic failure for years but it just keeps humming along...

 

Which Bios version are you using?

Any one other using A11 bios and haven't experienced any Fan failure? Or experienced it?
A11 makes the fan wild.

 

Funny you just found this thread. Just installed Win7 on my M1730 after not using it for a long time, and it's like breathing new life into a beast. Decided to check out the forums and am surprised to find this thread still going. +1

 

Does anyone know what the largest size hard drive that can be installed on the 1730 is? Also are these 9.5mm?

 

Just wanted to add that the part I've highlighted in bold is actually a very important and worthwhile solution with regards to the M1730 and its GPU troubles. Had Dell put such a concept in place, the M1730 ranks wouldn't be as thin as they are today. . . neither would some of us be on our Alienware laptops, but let's not dwell on the perks. Heh.

 

hello there...

I just got some weird stuff going on with my m1730...
my GPU temperature just going up slowly until it reach aroun 95-105 degree celsius... and u know what that mean. GPU-Z shows that fans are on 100% but u hear nothing or they spin very slow. However the fans are ok and not broken or anything because if I go to bios and overclock the CPU to 3.4 then all the fans (even the graphics ones) are spinning like they should on 100% and GPU sits at around 50 something degree celsius when idle (which is normal)...

anybody experienced something similar?
I suspect the new nvidia drivers as there have been 2 new drivers recently (296.10 the last ones) which I both installed... so now I'm downloading the older ones to see if it's going to help.. for now I have to run with all fans spinning like crazy.. which is not a problem but most of the times I just browsing or want to watch a movie and having all of them blasting like that is unwanted.

btw I have 9800m gtx sli 2GB and x7900 cpu (A10 bios)

 

btw max ram for m1730 is 8GB as I did that upgrade myself and it runs just fine

 

I have same problem but a bit safe.Fan speed is always 100%.But while gaming I can hear the fan sound and max temp is 64-65C.When idle the temp goes to 74C and I hear no fan sound.However, at 74C I can hear the sound again and it takes the temp back to 68C and then likely fan stops again.The temp goes to 74C again and then fan spins again to take it back.This process continues..... Kinda funny?

 

can any one else confirm this before i buy the 4gb

 

Same here 8GB and working great.

 

do i need windows 7 for the 8gb, im only asking as i only have windows vista 64 bit.

 

You will require a 64bit OS.Windows 7 64bit or Windows Vista 64bit

 

I'm using A11.

 

And I use it. No problem so far ...

 

Same here. With no problems.

 

Hello,

I just replaced my 8700m GT's with what the seller claims to be '2GB Video Card 9800 GTX SLI'. However, as far as I can check, it appears to be a '1 GB 9800 GTM SLI'.

Does anyone know how I can check this?

Grtz

 

9800m GTX SLI are two cards working together in SLI.Each card has 1Gb memory.However, in SLI the memory of second is disabled and only 1Gb is available for games.But both cards work together to run the game and you get better performance.

If you want to make it sure then go to Bios and check the video memory there you will see "2Gb".

 

In BIOS it states 1GB of video memory.
Is there any way to check if it is indeed the GTX? (should have a physx build in I read somewhere...)

Grtz

 

Hello guys again, is this the right memory and processor i need to buy, just wanted to ask the experts before i commit.

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i am in the uk and therefor using a uk ebay. lol.

 

Check the Card name in Bios or from Windows using Dxdiag.exe

 

in Dxdiag I find:

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

in BIOS and system information and Nvidia control panel I find the same.


Took the card back out and checked the Dell part number, it IS a 9800M GT, and not the GTX I want => return to seller.


Grtz

 

Hello,
I have a dell m1730 and the touchpad drives me nuts, all the advice on the net is about vista machines and mine is a win7 ultimate machine.
There are no drivers from dell for win7, and no little icons anywhere to turn it off and no buttons either.
Under the mouse icon in the control panel, it is for the wireless mouse only and the disable ps/2 is blanked out, so i have no control over it at all.
It is hard to even write a small email without it jumping to another place or deleting what i have typed.
Does anyone know how to stop this darn thing from working?

 

PHP:

Any input before Monday please as I wish to buy then, can I put these two in my xps straight away

Thanks

 

The Vista driver works fine for me.

 

i tried to load the driver but it wont recognize the OS, there is nothing wrong with the OS or anything else, if you have a vista driver that works for you then can you give me a link that i can get it from please

 

It says "Could not find OS specific setup program"

 

Sorry, I don't know.Only a person who himself did this can tell you.

 

Yes them are both top supported for this computer.

 

Hi everyone, i have fixed the problem.

Apparently the Dell M1730 has a Synaptics touch pad, so i downloaded the latest driver from Synaptics the link below

Drivers | Synaptics

I downloaded the driver for win7 64bit

Now i have full control of the touch pad and it is turned OFF

So anyone out there frustrated by their touch pad your problem is now solved.

I hope this helps you

 

Thank you!
I will try the driver when I get home and see if they are better then Dell drivers.

 

Please let me know what you think

 

Wow that ram is pricy.