Posts by Lloyds

Thanks for the responses. I obviously want to do this the right way so I'll start from scratch. Unfortunately the Dell support person says my only option for reinstalling is to use a Windows OEM CD and Dell application CD that he will...

I just installed a new SSD and formatted it with a single partition. I'd like to move (clone) my original HDD and make the new SSD my boot disk with the OS and programs installed. But I'm not exactly sure how to do this. Disk 1 (the...

I just purchased a Precision M6500 with a large capacity, traditional hard drive. Frankly I just didn't spend a lot of time researching SSD and thought that the benefit was mainly stability. Now I'm reading that there's a pretty decent...

Are there any best practices in terms of tweaking and optimizing a Dell Precision M6500? I'm thinking along the lines of some of the bloatware that might be loaded. In the past I recall the suggestion of doing a full re-format,...

I"m using the NBF MobileForce XP 174.31 driver with a Precision M6300 with a Quadro FX 1600M video card. The notebook is docked and using an external Dell 2005FPW monitor. I went through the instructions to properly remove the...

I"m using the driver with a Precision M6300 with a Quadro FX 1600M video card. The notebook is docked and using an external Dell 2005FPW monitor. I went through the instructions to properly remove the old driver and installed the...

Does anyone have any experience using I8kfanGUI with a Precision M6300? If so, I'd appreciate some insight as to settings and offsets. Thanks

Two other points: 1) I was able to integrate the AHCI drivers through Nlite. There is information on their website specifically related to re-installing Windows on this type of drive. No issues. 2) When I was re-installing Windows I,...

Grrr. Honestly if I new it would be this much of a pain I simply wouldn't have bothered doing a fresh install. There are two major omissions from the original post that relate to my M6300: 1) You simply cannot install the modem and...

Quote: For the newer (Inspiron 1720, XPS M1730, Precision M6300) model laptops, you MUST DISABLE AHCI (change the setting from AHCI --> ATA) in the BIOS in order to proceed with installation of the Operating System without...