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My new Precision M4300 thinks its a Latitude D830?!

post #1 of 2
4/28/09 at 12:39pm
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Hello,
I just got a new Dell Precision M4300 here in Israel (refurbished, not directly from Dell) with the following configuration:

CPU: Core 2 Extreme X9000
LCD: 15.4" WUXGA
Graphics: Quadro NVS 140M (apparently)
HDD: 160GB SATA 7200RPM

My question is as follows:

It in fact says Precision M4300 on the front of the laptop near the keyboard,
But when I turn it on it identifies itself as a Latitude D830.

I bought the laptop thinking I was getting a Quadro FX360M (it is CAD certified which is important to me as I work with their program).

What is going on? was I fooled in some way?

If I apply the latest M4300 BIOS update will it change the names of the laptop model and the graphics card?

Thanks!
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post #2 of 2
4/29/09 at 1:16am
hehe copy and paste,I'll do the same.

The gut's between the M4300 and D830 should be the same,was with the M65/D820 and D610/M20,the only difference is the bios,which you need to get dell or the shop to give you the dos command line instruction to change the bios from one to the other using floppy drive.
You won't be able to just flash the M4300 bios normally because as far as the laptop is concerned,it's a D830,and flashing the M4300 bios is the wrong one and will just come up with the warning that you are trying to flash the wrong bios.

I knew a guy that had his motherboard replaced in a D610,when it came back,it was an M20,dell supplied the cmnd line to change it to the correct bios and ID.

Or....you could just get the shop to sort it out [probably the best,since they sold you a M4300],I know for a fact the quadro NVS120m didn't have the same openGL extension's as the quadro FX350m because I tried solidwork's on a D820 and the realtime material rendering wouldn't work and was greyed out just like it does with any consumer GPU's.....so I would be wanting what I paid for if I were you.
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