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Upgrading Dell Precision M6300

post #1 of 12
9/18/11 at 1:46pm
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I have a well cared for M6300 and rather than replacing it, I plan to upgrade it. I have purchased the following components:

T9300 processor to replace T7500

 

2x4GB DDR 2 PC2-6400 800MHz RAM

 

500GB Travelstar 7200rpm SATA 3 drive

 

Windows Ultimate operating system (not upgrade-from Yoda on eBay;  any relation??). Present system is Windows XP Professional

 

Questions, oh GURUS!

 

1.  Cannot upgrade Dell BIOS beyond A13- does not support hardware virtualization.  How to get around this??

2.  Will BIOS automatically recognize hard drive/RAM/new processor?

 

May have further questions as project evolves.  Computer software issues annoy me, but I am OK with hardware.  Have an Extra class ham license and I'm an orthopaedic surgeon so I'm pretty good with "tinkering", but please bear with my ignorance.  Thank you for your help in advance.

 

orthodoct

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post #2 of 12
9/18/11 at 2:35pm
2) yes

1) not so sure myself

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post #3 of 12
9/18/11 at 2:55pm
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Is there any problem replacing a SATA 5400rpm hard drive with a SATA3 7200?

Thank you, qhn. Owe you some free bone or high power AM vacuum tube advice.

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post #4 of 12
9/18/11 at 4:13pm
No, but you won't take full advantage of what the SATA 3 offers. Info is free wink.gif

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post #5 of 12
9/18/11 at 4:24pm
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Thanks.

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post #6 of 12
9/18/11 at 4:42pm
No problem - regarding VM on the machine - do you know for sure that it cannot support it?

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post #7 of 12
9/18/11 at 5:15pm
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I have been throught the BIOS with a fine toothed comb and there is no place to enable hardware virtualization. Simply is not listed as an option. The original processor is an Intel T7500 Core2@ 800MHz. The processor could support it, but  I think that the problem is that the latest BIOS version supplied by Dell was released and abandoned before Windows 7 (A13).  Any way around that or is my reasoning flawed?

 

Thanks!

Ty

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post #8 of 12
9/18/11 at 5:57pm
I combed all over the place and I must resign to the fact that you are right about VT on this model - too bad that Dell taunted the possibility using the Intel processor performance rather than its own BIOS thumbdown.gif: Too bad really

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post #9 of 12
7/29/12 at 3:14pm

Works fine for me

Quote:
Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
    Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
    Product Name: Precision M6300                 
    Version: Not Specified
    Serial Number: XXXXXXX
    UUID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    Wake-up Type: Power Switch
    SKU Number: Not Specified
    Family:
Quote:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 23
model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T9500  @ 2.60GHz
stepping    : 6
microcode    : 0x60f
cpu MHz        : 800.000
cache size    : 6144 KB
physical id    : 0
siblings    : 2
core id        : 0
cpu cores    : 2
apicid        : 0
initial apicid    : 0
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 10
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 lahf_lm ida dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips    : 5187.71
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management
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post #10 of 12
7/30/12 at 1:36am
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Originally Posted by Weedy View Post

Works fine for me

so the t9500 works for sure, and not the t9300?

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post #11 of 12
7/30/12 at 2:35pm

http://ark.intel.com/products/33917/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-T9300-%286M-Cache-2_50-GHz-800-MHz-FSB%29

 

The T9300 is probably just a less stable T9500 so it was sold clocked lower. You have the SAME stats as mine except the clock speed. Well the bus ratio, and thus the clock speed.

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post #12 of 12
7/30/12 at 2:37pm
Brilliant ... good to know smile.gif

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