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October 19th, 2004 23:00
600m Bios Problems still...
I was very dissappointed to find that after 10 months since I first encountered the issue with the 600m and any bios after A06 with gaming/any intensive program that at bios A14 it is STILL NOT FIXED. I thought by now this major issue would be fixed but nope, tried out A14 and found it to be even worse than before, my system even swtiched to reduced speeds while windows was booting. For those of you that don't know, the 600m and any bios after A06 causes significant errors in speed step causing random switches and slow downs while using the computer for any intensive application. I was even more shocked to find that dell removed all previous bios versions from their website (Thanks BayWolf for still hosting them, your a life saver!).
Heres another thread talking about it for those interested...or not...
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_bios&message.id=25974&query.id=62647#M25974
Just curious if anyone has found any real fix to the problem other than downgrading to A06. I haven't been able to find anything. Also WHY DOESNT DELL FIX THIS?!
Heres another thread talking about it for those interested...or not...
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_bios&message.id=25974&query.id=62647#M25974
Just curious if anyone has found any real fix to the problem other than downgrading to A06. I haven't been able to find anything. Also WHY DOESNT DELL FIX THIS?!
- Two weeks ago I received my 600m with the A14 BIOS already loaded on it. I am having the similar issues. The worst part is even when AC adaptor is hooked up and the battery is completely charged, the processor wants to stay stuck at 500 MHz! Only a reboot fixes this problem. I was wondering if there is any way to control the processor throttling manually on Win XP. That way (atleast while hooked to the AC adaptor) we can set it to high always. There is a BIOS option to disable stepping but that leaves the processor stuck at the lowest performance.For those who are running A06: What functionality is lost from A14 thru A06?From what I read in the forums I have found this to be a nagging problem for quite some time. Its time Dell got around to addressing it. Atleast provide us a workaround while you fix it!Can the moderator of this forum please take this matter up? It would be much appreciated.
- This is a know problem affecting the 600m. After BIOS A06 Dell added code to check to see if the temperature of the RAM exceeded some preset number and if it did, the system automatically slowed down the processor and the RAM.
The problem with this is that when gaming (especially with the 64MB video card), the RAM almost always exceeds this value after a very short time period (especailly if you have 2 DIMMS). Therefore the system is effectively useless for gaming.
Basically, Dell shipped a laptop with inadequate cooling and used a software bandaid to disguise the problem.
They have evidenced no interest in fixing this and as far as I know haven't even addressed it publically.
Hope that helps.
Pan - I had the same problem with computer almost freezing while playing after 10-15mn...
I was using BIOS A11, I downgraded to A06 and everything is working fine now!
Thanks a lot for all this information!
And the most important : Thanks BayWolf for the BIOS A06!!!
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Posted October 21st, 2004 02:00