Problems with the Precision M4400 and the Nvidia quadro 770M

Out of curiosity, what BIOS revision are you running on your M4400? BIOS A27 appears to have come out 18th April, in the release notes (http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails/DriverFileFormats?driverID=YDD6X) it states under fixes:

NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M Video BIOS version 62.94.8F.00.01

I tried to download from the link on that page and got file not found, I ended up finding it here:

http://ftp1.us.dell.com/FOLDER00196891M/1/M4400A27.exe

I'm having the exact same problem as you, I'll be applying this BIOS tonight to see if it fixes the problem & will post back my results.

Scrap that, I'm already running A27. The more I think about this the more I'm leaning towards the update to A27 being the culprit.

Just disabled Windows AERO and installed the A11_R288480.exe driver from the Dell site:

www.dell.com/.../DriverFileFormats

So far the BSOD's have stopped.

Hello,

I have the same problem M4400 FX770 A27 BIOS bluescreen.

I made some experiments with powermizer switch and gpu-z 0.5.9

Thats what I found out:

1. Bluescreen only if powermizer funktion is activated (Voltage is automtically reduced to 0.89V)

2. System ist absolutely stable if powermizer is switched off (Voltage always 1.05V) 

The bluecreen always comes up when the FX770 witches from the lowest power mode to the mid-power mode.

Conclusion: the 0.89 Volts in the mid-power mode is not sufficient for a stable system.

So Dell has to create a new VIDEO-BIOS-Update, which includes a slightly higher voltage for the mid-power mode of the fx770.

I think a Voltage 0.95V for dteh mid-power-state should solve the problem for all here with a unstable FX770.

I hope Dell will read and prove my infomation and will offer a M4400-Bios update  for all M4400-victims with an unstable mid-power mode

I experimented with two other parameters:

1. unchecking vt-x.option in the BIOS (a hint from somewhere else)

2. Installing 9600M GT drivers instead of the original.

Since that I haven't discovered any bluescreen  

Sadly this problem persists in Windows 8 x64 MSDN (Build 9200) with the newest official NVIDIA Drivers (302.80 Beta) as well as the A27 BIOS with the latest official Quatro FX 770 BIOS from DELL (62.94.8F.00.01).

Did you flash an 9600M GT BIOS to use the 9600M GT Driver? At least in Windows 8 it's not possible to install those drivers even when manualy trying to load them after deselecting "only compatible hardware". It's telling me that those drivers are incompatible for this OS.

The old drivers aren't working in Windows 8 anymore  (even thought they are made for Windows 7 x64) .
That 's why you cannot run Windows 8 stable at all.

I seriously expect a solution to this as there isn't any workaround left.

BSOD on Windows 8 occurs everytime you come back from standby - shows screen for 2 seconds, then turns black and after that a BSOD will appear.

Anybody get this to work with Windows 7 64bit?  I have two M4400's I'm trying to reimage and both are giving me Blue Screens.  One is at BIOS A27 and the other still at A16.

Does anyone have an install sequence that works for Windows 7?

Just following up on the post by Charlybravo . It appears that Powermizer switch is a product developed to override the nvidia built-in power management solution called Powermizer, I found a description and the product on the following forum: http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/273276-powermizer-switch-get-most-out-your-video-card.html

The actual download is here:

http://www.box.net/shared/v7jpoateoq

I'm downloading the 9600M GT driver now (its gigantic at 204MB).  I'm a litle skeptical that will work but if I can't get past this by disabling Powermizer then I'll try this driver and disable the virtualization extensions in the BIOS.

With a modest amount of fiddling I was able to get PowerMizer to work (note: make sure you turn UAC off to use this product).  I was able to turn off PowerMizer and I have now been able to launch IE and watch some videos without a BSOD).  I'm off to try World of Warcraft and run some Furmarks test and will update once I get some more info.

I am so glad to see that someone else is experiencing this problem. I just did a fresh install of Win 7 Home Premium on an 80GB partition.  I have updated everything via MS Windows Update and also updated all Dell recommended drivers including A27.

The minute I enable the Quadro card using the recommended nVidia driver I get a BSOD after a minute or two.  I can run all day long in Safe mode and with the generic MS video driver.

I really like this machine but this is the flakiest card I've seen, I've had it replaced once already.  I'm going to try the voltage suggestion mentioned previously (although I'm surprised that a computer targeted to CAD development requires undervolting).

This worked for me.  Thanks.