Problems with the Precision M4400 and the Nvidia quadro 770M

Any results? I have a customer with simular issues.

So far no BSOD after turning off Powermizer.  It appears this is the right fix, thanks for recommending this Charlybravo.

So what exactly did everyone do?

I went in and disabled the virtualization in the BIOS, and downloaded the GT driver but I am still blue screening.

I am A27 BIOS as well. Can someone post a link for the 9600 driver I was having trouble finding it perhaps I downloaded the wrong one. 

Do I also need to turn powermizer off along with these steps?

For me it was all about disabling powermizer... no BSODs after turning it off (I couldn't even load a dialog box in Windows before I BSODed before that).  I'm running fully patched Win7 Home Premium 64 and nVidia driver 301.42.  

Okay so this is the latest driver for the 770m.

www.nvidia.com/.../quadro-notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-305.93-whql-driver.html

Now just so I am making sure I am not getting confused, I am not the best with computers.

I have installed powermizer already.

So I go into powermizer and disable it.

Then I remove my current dell driver for my video card (it is from 2010).

I go to the Nvidia site and download and install the latest driver for the 770m then I restart my machine.

And when I boot back up the blue screens should stop? Do I have to re-disable powermizer?

Thanks

Yes, you have it right.  

I have a slightly different version of the nvidia driver but your link above looks correct.  You'll need to install the driver and nvidia utilities first and run Powermizer afterwards

When you install Powermizer, I think it puts a shortcut/icon on your desktop, if not then just drag it onto you desktop.  When you run it you'll see a couple of buttons to disable Powermizer when your laptop is using AC or when your computer is using AC and battery (I selected this option).  You'll have to reboot but after that Powermizer will be off ( you can turn it back on by doublelcicking on the powermizer applet again and selecting "On").

I havent seen a BSOD since I disabled powermizer.  I haven't bothered to look in more detail at the voltage or any other adjustments that you can make but Charlybravo was correct, it appears the voltage fluctuations that cause Windows7 64 to throw an exception.

Just my two cents but I dont think you need to disable the Bios Virtualization extensions, I dont see how they're relevant to this issue.

What is and where can I get Nvidia Utlities? Every time I run powermizer i get "settings not found". Thanks

This is usually installed as part of the driver installation Xen.  If you haven't installed the nVidia driver you need to do that first.  I believe I received an error when I first ran Powermizer too but you can ignore it and it works fine.

Ah thank you. I forgot to run it as admin. So far it seems to be working. Thank you

There's an expression in french for this kind of thing : Je te dois une bière mon ami !  

Totally worked for me and it was driving me nuts...works fine when gaming, but when it became inactive and jumped back in full mode it crached. And it all started when I updated the Bios. So it's a good thing to stick with the A26 update. 

Thanks a million, and what you said is totaly true, Dell should update there update :emotion-4:

The A26 bios is available for downgrade form the Dell website ;)

I just upgraded my son-in-law's M4400 to Win7x64. His M4400 has the A14 BIOS. Installed the 285.62 drivers after having issues with the ones Windows Update installed after the install of Win7. Haven't had a BSOD since.

sam

FYI - Running Windows 8 64-bit and laptop works fine using the default Windows 8 Driver - NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.2)

I also used the latest NVIDIA Driver 310.90. That driver worked IF you disabled Powermizer.

I benchmarked both drivers with 3DMark Vantage. The result was 1500 GPU marks for the default Windows 8 driver and the latest NVIDIA driver.

I choose to stick with the Microsoft Windows 8 NVIDIA driver because powermizer works plugged in and on battery! :-)

Below are the WEI score for Windows 8. - BTW - WEI scores were identical between Microsoft and Nvidia Driver.

M4400 - BIOS A27 -

T9600 2.80 Ghz 6MB Cache

8GB 800Mhz DDR2

Nvidia Quadro FX 770M 512MB DDR3

1920X1200 WUXGA 2 CCFL Samsung Screen

256GB Crucial M4 SSD

FYI - Hey Dell, You still need to fix the BSOD issue with Nvidia drivers!

That's interesting and thanks for sharing.  I've switched back to Win7 32bit and havent seen a BSOD with the latest nVidia drivers.

However, what are ppl using for cooling solutions?  This card runs so hot that I usually get an overheat error anytime I have an extended GPU intensive activity.  I'm running a Thermaltake laptop cooler but its still overheating.