Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

No bios downgrades work. Dell are replacing the mobo tomorrow.

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Took a bit of effort but my 5510 is getting swapped out by Dell due to failure of all fixed major components. Getting an upgrade to the same Xeon v5 processor on newer 5520 and upgraded to 1200M GPU.
I think the authorisation came from the top, one level down from Michael himself, and I'm sure he knew about it too. I made sure of that. I was surprised how much effort and emailing it took, but a little prodding and they were lovely in the end.

Anyway, straight assumption that I'll be able to take the RAM and M.2 SSD and plop straight into the newer computer as even the processor is the same, just the GPU changed.
I'll have to decrypt the drive and reset all that gubbins of course, but I'm thinking a reinstalltion won't be necessary, right? Swap bits over, switch it on?

Cheers!

GB

 

So the mobo got replaced and the machine is now fine. The new mobo came with bios 1.4.0 and right now I have no intention of upgrading...

As an aside the new mobo performs much better than the old one did so I do now suspect the old system had a latent fault, and it's possible the bios upgrade simply didn't work properly as a result or the new bios was extra sensitive to this particular fault. Don't know.

I think I'd rather have Spectre and Meltdown than a broken PC though so I think it's best to wait a *lot* longer before going anywhere near updated firmwares issued by Intel.

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My own inclination would be to upgrade the BIOS, perhaps in steps of about 3 or 4 versions at a time as the cumulative effect of all the BIOS updates is the fixing of numerous bugs and glitches in addition to Spectre and Meltdown. If something breaks then Dell have to come and do another board swap.

John

 

I suspect the BIOS has very few changes from release to release actually. But the spectre/meltdown change *is* significant and all vendors are struggling with this. Intel keep releasing CPU microcodes that are known to be broken, I'd say definitely wait a while longer on anything that claims to fix these issues.

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Anyone updated to the latest Thunderbolt update version 4.26.11.001, A08?
http://www.dell.com/support/home/dk/da/dkbsdt1/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=FJJK7

 

Yes. I haven't noticed any difference. I keep hoping that an update will bring some power management but there's nothing so far. I find it annoying that plugging anything into the USB-C port, even Dell's network adaptor not connected to a network, creates a power drain of about 3W.

John

 

I received BIOS 1.7.0 via WIN10 update last week (go figure). It seems to have resolved all issues I've had with sleep and reboot on resume, and also issues with screen saver overnight often hanging.
I have yet to see the BIOS on Dell support yet.

 

I saw a report someone getting that BIOS for their XPS15 9550 via Win 10 update a week or two ago and have been waiting for it to appear on the Dell support site.

John

 

If it came through Windows Update, it should be in the Windows Update catalog.
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=dell+1.7.0
Click the "last updated" column to sort it by newest first. There are some recent Dell "1.7.0" firmware updates listed here, unfortunately the model that they apply to is not listed, but one of these is probably the Precision 5510 BIOS update? February seems a bit old though...
(Note that there are a lot of duplicates in the list as the update is just being offered for multiple versions of Windows 10.)