Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

Just recieved one of my 2 5510. Dell is investigate were why second laptop is, they conifmred that the shipping company only got one....

On opening checked they keyboard, feels nice so far.
But the layout is anoying, its the new "nordic" layout which is bad combo of Swedish/Danish/Norwegian layout, looks crazy!!

BUT, the touchpad was badly mounted, it doesn't sit centere in the palmrest cut-out, so when left-clicked is slooowly rizes back. ANd there is carbon fiber sticking up from the Palmrest near to the edage of the touchpad. Service is order even before I started the machine!!

When booting the bios warns me that the power adapter is not recognized... This is not nice sine I use the power adaper it was shipped with. Based on previous experience from Precision systems my machine will most probably run at half speed with none recognizeable Power Adapter...

 

That sucks, hopefully they will rectify all of those quality issues for you quickly. And hopefully they won't be common quality issues in the Precision line.

 

Both trackpads are the same.

 

I just received my 5510 about an hour ago. I got the same message, but only once. I rebooted twice after that and did not get the message anymore.

 

What Dell driver activate the fn-keys? Mine doesn't work for most of the functions like volume and brightness, but work for some.
--My fault, had activated fn-lock.... Strange that it persisted reboot.


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My warning disappeared after BIOS upgrade, however my spare power adapter that I ordered was recognized at all time. The same partner number as the one that was shipped with the laptop.


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Does anyone know if its possible to turn off the automatic switch off of the key backlights? Or at least lengthen the time it takes until it dims down.

 

On the 7510 you can do it in BIOS though I haven't tested it, don't know if same on 5510

 

Oh ok, I havent seen that in the 5510 BIOS. As far as I can see I can only control the brightness and on/off completely, same as Fn+F10. But it still turns it off after a few second, you have to touch the clickpad or keybord to make it lit up again. Really sucks when using a mouse...

 

Anyone know where to find touchpad drivers for win 7, the Dell OEM touchpad driver. It's not on dell's driver download page.

Or do anyone know how to apply the original Synaptics driver, I tried to install it but no success. Now my touchpad do not show up in the control panel and I can not access the settings for it.

I'm trying to get the middle mouse button action from a three finger tap.

--OK, I found the driver on the download page in a driver pack *.cab, you need to download and extract the drivers and figure out which one is the Dell Touchpad driver, then run the InstNT.exe (not 100% straight forward)
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=C4XFD&fileId=3493231739&osCode=W764&productCode=precision-m5510-workstation&languageCode=EN&categoryId=SM
(Dell support UK first asked me to Google for the drivers, then they asked me to call back and order a DVD with the drivers, is that ProSupport???)

--Finally I got the touchpad and gestures to do my middle-click.
By a registry hack I got the 2-finger-click (not 2-finger-tap which is scrolling/panning) to give a middle-click. Also by compiling a simple script with "autohotkey" to generate a middle-click and then set the 3-finger-tap action to run that script.
I just wish the gesture-actions were easier to configure like the original Synaptics driver.

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