Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

Have anybody bought this new Thunderbolt TB15 Dockstation and could check if f.lux is working on external display through thunderbolt cable?

 

update to BIOS 1.1.19 solved "warm reboot" problem for me.
Samsung 950 pro ssd drivers solved BSOD.
Now is stable in both OS!

Config: dual boot win10 /ubuntu15.10
NVMe 512 stock ssd / AHCI mode

cheers!

edit: suspension (closing the lid and reopen it) still not working in win10: keyboard lights up but screen remains black. BTW it works well on linux

 

Updated to the latest BIOS and my PM951 till cuts read speeds with about 45% after sleep/lid close. So are you telling me that after this last BIOS upgrade I can just switch to AHCI and everything will work fine?

 

I'd say so, as long as you boot in safe mode the first time after the switch, otherwise it won't boot

I didn't try any benchmark yet so I can't speak about performance

 

Ahh ok! f12 at startup right? Do I need to install any additional drivers when in Windows safe mode. Btw Im running win 7.

 

Yes press F12 at boot and select bios setup. Then look for SATA operations, choose AHCI, accept and reboot. No need for additional drivers, only boot in safe mode than reboot again

 

Running Windows 7 it may be more complicated than "just boot in safe mode once". This trick works only with Windows 8 and up. Google around about switching from RAID to AHCI on Windows 7. You need to make a registry tweak before you switch.

 

Right I saw a guide for that reg hack now! Question is if its really better with AHCI...?

 

My bad, should have checked before posting.
Still, WOW, I can reboot now !!

 

Hi guys,
it seems a common problem, therefore I write here in order to solve this.

First of all my configuration:
Dell precision 5510, ssd 512GB nvme, 16GB Ram, FHD screen, intel Xeon processor.

When I received the beast, the first thing that I did was to shrink the windows partition in order to install ubuntu in dual boot.
Then I upgraded windows to windows 10 and after that I installed ubuntu 15.10 setting the ahci mode in bios before.
To install ahci drivers I booted in safe mode and then normal mode again.

Initially I had a lot of random bsod using windows (kernel inpage error or critical process died).
When I realised that the driver installed in my system were old, I proceeded to upgrade these ones and now I have more rarely bsod screens (when they occur, they are always critical process died and always when the ac power is plugged in).

Therefore my current issues under windows are the random bsod 'critical_process_died' and the impossibility to reboot the system, since when I perform this operation, the laptop reboot in a black screen without anything. So, I need to manually shutdown the system. The next boot it will boot correctly into windows.

Do you have already solved these issues?

Thanks in advance!