Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

The "Plus" in Pro Plus is the Accidental (with "proactive" whatever that is). Selecting Pro Plus should remove the option selector for "Accidental" and vice versa. That is how I think it was last time I tried using the configurator. I'm not sure what that proactive stuff is. Seems a little vague what they are selling there and not sure of the value getting "proactive" (I could probably do without the "proactive" feature). But the Pro support with Accidental is great to have, however they bundle or word it.

 

Thanks ygo and Aaron. Small biz sales said the difference was in the accidental coverage, and I believe also in the ability to keep a malfunctioned hard drive.

 

Hi folks, Can someone please share their method of installing Windows 7 on NVMe SSD for this machine? I got my 5510 couple weeks ago and has been struggling ever since to put Windows 7 on it. I'm using Samsung 950 Pro (M.2 PCIe NVMe version). I've tried following half a dozen different posts online including adding Samsung NVMe driver, Intel RST driver, Windows NVMe HotFix (KB2990941) but still couldn't get to it. Thanks!

 

I bought the machine with Win 7 and the cheap HDD and used samsungs cloning software (same page as the nvme drivers i think). ran that and everything worked fine.

EDIT: I did have to switch from RAID to AHCI before the nvme drive showed up in the boot list. once it did i switched back to RAID. Zero issues for me since.

 

That's really great news!

 

Hi everybody,

I just wanted to share my experience with the Precision 5510:

I had a lot of trouble with a fresh Windows 10 installation; I always got blue screens somewhere between once a week and multiple times per day. When running HDD, Graphics and CPU benchmarks I could crash the machine in about 1 hour. After updating all drivers according to Dells recommendation, a main board replacement, BIOS updates to 1.1.19, etc. the blue screens were still there. So Dell now decided to replace the entire Laptop again, but apparently they don't have any at the moment, so my replacement will only come in two weeks. So I decided to give it a last try and installed Windows 7 (which wasn't easy at all, due to missing drivers on the installation media), but finally I figured it out.

My laptop has been running completely stable on Windows 7 since a week now, and I've been running the same benchmarks that used to crash it on Windows 10 over and over for many days. The only trouble that remained is the USB-C GigE Adapter. Either the Realtek driver or the USB3.1 drivers from Intel aren't stable in my setup. It keeps disconnecting under heavy network traffic about once every 20 minutes and occasionally causes crashes when hibernating. I hope this will be fixed in a future driver update, but for now I can live with buying another GigE-USB adapter.

I hope this might help others to opt for Windows 7 on this machine, at least until some more months have passed and all Windows 10 drivers are stable on this hardware. Personally I really like the Windows 10 look, but under the hood there isn't much that would help me with my daily work, so I'm fine with Windows 7 and a stable OS again

cheers,
rvjr

EDIT: Just in case it matters: Hdd is the 1TB NVMe, controller is set to RAID config in BIOS now; I used to have it on AHCI in Win 10.

 

Blue screens are mainly caused by faulty Intel rapid storage driver, which is actually infamous for causing BSODs in every second release or so. Overall Windows 10 seems to be kind of unstable for now, I have noticed an average of 2 BSODs per week....bad for a workstation.

 

It would be helpful to list what exactly the errormessage is in the BSOD...

 

You can get a BSOD from a faulty graphics driver, or even an overheated GPU. I've had a machine recover instantly from an Intel GPU driver error running Microsoft Edge, without receiving a BSOD.

Maybe I'm lucky, but I run CS5 all day, and OneCNC for a couple hours at a time with no issues, save for the aforementioned random Intel GPU crash in Edge.

 

Is there any information about supporting ECC RAM by 5510 from dell?