Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

Hi All,

I received my 5510 yesterday, which was an upgrade for me from a XPS15 L521X. I ordered the base model with upgraded display and Xeon processor. Upon receipt, I installed a Samsung 950 Pro 512GB and 16GB (2x8) of Kingston HyperX 2400mhz memory. I cloned the HDD to the 950, switched to AHCI, and then installed the Samsung drivers.

All is working well! Boots in less than 10 seconds, no stability issues, seeing 2320 reads and 1550 writes.

I have a Samsung 850 Pro on order which I will install for additional storage space.

Kevin

 

Unfortunately despite full support for the Intel Xeon CPU and even having the required motherboard chip-set to support the ECC memory, somehow, someway it is not supported. It was stated by Mano_G in Bokeh's thread and some people even tried it regardless and could not boot up the machine. I am suspecting that much like M3800 receiving an update a year into it's original shipment date, the 5510 is going to get pretty much same thing which will bring ECC support to the model.

As for the 2666 MHz memory, the E3 1505 Xeon only supports up to 2133 Mhz modules according to the Intel Arch site.

 

I know that is what the Intel site states. I can confirm that the Kingston HyperX 2400Mhz is functioning at 2400Mhz.

 

wow, thanks for that! Then I might just as well try the 2666 Mhz on mine as the price difference between the 2400 Mhz and that one is only a few quids

 

I can't believe this... it's happened again. Microsoft shoved some updates and now I have constant BSODs as soon as I enable the Intel GPU driver on Windows 10. System restoring to just before update didn't work. I'm getting very very annoyed with this machine now. Well, more so Microsoft. It'd been running fine for a month.

 

Well...seems after a lot of hassle, that reverting to the standard nvme express driver from the samsung one is not having all the BSODs. God knows what Microsoft's put in this latest "critical" update.

 

I guess I've been lucky in that my 5510 has been working well from day 1. However, there is one weird glitch that I wonder if anyone has experienced.

While I wait for my TB15 dock (sigh), I've been using the HDMI port to drive an external monitor in addition to the laptop built-in display. One problem - it doesn't wake from sleep. While the laptop display comes back to life, it appears that the HDMI port is powered down and requires the cable to be removed and reinserted to "wake up". Monitor setup worked fine with my m4600 and dock.

I've ensured the latest drivers, rolled the Intel 530 driver forward and back, turned off pci express power management, etc... Dell is suggesting a new mother board.

Anyone encountered?

Thanks, Chris

 

I've had similar issues with the hdmi port - some monitors work straight away, others work with updated drivers, and some don't show any image at all. However, all monitors work with the USB 3 HDMI dongle thingy. It's quite annoying, but I remember to keep the dongle at hand.

 

YES. Same thing happens to me. I'm running 2 screens, one TB3 to DVI, the other HDMI to DVI. When the system shuts the monitors off the HDMI one never comes back on. I also have to unplug it and plug it back in. I've resorted to just having the system never turn the monitors off and doing it myself before I go home.

I'm also waiting on my TB3 dock which will solve all my problems (HA!).

 

I have a Dell monitor at work, that almost always doesn't turn on after turning blank due to inactivity. Quickly hitting the monitor power button twice brings it back on. Slightly better than unplugging and replugging.