Hands on Dell Precision 7710

Not sure if this will help at all. I've had this happen to a few M4800s. Solution was to go to advanced power options, find the setting for "PCI Express -> Link state power management" and set it to "Off."

 

Thank you. I will try this. Today while on battery power the screen went black and the computer did not respond. I had to force the power off by holding the power button.

 

finally caved in and bought a 7710 (e3-1505, 32G, 4K, no ssd, 3 year accidental all for $2442 including tax)
Now the question is what ssd I want to add. Suggestions are welcome. The Samsung OEM drives are good enough? I don't have too much money left :-(

 

Samsung OEM are usually only available via the OEM (ie Dell) unless buying 2nd hand from Ebay.

The samsung "PM950 Pro" is the non-oem M.2 pcie nvme chosen by most. Is typically faster than the OEMs and costs less too.

 

You might want to consider a samsung evo with the issues the PCIe drives are having.

 

My laptop sleep issues appear to be solved.

I went through all of the drivers and programs in this listing for the laptop Precision 7710.
http://downloads.dell.com/published/Pages/index.html

*I prefer that URL when checking Dell updates rather than going to Dells typical Support Driver download page (which sometimes is missing drivers or wrong versions relevant to my system Tag#).

I printed out the 7710 complete driver listing and then I went through each one, top to bottom, marking on paper which software I did not already have but felt I needed (these were mostly related to TB15 dock), those that were not applicable to my systems, those I had but wanted to remove (ie what I consider bloat), or those I had but needed an update to later revision. After that quick inventory check, I went through and downloaded the updates I wanted. Among the updates I upgraded to BIOS 1.3.12 (from 1.3.10)

In the BIOS I disabled the Power Management option for Advanced Battery Charge Configuration. Since my sleep issues seemed to be related to when I had the AC adapter plugged/unplugged while initiating sleep, I figured I might disable that Advanced Charging feature incase it was somehow the cause. I don't know if disabling that is what fixed the sleep issues or if it was simply fixed when I updated to latest BIOS, or if it was resolved from one of the many other updates I applied, but sleep works as it should now.

 

With the 4k display, is there any way to limit it to sRGB gamut? Like a switch in the bios or something? I mean for all applications, not just color managed ones. Kind of like how wide gamut desktop monitors can be switched to srgb.

 

I don't remember seeing anything in the BIOS but I'll check. There is the Dell Premier Color program that allows you to control the switching, if you are using Windows that is.

 

That looks pretty useful. I wish they made a utility like that for linux.

 

Installed the newly released (March 21) 7710 bios. Fixed a couple of minor issues I was having. Sped up boot times.