Hands on Dell Precision 7710

It was set to raid. When I changed to achi the unit blue screened on start up.

 

Nvidia drivers were reinstalled. All blue screens happen with no programs running and also just using ms office or just surfer web. They just happen

 

I had the exact same issues as you on my 7710 with amd, PCIe M.2, raid and after a video card replacement and then mobo replacement by Dell with no results I gave up with Dell support and took matters into my own hands. After studying the BSOD logs I decided the Intel RST drivers were suspect. I reverted back to rapid storage technology Version 14.0.0.1143 from Intel site and instant results. No more BSOD after that. Results may vary. I sent mine back within 30 day window and will reorder when platform matures a bit.

 

Thanks. Will probably do the same if replacement sucks out

 

On the 7710 with an Nvidia card (M5000M) with switchable graphics enabled in bios and using three DVI monitors with the TB15 and not using the internal display, is there a way to see with GPU is being used? I found in the Nvidia Control Panel an option to put an icon on the task bar and it does show when the Nvidia GPU is being used when I use Photoshop, but when using Adobe Acrobat it is saying it is not being used although the settings in the Nvidia control panel has the Nvidia GPU selected for the program Acrobat. Same thing when docked and using internal display.

thanks

 

You can't change disk controller modes on the fly. You must do some prep work for the system to not BSOD on the next boot. For Windows 8/10, this is simply booting safe mode once after the disk controller mode has been changed.

 

Hmm, I've not experienced any crashes yet (knock on wood) while using Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 to edit and render my videos. Ive been using Cuda GPU Acceleration for Rendering and Playback and using Accelerated Effects (which utilizes Cuda GPU acceleration). My Nvidia driver is 361.91. Prior to upgrading to 361.91 I was using the Nvidia driver 354 version (also without crashes) that was preinstalled on my machine from Dell.

Which driver version are you running Bokeh, and is it happening in a particular Adobe product? Also check the release notes of the version you are using and see if it is a known issue.

Here is the 361.91 release notes that contain a few sections about known issues in this version and also fixed issues.
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windo...-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf

 

This may be of interest to anyone experiencing the BSOD:
http://en.community.dell.com/dell-g..._support/end-user/f/4985/t/19679860?pi41074=1

 

Not sure if that is what is causing hawaii's crashes, but thanks for that link. That link described exactly my scenario when I was getting BSOD. My 7710 would blue screen consistently whenever support assist would analyze my system. My solution was to uninstall Dell's supportsystem. Funny that it is a tool meant to help diagnose potential system faults while it itself is what causes BSOD.

 

Thanks for the link Marcco and yghome...i forward the link to my prosupport person, lets see if he has nathing to add.