Precision 7510 Owner's Thread

It is KB3176934. The changelog can be found here. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12387/windows-10-update-history

Also, this is the worst problem we were having:

 

Thanks for your reply. What brand of cable are you using? I'm looking into buying one. I think the throtling is the same when you use a non dell less powerfull charger. It happens to me when I use an external battery (xpal xp18000a). I use throttlestop (latest beta one) which supports the skylake cpu. I can set whatever values I need. You will have to unckeck the BD PROCHOT checkbox.

 

I am looking to buy Advanced Plus II docking station. There are many different part numbers for it. Does anyone know if these docking station are actually different or is the only difference - PSU that comes with them?

 

Hey guys,

Any opinion on which graphics card is the better out of the W5170M and the M1000M? Cant find a lot of benchmarks for the W5170M - would mainly be using the machine for 3D modeling using Blender and some gaming as well in my spare time. I can score the AMD chip for 200 pounds less but I don't intend on replacing this machine for about 2-4 years so ultimately I want the better performing chip. Also I've heard the AMD chip can cause some troubles due to driver issues - has that all been ironed out?

Cheers,

Tyler

 

There are basically two dock designs (PR0X2 and PR0X3) that utilize the replicator port underneath our laptops. And at least two generations of those designs. Newer gen are usually marketed as "Advanced" meaning that the two USB ports on the very back are USB3.0 with three more USB2.0 ports on the side of the dock. The earlier gen has USB2.0 throughout.

PR0X2 is the wider of the two docks and has more connectors than the PR0X3

PR0X3 is the narrower and has fewer connectors

Dell retained the above 5 character part codes for both old and new gen but they also go by many other part #s or codes, as you have seen. More frustrating is many sellers will have the photo of the PR0X3 (narrow) but with tech specs/description of the PR02X (wide) making very difficult to know exactly what you are buying. Even Dell site has some photos mismatched with product description.

You can find both docks sold either without power bricks entirely or bundled with anywhere between 130 and 240W power bricks.

I have one old gen (USB2.0 only) PR02X and one newer gen (USB3.0) PR02X. I bought them about 6 years apart from each other. Both work equally well.

I bought my USB3.0 PR02X dock on Amazon for $55 brand new and it came with the Dell 240W power brick. The power brick looks exact same that came with my 7710, but with slightly shorter cord that connects to the wall. I can send you the link if interested. The seller is unique in that the product photos actually match the product description/specs.

 

I know it's probably a long shot asking this, but hopefully someone knows the answer.

Let's say I bought a 7510 without a touchscreen, but later wanted one. Let's assume I found one on ebay that includes the entire assembly. Would it be as simple as performing the replacement? Or would the motherboard be incompatible for some reason, and/or would I need a different ribbon cable?

 

Strange problem persists where boot from cold stalls on bios post and Windows never starts. Suspect it is something to do with Bios settings. I have a Samsung 512 NVMe and Samsung 2TB Evo drive installed with 32 GB Kingston RAM (Non-EEC). Windows 10 boots from the NVMe drive. Is there any Bios setting that might be interfering with the boot from cold ? Once it hold the power button down and turn off and straight back on again the bot happens normally (everytime). Its not a big problem but nonetheless annoying.

 

I've got the Dell's answer about Graphic Special Mode option in BIOS 1.06.06 :

Windows 7 :
No usage

Windows 10 :
It allows the Nvidia GPU to handle external ports when using Switchable Graphics BIOS option. Windows 10 choose itself the right GPU to use.

Linux (no info from Dell, my test with Ubuntu Gnome 16.10 beta and Nvidia 367.44 driver) :
GSM + Nvidia = all Nvidia, internal and external (the external screen does not appear in Gnome's monitor settings but in Nvidia settings)
GSM + Intel = no connection to HDMI external screen
no GSM + Intel = ok
no GSM + Nvidia = ok, external screen does not appear in Nvidia settings but in Gnome's settings
Summary : only few users could find this GSM BIOS option useful running Linux.

 

Thanks for that info. This is good news for me. I always had trouble previously using dGPU (switchable graphics disabled) with my ePort dock in that whenever I undocked, if I wasn't shutdown first (even if it was asleep), the laptop display would always be blank when re-docking or awaking from sleep. In other words I always had to first shutdown my laptop before undocking which is very inconvenient. Using switchable graphics I never had that problem but I preferred using dGPU when docked and using my external displays.

With this new option I have best of both worlds. I can have switchable graphics enabled in BIOS (circumventing the problem I had when undocking while asleep or before powering off) but still using dgpu exclusively for my external displays. Then when I do undock I get the power saving advantages of having switchable graphics enabled plus I don't have to shutdown before undocking.

 

Even before this update, the dGPU exclusively drove the DVI/DP external displays attached to the ePort dock if switchable graphics were enabled. (Actually there is an option in the BIOS to hand one of those ports over to the Intel GPU, but you can turn that off, not sure whether it is on or off by default. It is right next to the checkbox where you enable switchable graphics. VGA port is always handled by the Intel GPU.)

Displays attached directly to the laptop ports or TB15/WD15 docks would be driven by the Intel GPU if switchable graphics were enabled, and this "special graphics mode" seems to change that so that they use the dGPU. This way you can hook up crazy things like 120 Hz displays or VR headsets that need capabilities not available on the Intel GPU (or if you want to just take the Intel GPU out of the mix when docked).