Precision 7510 Owner's Thread

just looked at my Last bios boot time (Windows10 shows this in task manager under "startup" tab)...

mine is 22 seconds. but I'm somehow okay with this.

I'm on 1.06.06 and use "thorough" boot in bios. I may experiment after I upgrade my BIOS next time to see about getting better startup, but honestly I've not put much effort to improving that time. More concerned if something becomes unstable vs getting faster bios boot time.

 

FWIW, in Win 8.1 w/ 2 SSDs (SATA not nvme), my startup tab shows 7.9 seconds on my M4800.

 

Still around ~14 secs with cold boot. I didn't change any hardware. Fastboot in BIOS, I tried minimal, auto, thorough but still around 13-14 secs.

Weird feature.

 

I don't think drive speeds would make a difference in BIOS startup time because BIOS is on the mobo rather than on the drives. Higher performing SSD speeds will help in the overall boot time though (once the OS begins booting)...I wonder what I can do to get my 22 second BIOS to be faster? I imagine it will require some experimentation on my part with the settings. It could be for any number of reasons and there may be no way to improve it until DELL releases a better/faster tuned BIOS.


*edit: I've performed a few reboots to check some things. Seems that Cold Bootups (booting up with the laptop already shutdown) gives me 20+ sec BIOS start times. Warm Bootups (a restart from within windows for example) gives me 16.7 sec BIOS start times consistently.






I'm betting that if I change some things in BIOS I can improve upon the 16.7 times. It is experiment, but perhaps disabling Secure Boot, simplifying which drives to enable (unchecking SATA-1-4 under DRIVE settings, leaving just the m.2 PCIe checked) since I only have m.2 in my system at the moment. Simplifyng which drives to examine as the boot drive (removing such things as CD, USB, etc from bootlist or to at least to put the primary boot drive at top of the listing). I would like to experiment using AHCI vs RAID in SATA settings too, but that is not a setting that I can easily experiment with.

 

My Dell 7510 with FirePro w517m keeps getting Catalyst control center has stopped working. Anyone experience the same problem?

 

After update to the latest software, it's change from Firepro W5170m to R9 M375X.
Should I downgrade to Firepro driver?

 

If you're running software that requires ISV-certified drivers, yes.
Otherwise, it probably doesn't matter.

 

Has anyone had any issues with the Precision 7510 only outputting through one DisplayPort output on the E-Port Plus Advanced Port Replicator?

Our organization recently started to introduce Precision 7510 units to our employees, and we're finding that they will only output to one single monitor connected via DisplayPort through the E-Port Plus Advanced Port Replicators - even though there are two monitors connected into the two DisplayPort outputs on the E-Port Plus APR. If the monitors are connected via DVI, the Precision 7510 is able to output to both of them through the E-Port Plus APR.

We have tried Precision M4800, Latitude E7450, and Latitude E7470 units in these E-Port Plus APR's with two monitors connected into the two DisplayPort outputs - and they all work correctly.

The Precision 7510 units have the NVIDIA Quadro M1000M video cards, and the E-Port Plus APR's are connected to either a pair of P2417 monitors or a pair of U2414 monitors.

 

Try going into the BIOS where the graphics switching option is, and disabling the option to allow the Intel GPU to use one of the DisplayPorts on the ePort dock. I don't remember what this option is called but it is a checkbox right next to the "Enable/Disable" graphics switching toggle.

 

I have 2 - Dell U2715 displays connected via displayport, one on each port of the E-Port plus. The only issue I ever had was attempting to daisy chain these off a single port as the bandwidth just isn't there to drive 2x 2560x1440.

I have the Quadro M2000M and with this I'm also running a third display via the HDMI port on the machine itself, with no problems.