Precision 7510 Owner's Thread

GPU might actually be missing...
To revert to switchable graphics enabled, you can pull the BIOS "coin" battery.

 

I have the new Alienware and Razer Stealth and a few other laptops and never had this problem before. Any help around getting the 7510 to be able to boot back to bios and enable switchable graphics with a black screen now?

 

Thanks I'll try that

 

Can't find in the manual where the coin cell battery is located, can you point me to that area? Thanks

 

This is from the first page of the 7710 owner's thread.
http://i.imgur.com/wxJbEVo.jpg
The coin cell battery is located in the center-right of the image. It is connected to the motherboard using a small red-and-black cord. This is the bottom with bottom panel removed.
I believe the layout of the 7510 will be very similar. You can disconnect the plug from the motherboard for a few moments to reset the BIOS to default settings.

 

It is bug in BIOS, not proof of missing Quadro. I have configuration of AMD Fire Pro and I have experienced similar problems with my unit.

Coin battery is located under main cover. You have to remove battery cover, than to screws, take of the main cover and unplug coin battery. Everything is in manual.

Aaron44126 was faster than me.

Just checked to be sure: There is no information about any discrete graphic card in BIOS. I have AMD Fire Pro in my Precision 7510, but any word about it in BIOS summary.

jasonj566, why are you stubborn? There is only one way to be sure. You must download and boot up with any Live CD/USB Linux distribution.

 

Never said I was stubborn, I removed coin battery put everything back together and booted up and it says pie-e61 media test failure to check cable and no boot device found

 

If you were previously using UEFI boot you might have to set that in the BIOS again. I'm not sure what it defaults to.

 

Probably your hardware is fine and you have your NVIDIA graphic card. Do not experiment with BIOS setting on Windows tools any more.

There is only one (software) way to be sure: start Live USB Linux distribution and use lspci command in terminal. Another (hardware) way is removing covers and keyboard to exam the motherboard.

 

I was able to reboot, I did use the information above and did verify that the NVidia M2000 video card that was on my Dell invoice, was not on the laptop that I received yesterday. I called Dell and they are shipping part out and having technician dispatch install it tomorrow.