The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.

Precision 7510 Owner's Thread

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by scrlk, Oct 23, 2015.

  1. dougrz

    dougrz Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    22
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    6
    If you hadn't seen the post a few pages back regarding the screen door effect on the FHD non-touch, it's not good. Heaviest effect I've even seen and a major disappointment.
     
  2. hodgeMN

    hodgeMN Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    49
    Messages:
    628
    Likes Received:
    207
    Trophy Points:
    56
    My outlet 7510 came with this screen according to HWINFO:

    Monitor Name: AU Optronics B156HW01 V1
     
    Last edited: Apr 10, 2016
  3. dougrz

    dougrz Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    22
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    6
    I'm getting Intel video driver crashes now. It'll happen a few times in a row. Video freezes, then flickers, then comes back with a lower right pop-up from Win10 that the driver crashed and has been recovered. I'm running v.20.19.15.4390 dated 2/18/2016. I've of course rebooted between crashing fits and no change. I'll load some other drivers and report back.
     
  4. ygohome

    ygohome Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    210
    Messages:
    1,254
    Likes Received:
    158
    Trophy Points:
    81
    I've had my Intel driver crash once before also. Same v.20.19.15.4390.

    My crash happened sometime last week one evening but has not happened again. I had my external monitor connected while utilizing only the iGPU. I launched a Cygwin terminal/command window on the internal laptop display (cygwin terminal does not scale properly if an external is attached for some reason). When I dragged the tiny ant sized cygwin terminal window to the external display, the scaling was corrected (actually the external has native 2560x1440 and scaled to 100%... ie, no scaling adjustment). Then a couple seconds later and the laptop froze for about 5 seconds. Then the screens went black. Then it returned to normal and windows notifications said that intel video driver crashed but recovered.

    I've not experienced the intel video driver crash again since that happened. I've had the 4390 driver version since about March 29 when I upgraded to it. I've basically forgotten about it until I read your post. If I get this again I may rollback to a prior intel driver version. Let us know how your experiment with different intel drivers works out.
     
  5. dougrz

    dougrz Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    22
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    6
    I installed the 4404 beta driver and so far so good. The setup program would not install the driver, complaining it wasn't correct or certified or something. I used the "have disk" install method. Then after the driver was installed, I ran the setup program successfully in order to be 100% Kosher.

    I did notice that the crashes were happening right when I clicked on a cell in Excel. But I was working a lot in Excel for a few days, maybe coincidence.
     
  6. JH-man

    JH-man Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    94
    Likes Received:
    11
    Trophy Points:
    16
    I may have seen it, just not100% sure what was meant with screen door effect. I guess it's exactly what I was describing, then. Which makes sense, now that I think about it, lol. Looking straight ahead you can see clearly through the holes, looking around, because of the change in angle and becauseyou're so close, you start catching more and more "wireframe" than gaps to see through. Hence loss of luminosity and contrast towards the corners?

    But surely that other user could not have called such a screen "best laptop screen ever used"??
     
  7. SoftDev

    SoftDev Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    23
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    6
    Dell TB15 Thunderbolt 3 Docking -- I own this dock and when I plug into it and don't have the laptop connected to a separate power adapter I receive a warning that the machine is not receiving enough power. I can see that TB3 in its current form does not deliver enough power for the 7510. I am using my eport dock to supplement the power, but even with that I still get a warning. I monitored the power usage of my machine while I am using it and it uses around 65 -- 70 watts. I have the AMD gpu disabled so I'm not expecting power usage much higher than what I've recorded so far. When I use the power adapter (180 watts) that came with the laptop then I don't receive the warning.

    I'm a bit disappointed that I need to supplement the TB3 dock since I have to deal with having a second power source for my machine. At this point I'm not seeing the value in the TB3 relative to my eport dock. In addition, the eport dock has a esata port and the TB15 does not. BTW -- the TB15 I received shipped with a 240 watt power brick -- hard to imagine how that much power will ever be needed.

    Plugging my machine into the eport dock and the TB15 at the same time works fine. Currently I have my backup drive connected via the esata port and all of the other peripherals (e.g., ethernet) connected to the TB15. Except for the USB 3.1 gen1 port that is available on the TB15 and not on my older eport, the TB15 isn't doing much for me.

    Am I missing something or is this just how things are at this point with TB3?
     
  8. Aaron44126

    Aaron44126 Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    879
    Messages:
    5,553
    Likes Received:
    2,076
    Trophy Points:
    331
    This was established before these machines started shipping. Only 130 watts can be transmitted over the Thunderbolt connection. This is enough to fully power the Precision 5510, but not the 7510 or 7710. You will need a power adapter connected directly, or connected to the ePort dock.

    If you plug a 180W (or better) adapter into your ePort dock you should be fine. You cannot "combine" power from the Thunderbolt connection and the ePort dock using less than a 180W adapter.

    I have no idea why the TB3 dock shipped with a 240W power supply... Seems way too high, given the 130W-to-the-PC limit.
     
    Last edited: Apr 12, 2016
    SoftDev likes this.
  9. bee144

    bee144 Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    82
    Likes Received:
    12
    Trophy Points:
    16
    The TB15 supplies 130 watts, which is 50 watts shy of the 180 watts required. The Dell power warning can be turned off.

    I also have a 7510 and TB15(240 watt) and I only use my TB3 power cable. Granted I run my laptop is clamshell mode so the screen is turned off. I also don't run my CPU or GPU at really high utilization so I doubt my system is pulling more than 130 watts. In fact, the other day I took my laptop to a meeting and got the battery down to 80%. I went back to my desk and only plugged in the Thunderbolt cable and continued working. With an hour or so, my battery was at 100% again fully charged.

    Again, you can turn off the power adapter warning, as I did and not worry. If your workload is moderate like mine, you can easily charge the battery and run smoothly.
     
  10. SonOfThunder

    SonOfThunder Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    7
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    6
    Just wanted to let you know a friend tried this ram in his 7510 but had the FirePro card. The laptop wouldn't correctly boot with all four sticks in (would with three) until we turned off integrated graphics. Even after that it would boot but the graphics would glitch on occasion.
     
Loading...

Share This Page