Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

Dell pushed out a bunch of driver updates yesterday, check you support page

 

Well their support page says it updated a lot of things on October 3-4, the release dates are much older than that. The only driver update I had was an Intel Thunderbolt Controller driver in checking with SupportAssist and the website.

 

Looks like the Thunderbolt Controller driver didn't fix the issue. Guess I'm just forced to power it down right now. Not a big deal I guess.

 

Just got an update for both network cards in the system. Same issue when putting the laptop to sleep. UGH this is driving me nuts.

 

You can roll back to the previous version (Settings -> Update & Security -> Recovery -> "Revert to a previous build" or some such). You only have a seven day window to do this. Rolling back is actually really fast, 10 minutes or less.

I always recommend dropping the "Targeted" channel (Settings -> Update & Security -> Windows Update -> Advanced options -> Choose when updates are installed... -> "Semi-Annual Channel" NOT targeted). The non-targeted channel gets major updates three or four months after the targeted channel. ("October update" will be delivered in January most likely.) By then, hopefully most of the kinks have been worked out and any necessary driver updates will be available.

 

I appreciate you outlining this for me. I won’t be rolling back and I typically apply updates right away. I typically (as in this case) try to help with feedback and memory dumps for big reporting. I’m looking over my crash dump to see if there is anything I can provide Dell assistance with. Hopefully this will benefit the community at large.


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Totally get it. I used to do that too. I've just found that the pace of releases for Windows 10 is a bit high and there always seems to be issues immediately following major new releases (which now come twice a year, sheesh)... Just don't have time or drive to fight with that anymore :-\

Thanks for taking one for the team

 

Hehe. I get where you are coming from.

They wanted me to run through Dell support assist for the mini dump analysis (which just appeared to run through some tests). It would always stop at 97% at the hardware test under “Advanced Pattern Test” and then said it encountered an error. I reinstalled support assist but with no change.

I sent them the mini dump as requested but I doubt they will take a look.


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I received my 7530 two weeks ago configured with Windows 10, 8750H, 2TB NVMe drive, UHD IGZO display, and 2x16GB. The system now dual boots Ubuntu and Windows.

I tried installing Fedora 28 but the installer refused to boot. I successfully installed Centos 7 but installing the proprietary video drivers caused significant problem, probably because of something I did wrong.

So far Ubuntu runs without issues, and I'll probably leave it installed. I installed Cinnamon, my preferred desktop manager, and that's working as expected. I tried installing Fedora and Centos because I already run those on desktop machines as mail and backup servers, and the 5 year old HP laptop being replaced dual booted Fedora.

 

"October Update" has been "recalled" due to multiple issues (but mostly reports of the contents of the "Documents" folder disappearing after the upgrade).
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/6/...ocuments-deleted-issues-windows-update-paused

Reports were made in the insider program months before release but apparently lost in the shuffle, or ignored?
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/187407/microsoft-has-a-software-quality-problem

Yeah... Sticking by the recommendation to not upgrade right away. :-\