Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

Both machines are silent when doing normal tasks. When the fans come on the HP fans are lower-pitched and are quieter, but not by much.

The Dell has a better keyboard layout than HP's imo; specifically the arrow keys and 'page up/down' key arrangement. The keyboard on the HP has less flex and is less 'spongy' than the Dell keyboard. Key travel is about the same.

 

How did you manage to install the TPM firmware update?

I cleared TPM in the BIOS Settings und afterwards could start the firmware install process.
The notebook restarted (and hat to reset the Windows PIN) but the version is still the old one.

 

I have very similar config (I have the OEM 1TB NVME drive) , but how did u get Unbuntu install to recognize the NVME drive - Intel RST gets in the way as its set to RAID

 

Why do you not just switch it to AHCI, if you aren't using any RAID arrays?

 

I checked the SPD content and 1333 is not supported. Also Thaiphoon Burner is not able to write to the SPD (write to SMBus addresses 50-57h are disabled by bios). Seems I need new ram.

 

You could get yourself a hardware programmer and an SOIC8 clip, and try to program the SPD data directly.

 

I have to talk to our hardware guys if we have something like that

 

Yep, did that, had to make sure Bitlocker was not enabled - ubuntu installed. Now have dual display probs :-(

 

Dell Precision 7530
specs below

Weird display problems
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Gnome 3.28.2
Dual boot with windows 10 (monitor works fine with windows 10)
Dell precision BIOS 1.8.2 (latest)


On boot I see the Ubuntu splash screen on both laptop(1980x1020) and
monitor(Dell 2415Q-3840x2160) but after entering pwd - the laptop monitor is
fine but on the external monitor its all black, but i can see the mouse cursor and
when i drag (eg terminal) onto the second monitor it stays all black and i cant see the
app. Looks like the colors on the second monitor are all screwy

The monitor is definately recognised
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
DP-1-6 connected 3840x2160+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 527mm x 296mm




Machine spec below (from HardInfo)
Computer
Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2176M CPU @ 2.70GHz
Memory 32696MB (2165MB used)
Machine Type Notebook
Operating System Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
User Name mquinn (mquinn)
Date/Time Sun 05 May 2019 14:42:07 AEST
Display
Resolution 5760x2160 pixels
OpenGL Renderer (Unknown)
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version
Kernel Linux 4.18.0-18-generic (x86_64)
Version #19~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 5 10:22:13 UTC 2019
C Library GNU C Library / (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1) 2.27
Distribution Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

Display
Resolution 5760x2160 pixels
Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version 1.20.1
Current Display Name :1
Monitors
Monitor 0 1920x1080 pixels
Monitor 1 3840x2160 pixels

 

Had to disable switchable graphics and it works fine now

What do I lose by doing that ??

One more problem - wont wake up now after going to sleep, have to do a hard reboot