Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

Some info about Chipset driver (not a real driver) http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...-by-obsidian-pc.801464/page-111#post-10633395

 

It looks like it installs and says a reboot is required but upon restarting it still has the same driver and support assist still shows it needing an update, I've tried repeatedly. Dell has elevated the service request and is looking into it as of today.

Interesting information. I don't have any exclamation points in device manager, it just bugs me when the manufacturer has an update and it wont apply.

 

Don't bother with SupportAssist: it's quite buggy. I uninstalled it altogether. Use Intel's own Driver and Support Assistant.

 

Is there a fix for the 7730 audio latency issues? This issue causing intermittent cracking and popping in the speakers? Is LatencyMon appropriate to try and measure this? These are some results with bios 1.8.1. Youtube open in Firefox https://i.imgur.com/3f2m4Qt.png Playing a MP4 in the default windows 10 media player with Firefox open to browse this forum https://i.imgur.com/c0NbeZC.png

 

I went through hell Saturday night installing and reinstalling my OS till I got a clean stable install, Support Assist kept crashing my system.

 

Oof. That's painful.

Yeah, don't bother with SupportAssist. Generally the only drivers that ever need fairly frequent 'updating' are Intel and NVIDIA drivers (for the two GPUs and wireless/BT); sometimes (every two months or so) Dell issues updates for things like the trackpad, audio, the fingerprint sensor, or maybe the BIOS.

I just go to the website maybe once a day, sort by descending date order (i.e. latest on top), and check if any drivers have been updated.

Note that Dell re-issues the same drivers again, so you'll have to click the drop-down arrows for each software package and see the 'Last Updated' date, which might be several months earlier than the date mentioned in the table.

Don't use SupportAssist or Dell Command Update, honestly. They're more trouble than they're worth.

 

I agree, I have never used SupportAssist; I suspect that it is not detecting the installed driver correctly.

I have a feed set up for driver updates, if anyone out there still uses RSS. (You totally should, there's no reason not to have content come to you vs. having to fetch it.)
https://rss.aaron-kelley.net/precision-7530/

 

Are there differences between the drivers required by 7730 and a 7530?

How did you make the feed? Are you scrubbing the site?

 

7730 and 7530 have the same drivers. Updates are posted to both of their pages at the same time. (Aside from the GPUs, they actually have all of the same hardware components, and they share the same motherboard BIOS as well.)

Yes, I am scrubbing this site to create the feed. I have written this piece of software that creates an RSS feed from a specific web page URL using customizeable criteria and use it to keep on top of software updates, among other things.

 

I've had it with the ongoing issue with the TB18DC dock connected to my 7730. Sometimes everything works great for a few days but the problems always return, where almost connected to the dock stops working. Network, audio, USB all fail but DisplayPort keeps working.

I have to disconnect everything and reboot repeatedly until the #@#$()*& thing starts working again. What a waste of time. These ongoing issues are an impediment to productivity.

How the hell does Dell justify charging so much for a dock that's flaky AF??