Dell Studio 1557(i7 processor) order in UK

There's a new A04 bios for the 1558.

http://support.euro.dell.com/suppor...typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=385998

 

Have identical spec with 4 yrs at home warranty, 3 yrs McAfee, & £60 of software all for £1020 which works out much the same. Ordered 24th Feb delivered 12th March. But not in a position to open yet. Spend time trying to get a response to over heating problem. Reply below, basically they say if yours overheats update Bios as guided.

Thank you for contacting Dell E-mail Hardware Technical Support. After going through your e-mail, I understand that you have a query related to overheating of graphic cards and Ac adaptor. In this case, I would like to inform you that the problem is not there in these series of system and if you face this problem in your system then please follow the below steps: Step: Updating the BIOS: This will update the system settings. Please note that the AC adapter has to be connected to the laptop and the battery has to be charged for more than 10%. 1. Visit the link mentioned below:_http://tinyurl.com/3btp3v2. Click on the option Drivers and Downloads.3. Please enter the service tag of your laptop by choosing the ?ENTER A TAG? option.4. Choose the option ?Drivers and Downloads?.5. Locate the option BIOS and click on the ?DOWNLOAD NOW? button.6. Save the file on the desktop after completing the download.7. Please make sure that both Battery and AC Adapter are plugged into the system.8. Now RUN the file saved on desktop.9. After you RUN the file system will restart and the BIOS will be automatically updated. If you still face the same issue, then please reply back with the details, so that I may assist you further.

 

Watched a few DVD's today. I see what you mean, there are very small artifacts in the blacks and dark areas. The video is very sharp so i wonder if there is some upscaling going on causing the artifacts as 1080p HD video doesnt seem to show them on my machine as far as i can tell.

Tony

 

Happily, I've not had any overheating problems at all yet. All has been working as should thankfully! Very pleased so far - but not yet had a chance to really check it out - I got this mainly for video editing with my HD video camera - interested to see how Pinnacle performs...

 

Now you have realised! it's annoying. even in a normal laptop hasn't got that kind of disturbance. i have been trying to install different type of nvidia disply driver, different codec but nothing can fix it up. and also i couldn't install the latest driver from nvidia. machine gives me error. if u can carefully watch any video u will see those whole lots of micro tiny square boxes either one side of the screen. i m upset and already spoke with technician. stupid man couldn't give me any solution. it might have been called video rendering or something i m not quite sure. some1 should know what could b the set up for graphics card or video player for not having this problem.

 

I've ordered Adobe Premier elements with this notebook( had been running earlier version on another notebook ) Will being interesting to see how our similar machines with diff video editing software works.

 

Never mind wrong thread

 

Hey maxoutput....how to sort that upscaling video problem out to get rid of those block problem in watching videos. it's just getting my nerves. i have tried my best and waste lots of time. plz do something man, i m so upset. i bought this machine to watch movies and surfing net. oh yea, i have tried in vista that, if i keep aero disabled i can see them less appearing.

NB: I spoke with the technician about this problem and they want to collect the system to check what's wrong with it. did u try urself to talk to them?

 

Well my 3rd order now has a status of:

Order Status: In Production

The Estimated Delivery Date: 08/04/2010 but I now suspect it will be sooner than this.

 

Hi guys,

Have just spent a good half hour reading through this post. I placed my order for a 1558 (i7) yesterday. Suffice to say I'm a little on the apprehensive side after reading all this.

I work with Dell quite a lot (I'm a sys admin and a lot of the companies I work for order Dell products in bulk), but have never ordered from them directly for myself before. Hey ho...

This is my spec:

Base
Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Mobile Processor (1.6GHz, turbo up to 2.8GHz, 6MB L3 Cache)
Memory
8192MB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x4096]
Keyboard
Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Keyboard
Video Card
1GB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD5470 Graphics Card
Hard Drive
500GB (7,200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive
Microsoft Operating System
Genuine Windows® 7 Professional, 64bit, English
Optical Devices
DVD +/- RW Drive (read/write CD & DVD) with DVD Burn software
Wireless Networking
Dell Wireless 1397 Mini Card (802.11 b/g)
Cables
1 Meter Power Cord (3 Wire) - UK
Shipping Documents
English Documentation
Gedis Bundle Reference
N0355811
Standard Warranty
1 year of coverage included with your PC
Enhanced Service Packs
1 year of coverage included with your PC
PalmRest
Silver chainlink palm rest – with Black Chainlink cover only
Order Information
Studio 1558 Order - UK
Primary Battery
Primary 9-cell 85 WHr Lithium Ion battery
Carrying Cases
No Carrying Case
Dell System Media Kit
Studio 1558 Resource DVD (Diagnostic & Drivers)
Camera
2.0 Mega pixel Integrated Web Camera
Colour Choice
Black chainlink
Accidental Damage Support
No Accidental Damage Support
Online Backup
DataSafe Online Backup 2GB 1 year
Telephone Contact
No, Dell may NOT contact me by telephone in relation to my order
Labels
Wireless Label CI7
LCD
15.6in Widescreen Full High Definition (1920 x 1080) WLED with TrueLife
DataSafe (Services Owned)
Datasafe Local 2.0 Basic
Microsoft Application Software
Microsoft® Works 9.0 / English - (Does not include Microsoft® Word)
Protect your new PC
McAfee® Security Centre - 15 Month Protection - English
Power Supply
90W AC Adaptor



Funnily enough have just tried to check the status of my order and it won't accept my Order number or Customer number. My expected delivery date is 30.03.2010 (I added the year as may become pertinent).

How are you guys all getting along?

c

 

I think their order status is broke. Have tried mine and I get nowhere! Great system.

How much did you pay for that spec?

 

Interesting. I ordered about a week ago and my delivery date is 10th april.. for an identical system except i have 4gb not 8...

 

Their order status is still broke.

dimodi, can you check if you can access your order status?

 

Right, ignore that request. My order has been shipped. That was quick!

 

lucky u

 

hey MAXOUTPUT, where r u mate? come on man!!!! i got headache with this stupid problem. look at my post few pages back plz.

 

Hiya
To be honest im not much better off than you. This maybe a codec problem or driver based.
Have you tried different players or installing different codecs (Divx etc), it might also be worth trying the official nvidia drivers,apparantly you can add a line to the set up file so they will install but i have to look at this in more detail.
There are also programs available that hunt the system for broken codecs.
I will have a look at this on my machine asap but havent had much time to play due to work commitments.
regards Tony

 

By the way if you want to install drivers from nvidia download the inf file here
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/drivers/win7x64/195.81/disclaimer
Now place it in the folder that the setup unpacked when you first tried to install the driver and got the cannot continue prompt.
This should be in C drive-nvidia
Now run the set up from there.
i installed the latest from the nvidia site, dont think its helped,ive also cleaned up my codecs and installed divx with no improvement really.

Tony

 

Actually im lieing,i was watching too closely and was watching a screener,its actually much better when watching a proper dvd lol
I have also adjusted the contrast a little.much better especially when full screen.

 

So I have seen my friend's 1558 i7 for the first time today, lime green, what a beauty. I have tested it all day on bios 03 and no unexpected shut downs, the charger is not even warm, screen is so bright that is difficult to look at on max backlight. Its lighter than it looks, very good build quality, keyboard backlight has two setting, half and full power.

 

Is this with the 4570 or 5470 gpu?

 

It's 5470 1GB.

 

So tis the 1558? How's it handle HD stuff..

 

Had an automated call from Dell today telling me my 1558 would be arriving next Tuesday! Woot!

Very much looking forward to getting my hands on it.

As an aside, does anyone know what make the firewire controller is, can't seem to find any info on it anywhere. Am hoping it's not a Ricoh as I've read they're a bit rubbish.

c

 

I have installed the latest version of nvidia that way u explained, but u knw what! my 3D06 Benchmark score drops down to 6300 from 6778. and video quality doesn't change even a single bit. I m talking about vista and i didn't even give a try in windows7.

u got to be careful, even though u can't see them now but it's intermittent. it happenes to me always. it's a laptop, we got to watch videos just seating in front of it. i can't see any single problem in my friends laptop(XPS M1530), even i have got blueray codec film. in my friends xps m1530 these films look very lively where as my one is something whitish though there is not that kind of blocks. As a troubleshoot, i did install klite,divX, CoreAVC codec and also installed nvidia softwares, cuda tool kit etc. i have tried VLC,KMPlayer, WMPLC, WMP.... this sort of players. at present i have installed the latest nvidia driver from hp website which has been released this month. but nothing is fixing this graph blocks problem9it could b called as pixels) in the face sometimes in the leaves of the tree, water... etc.

 

Mines arriving on Monday.

What's the deal with the battery? Do you really need to charge it for the full 12hours. That'll be like torture waiting !!

 

Tuesday for me too, 8am-1pm

You can use it while it's being charged afaik... but you gott have it inn the mains for 12hrs I think.. to train it etc.

 

Hi guys,

how is going studio1558? what about u, maxoutput?

 

Hi nealloy, we all jumped to this thread

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=468806

Come on over!

 

As i dont own a dell i answer here so i dont clog up the other thread with HP talk.
My DV6 is o.k, i have learned to live with the vertical lines as they are part of the screen design and all units will have the same.
I dont watch many films or DVD so i dont really have a problem with regards to artifacts, in fact they were never really much of a problem on my screen, the lines can become problematic when using photoshop though as im never sure if they are on teh screen or image.
Its a very fast machine but it will occasionally stall and fail to finish booting after i login causing me to soft reset, i must have a driver conflict or something.
Apart from that im still pleased with mine.

 

In that case i have to admit that i m lucky as i couldn't see any vertical line on my screen so far and even those pixalation problem which i thought may b a monitor problem is not that actually. its because of the resolution (1366X768). i guess all the notebook with this resolution has got the same pixelation problem, it's really negligible. but still video quality is very poor. yesterday one of my flat mate bought acer aspire timeline. i ran the same film same time in both machine and found lots of variances. his quality is vivid and much more better than mine and mine is hazy and white colour is not purely white, also blue is some sort of different. anyway, i have to learn to live with this as u learned. thanks for reply mate. cheers!!!!