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Found a good deal on a 7780 with everything I want except the GPU. It has a 2000 Ada - was wondering if its possible to buy a 5000 Ada and swap it in... I see there a few for sale on ebay et al, but was wondering if the BIOS would accept it. Thoughts?

Thanks, I just returned it, the benchmarks on those is just way to low for the price.

Need to image my current boot 1TB SSD so I can swap it out with a 4TB Samsung. I am assuming I can image the boot drive and then apply that image to a new drive but keeping the new drives physical size... any thoughts on which app is best for this?

Anyone know if the 285H will be a decent enough improvement over the 185H to justify waiting for it? Any other improvements in the chassis or ports between the gens?

CAMM2 is less expensive I am seeing, but still 2x what sodimms are. https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr5/ct64g75c2lp5xg I went to look at getting an outlet 7780 but they are using CAMM only, so yeah, 2k for 64 GB. WTF was DELL thinking.

Let me expand on this. I want to do a full restore of my laptop back to factory. DELL is saying they don't sell/have anything that can do this, so I am left with this: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000125230/how-to-create-and-use-the-dell-recovery-restore-usb-drive which apparently just makes a recovery point from your existing install (so it has to be in perfect working order, which mine is not) or a basic Windows recovery download/install with no DELL drivers.

Just spoke with DELL and they no longer sell USB recovery devices, so how am I supposed to get a full recovery USB with the OS and DELL drivers integrated? They keep pointing me to the Win recovery process but are leaving out how to get the DELL drivers integrated into it. I know the DELL stuff needs to be installed in a particular order so would like an all-in-one solution. Any help is appreciated.

RIght, I'm at 128 (4x32) and I paid 380 for it.

No one, and I mean no one is going to pay 1100 to go from 32 to 64. DELL can kiss their corporate sales goodbye. SMH

Right, and going to 128 GB is 2,000 https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-camm-memory-upgrade-64-gb-ddr5-5600-mt-s-not-interchangeable-with-sodimm/apd/370-bbhk/memory https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-camm-memory-upgrade-128-gb-ddr5-3600-mt-s-not-interchangeable-with-sodimm/apd/370-ahfr/memory Even on Amazon its 1100 for 64GB https://www.amazon.com/Dell-DDR5-Modul-CAMM-5600/dp/B0C5Y471MT

CAMM going to be the only memory option going forward with DELL? I noticed that going from 32 to 64 GB now is $1,100... this would be an absolute deal breaker for us using DELL from now on.

OK thanks, I'll try that.

What's DDU? Res change works, yes. I have no DELL apps or drivers installed that relate to video - no diaplay calibration, nothing. I don't think I have optimus installed.

BIOS adjustment works, and updated drivers with the Feb 24 ones from DELL's website, still no luck, no brightness adjustments, really weird.

I'm using 536.45 but honestly I don't know if this is the DEL signed driver or not... haven't tried the BIOS adjustment yet, can't reboot at the moment.

Hi all, I am not able to adjust the laptop screen brightness - I have tried the keyboard keys, the mobility center, the display setting, the NVIDIA control panel... nothing I do works. The screen is pegged at 100% and is over saturated, not sure how. Thoughts? DPM 7760, Win 10 Pro, switchable graphics off.

Just realized that my DELL sound bar has a line-in, so problem solved 😄

This is kind of what I was planning on doing, but am out of USB C ports - does this work with USB A? So something like this: https://www.amazon.com/DuKabel-ProSeries-Mic-Supported-Headphone-External/dp/B07RS11M1T?th=1

Hi, the Waves MaxAudio Service Application is using over a GB of memory and is constantly using 5 to 10% CPU and High to Very High power usage. My fan is running all the time now. If I reboot the machine it'll be OK for a while, but if I plug headphones in and watch YT videos for a bit it jumps right back up to ridiculous levels. I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling it to no avail. If I kill the process I can no longer use headphones... is there any fox for this, or is there an alternative driver I can use so my headphones work without having Waves MaxAudio Service Application running? This is on a DPM 7760 Win 10 Pro

Yeah, I ended up[ using a generic ISO and then the DELL software to add all of their apps, etc. Worked out great, super easy and was able to use the original DELL Win 10 OS product key.

Appreciate it, I'll try the Rufus method. Again, pretty weird DELL doesn't have a way to reset your computer w/o an internet connection.

Can't seem to find a way to do a factory reset on a 7450 using a USB recovery stick I created using the DELL OS Recovery Tool w/o an internet connection. There is an option for a simple reset but it is always greyed out, am assuming that that is because I do not have the recovery partition on the drive any longer. Is there a fully offline USB stick method to reset these? Seems weird to even have to ask this, wtf DELL?

My Lenovo P17 Gen II has been worse, but agree that these Precision Mobiles have had a fair share of driver issues the last few years.

So it looks like it was the video driver. I was using the generic one from Nivdia and not DELL.

Have not tried that either, will do though.