Aaron44126

There's no reason this would be limited to a certain capacity. It'll probably need an adapter (M.2 keys are different for that slot than for the NVMe slots) and it will not be bootable (at least not without chaining off of a bootloader installed on a different drive).

Huh. Still working on my Precision 7560. I wonder if a driver was pushed down. If you go to Windows Settings and check Windows Update, in the update history under drivers, is there anything from the last day or two? Assuming you rebooted already? (If they did push down an update for the fingerprint reader driver, and it did a USH firmware update, you have to reboot before it works again.)

PTM7950? It comes as a "pad", not a "paste"; you cut it to fit on the chips that you want to cover. I hear it recommended here a lot and I used it in myself in my Precision 7770, the install/application was not hard.

https://www.neowin.net/news/qualcomm-has-reportedly-made-an-offer-to-acquire-intel/ I just saw this reported on like 5 different sites. Reportedly, Qualcomm has extended an acquisition offer to Intel. No indication that it will actually go through … yet. But Intel hasn’t exactly been on a good luck streak recently…

Go to the legacy "Sound control panel" in Windows, pick your speakers from the list, go to Properties -> Advanced and disable "audio enhancements". See if that helps at all. These days there is so much Realtek/Maxx Audio fluff that gets piled onto the sound stack, some of it can cause problems, and I find this to be an easy way to dodge them.

I dunno. I'm not familiar with any of the models listed here. I've also never done a used or refurb purchase. I also tend to buy "the best laptop you can get" and then use it for as long as possible. So, I generally am only looking at the high-end stuff. I've only used Precision M4X00/M6X00 or Precision 7000-series systems in the last 12+ years. Most of the Precision systems that I have used were for work and provided by my workplace, but I did have a personal Precision M6700 that I used as my daily driver for a full ten years. If you want something sort-of current in that vein, you could look at maybe Precision 7540? It's pretty upgradeable so you could beef it up over time, with three full-size M.2 SSD slots that take both NVMe and SATA drives, plus the option for a 2.5" SATA drive (if you go for the smaller battery), I think up to 128 GB of RAM, 4K display option, and graphics go up to Quadro RTX 5000 (Turing generation) with 16GB of vRAM. ...Can't swap out the CPU, though. I did switch to Mac last year so I doubt that I will ever get a newer Precision laptop. Since Apple Silicon systems came out, it's the only option that offers both high-performance when needed (for me, basically gaming) and a good "laptop experience" the rest of the time (all-day battery life / no heat or noise). While there are downsides to this choice, in particular in terms of the system's modularity / upgradeability... I don't accept the direction that Microsoft is going with Windows, and I made an attempt to switch to Linux that ended up with more frustration that I'd prefer, so... I don't really see another option.

Yes, previous builds did have version numbers. The build that I have posted is a development snapshot and has all of the latest changes; it is just what I had available to post. As there will be no further development (by me), I won't be releasing any more versioned builds. I don't even have ready access to the build chain right now, my new personal system is a Mac and the Precision system that I was using to build this software is now running Linux.

Or Linux? Easy enough to set up SMB file sharing and Plex.

You normally have to do an INF mod to get the NVIDIA driver to install in cases like this... I have previously posted some details on the process here. But these days I believe you can use the "NVCleanstall" GUI tool and it will take care of it for you. There is a checkbox during install to add additional hardware support to the INF.

The driver will eventually be available through Dell or other OEMs, just need to look / wait for systems that ship with BE201 preinstalled. That said, I highly doubt that this will work even after the driver is made available. Most likely, there will just be an error in Device Manager and the driver will fail to load. Best case, it "works" but just gives the same Wi-Fi 6 speed. CNVi cards are not a full Wi-Fi implementation; the most important stuff is in the PCH, and the PCH in this system predates Wi-Fi 7.

Err, I am the software author so I generated that build. It is an internal work-in-progress build. The 3.0 version never had a final release.

Yep... Unless 64GB SODIMMs become available and "happen to work".

On Precision 7770, I got the fingerprint reader to work but it would stop working after a while — like, if the system was up for more than 3 or 4 days. Couldn’t figure out a way to “fix” it without a reboot.

I posted a new link that will not expire. This is the final public build; I'm not working on this project anymore, and I do not plan to address any of the remaining issues, since I don't even have ready access to any systems that I can test with anymore. (Dell blocked all known fan control mechanisms as of their 2021 systems.) Anyone is welcome to take the code that I have published on GitHub and work with it. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsIwJHFk4EFdqNc2I45BxBqHhwaKIA?e=YjUSPn

I have 22 BIOS versions archived, including 1.23 and 1.26, but nothing in between those two 😕