Aaron44126

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 😕

Well, the group he sued — Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) — has disbanded, apparently because of the lawsuit and expected costs fighting it. So in the end, Musk gets what he wants ...? https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/8/24216202/garm-x-twitter-musk-advertising

Elon Musk tries to sue other companies into purchasing X/Twitter ads? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/elon-musk-declares-it-is-war-on-ad-industry-as-x-sues-over-illegal-boycott/

It will definitely not work. Precision 7550 GPUs do not have the same physical shape or position of components as the Precision 7540 GPUs. If you fit a Quadro RTX 4000 or 5000 into this system, you will also have to replace the heatsink, as those GPUs has screw holes in different positions than the others.

Since Precision 7X60 (2021) you have been able to order systems with a GeForce GPU. You must order through a sales rep to get this option... they don't offer it on the web site.

Anyone tried Animal Well? I keep seeing rave reviews of this pop up from people that I follow on YouTube. Going to start it soon.

Yeah, you have the parts list right, plus I believe a different heatsink/fan assembly is actually needed as well. I didn't think there are any AMD card options for these systems? Or maybe it wasn't until Precision 7X50 that Dell dumped AMD GPUs... At the time, there was a fair amount of attention on NBR around using Precision 7540 GPUs in the Precision 7530, which works fine (but does run into NVIDIA driver INF mod issues that you have with any such "unsupported" GPU upgrade). In Precision 7540, the RTX 4000 and RTX 5000 GPUs use a different heatsink than the lower-end NVIDIA GPUs (which also use a different heatsink than you'd see in an iGPU-only system). You are able to take the heatsink from the Precision 7540 and install it in the Precision 7530 as well to make those high-end GPUs work. I would think it is a safe bet that Precision 7740 GPUs would work fine in the Precision 7730.

Looking like a no go since Intel is not releasing "business" "HX" CPUs for 15th gen. (And there's nothing new from NVIDIA, either.) We will have to wait and see what they have for 2025.

You can get this by installing the package "smbios-utils" from the Ubuntu repos. These commands (run as root) will allow you to change the thermal profile. smbios-thermal-ctl --set-thermal-mode=balanced smbios-thermal-ctl --set-thermal-mode=cool-botom smbios-thermal-ctl --set-thermal-mode=quiet smbios-thermal-ctl --set-thermal-mode=performance

I agree more or less, these days I find it fine to do the base Windows install, get it online (install Ethernet or Wi-Fi driver), and let Windows Update take care of everything. I think that it will get every single driver. I'd still install the GPU drivers from Dell, and maybe some extra non-driver stuff like Dell Optimizer if you think you actually need it.

I used Linux (Ubuntu) on Precision 7770 for a while and the only issue that I really had was poor power balance between the CPU and GPU (which I also observed on Windows), and the fingerprint reader wouldn't work consistently. Which Dell Command app are you trying to use from Linux, and why?

Yeah, next thing I would do here is: Switchable graphics back off Run DDU and tell it to whack the Intel graphics driver Switchable graphics back on Install the current Intel GPU driver from Dell's site HDR does allow for some more vibrant colors, but situations where it is useful are minimal (IMO) — certain videos, and certain games, which should automatically trigger it when running full screen (no need to switch the entire desktop to HDR mode). I guess, you could also be working with HDR imagery (photos) and maybe then you'd need to switch it on. Please do not disable NVIDIA graphics from Device Manager if the system is running with hybrid graphics disabled. You'll lose the internal display.

1.20.1 is the one I think people were complaining about, with poor CPU performance? The whole reason that bridge BIOS was posted was to get back to an older version to get full performance back, before 1.21.1 was posted. My 7770 has been fine with 1.21.1, or as "fine" as I'd expect it to be anyway given this system's issues, but I have not attempted to enable HDR. (I only use it remotely now anyway.)

I don't have the BIOS bridge file, but you might be able to get around this by ... Toggle "switchable graphics" in the BIOS setup. (Enable it if you have it disabled, or vice versa.) This will switch which GPU is driving the laptop internal display, should have the internal display show up as a "new" display to Windows, and might change the behavior you are seeing with HDR. Get into safe mode, and run DDU, which should reset a bunch of display stuff. That might help you get past this too. ...I don't know why the HDR implementation in Windows is so shoddy. When I tried setting the whole desktop to HDR mode, I couldn't stand it, everything looks so washed out.

Yeah, I get that... just interesting in this case as a way to compare how well the Prism emulator works when faced with a high-CPU-load job.

https://www.theverge.com/24191671/copilot-plus-pcs-laptops-qualcomm-intel-amd-apple Nothing surprising... Snapdragon X Elite holds its own against most of the competition in both single-core and multi-core Geekbench and Cinebench, beating every Intel Core Ultra 7 system tested here. It is not able to beat Apple M3 in single-core (as already shown). This is the first comparison I have seen that includes Apple's higher-end chips, M2 Max and M3 Max, which both win out against the Snapdragon in multi-core tests. M3 Max gets almost 50% higher performance in Geekbench and almost 75% higher in Cinebench. Not a fair comparison, sure, since "Max" systems cost a fair bit more than the Snapdragon systems. I don't see any high-end 55W Intel "HX" CPUs in the performance comparison. GPU performance is totally meh. I mean, I guess it could be worse, but both AMD and Intel integrated graphics are markedly better than the Qualcomm integrated GPU. Never mind pitting it against M2/M3 Max or any system with even a low-end discrete GPU. There's also a test comparing Blender running a CPU-heavy job and comparing the performance of it running natively or via x86 emulation. Looks like emulation via Prism gets you about a 40% performance penalty. I've seen similar benchmarks of apps running on macOS under Rosetta 2 that show only a ≈25% loss in performance compared to running native, so I think Microsoft still has some work to do here as well.

CAMM2 is an official JEDEC standard now. Other manufacturers are adopting it. You should be able to find modules anywhere you'd expect to find RAM on sale. ...For those of us who have a system with CAMM (1) memory (Precision 7X70 + 7X80 systems), tough luck, we were the guinea pigs and upgrade modules are only going to be available from Dell or aftermarket sites. Hopefully, Dell switches to CAMM2 with the next iteration of systems in 2025.

DDU is "Display Driver Uninstaller" which is a good tool to remove traces of the NVIDIA / AMD / Intel drivers on your system and start fresh. I have used it many times myself. https://www.wagnardsoft.com/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-

I am on the version right before this (1.30.1) and it has been fine... Planning to do 1.31 next Tuesday (July 9) since there will be Microsoft patches that day and I'll have to reboot anyway.