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    Tempting fate, I ran the 1.8.0 update. It completed successfully but the system would not boot afterwards. Black screen with keyboard backlight blinking on and then off every 20 seconds or so. (Maybe the reason it was pulled has something to do with this?) Back on the phone with ProSupport and they’re setting up another motherboard replacement for tomorrow. In the meantime, I’m on my Precision 7530. [Edit] Holy cow is the display panel on the Precision 7560 way better than the one on the 7530. Didn't realize what I was missing until I didn't have it anymore. 😛 On the 7530 it feels like I am at 60% brightness (even though it is set to max) and the backlight near the left and right edge of the panel seems off.
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    Motherboard swapped out a bit ago. The tech seemed competent. The process took about an hour. The new motherboard does have a switch by the PCIe4 slot. I know that @katalin_2003 mentioned that he had a motherboard without the switch, and someone posted a photo (that I can't find right now), so, I guess I didn't get the new revision. (The stock of parts that they are using for replacements is certainly separate from the stock of parts that they are using to build new systems, and it could be much older as well.) Anyway, all three drives are currently showing up, so the problem is "solved" for now. I haven't had the PCIe4 drive disappear after about an hour of use. I'll try it and see how it goes.... [Edit] For an indication of its age, maybe, the replacement motherboard arrived with BIOS version 1.5.0.
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    Start11 now adding "legacy customization options" back to the Windows 11 taskbar. (I am aware that other products like StartIsBack are also doing this... but I think it is just by invoking the Windows 10 taskbar?) https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22980730/start11-windows-11-taskbar-ungrouping-features https://www.neowin.net/news/start11-v12-beta-brings-back-taskbar-ungrouping-and-more-in-windows-11/
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    Here you can see the score distribution for systems with a RTX 3080 laptop GPU. Looks like average is 11,500. I'm not surprised that the Precision 7560 scores a good bit lower. RTX 3080 is generally seen in beefy/larger gaming laptops. Being a 15" system and locked to around 90W, the RTX 3080 is not living up to its full potential in the Precision 7560. (Still a high score compared to prior GPUs. The fastest one I have personally tested was a Quadro P5000 system which scored around 4,600.) I don't know enough about the normal score range to say if this seems unreasonably low or not. From the little chart, it looks like there are a good number of 3080 laptop results in the 8500-9000 range (just not nearly as many as there are for higher ranges). I'd be interested to see how much difference there is between that and your 7760/A5000. If you do more tests, if you can post your result URL that should be interesting too. (It will show stuff like scores and FPS for individual tests, what the GPU clock speed was like during the test, etc.) Just got off the phone with Dell ProSupport. Explained the issue and they started out by trying to ship out a replacement NVMe drive. When I explained that the drive is working in an external enclosure and that I tried another drive in that slot and it didn't work either, they switched to wanting to replace the motherboard (which is what I wanted). Pretty no hassle / painless conversation, as has been my general experience in the past with ProSupport. The whole call lasted about ten minutes, including the initial stuff just going through the phone prompts. The rep I had didn't seem super knowledgeable about the system specifically (they asked if I was dealing with a HDD or SSD... there's no way to attach a HDD to this system, internally) so I didn't get into the business with their being a switch on the motherboard that is causing the issue which has been removed in later revisions... Just stuck to the basics ("I put a drive in the slot and it doesn't work"). They're saying that they'll be able to have a tech here to do the replacement tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.
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    Which test was it? (Fire Strike, Time Spy, ?)
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    Intel is now saying that they're going to have a presentation on their new Arc laptop GPUs on March 30. This will probably be followed by new laptop model announcements from various manufacturers. ...Not expecting Alder Lake HX or Precision 7X70 news at this event, but we could maybe see news for XPS or Precision 3000/5000 systems? Precision "3570" was shown briefly at CES 2022 and it will be available with the new Intel Arc dGPU. [Edit] Found this page on Precision 3570. Not sure how valid these details are or where they came from but it looks reasonable to me. https://www.laptop6.com/us/laptops/dell/precision-3570-(2022)-8850 I've been really curious about Dell's Windows 10 / Alder Lake support and this is the first real hint of it. All of their currently shipping Alder Lake systems ship with Windows 11 only. (I'm still thinking Microsoft may backport some Thread Director support to Windows 10. Dell/OEMs would probably already know of these plans, under NDA, and Dell would be waiting for that to happen before shipping Alder Lake business systems.)
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    I don't think you're alone here. I remember another user complaining about the same thing (over on NBR) early on.
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    Can't actually say. I noticed it a little while after I went to 1.8.0. However, that was the first time that I had tried to use data on the PCIe4 drive today. It could have "broken" sometime in the past four days (I haven't used the PC since Thursday). As soon as I noticed it, I tried swapping the original system drive into the PCIe4 slot... That always worked before, but this time, the system still reported no drive in that slot.
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    Precision 7X30 BIOS update 1.20.1 was posted on Friday, 3/11. From the release notes: - Supports Dell Dock HD22Q. https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=65m8t&oscode=wt64a&productcode=precision-15-7530-laptop
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    Got 1.8.0 installer. Here is a link for anyone who would like to try it out: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsIwJHFk4EFdqJ0KDwOV5rWbuFTx5Q?e=FG2eSJ (Expires September 14, six months.) I can confirm that NVIDIA Dynamic Boost 2.0 switched from "No" to "Yes" on my Precision 7560 + RTX A2000 when I upgraded to BIOS 1.8.0. (Using Dell-provided NVIDIA driver, version 472.88.) Also having an issue with my NVMe PCIe4 drive slot again. Now, it will not recognize any drive, at least not consistently. (Seems like my "fix" did not hold, or a new problem has come up.) I'll be contacting Dell tomorrow to inquire about replacing the motherboard... and in the meantime, I have one of my NVMe drives connected in an external enclosure.
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    That would be basically a glass/semi-transparent top bar (rather than solid) for Windows Vista/7 users.
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    Can you post it? (Or get it to me via PM and I will post it.) I think that the business with NVIDIA dynamic boost is interesting enough to check out. And they are shipping new systems with 1.8.0 so, even if there is some issue with it, it's at least production-ready from that sense.
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    There’s a paper clip sized metal bit thing inside the latch for the hooks to clip onto. It can come loose (…and get lost…) when you are taking the palmrest off. One of mine broke so it only latches on one side.
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    Optimus only works with an LVDS display in this system. If you have an eDP display, Optimus cannot be used and the option is hidden in the BIOS setup. The eDP display will be connected to the NVIDIA GPU and the Intel GPU will be disabled. Quadro P4000 can work in the Precision M6700 with a certain vBIOS applied. @TheQuentincc, you had it working, right? There is a mSATA port (looks like full size mPCIe) so you can install an mSATA SSD as the fourth drive. I believe these are available in capacities up to 2TB.
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    Core i9-12900HX showed up on GeekBench. 8P+8E, 2.5 GHz base, 4.9 GHz boost (or so it appears — that's probably the maximum clock speed that occurred during this run). https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/compute/4414406
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    I'm also greatly looking forward to Silksong; Hollow Knight is one of my favorite games of all time. The "early 2022" window came from an NVIDIA leak which had it pinned for February 2022 (...which would seem to indicate that it is not launching as a Switch exclusive). NVIDIA has said that the leak was genuine but a bit speculative. (A number of games from the leak list which seemed a bit "out there" at first have since released.) In the end, Team Cherry has said nothing regarding the release date other than "We'll release it when its ready". They probably won't announce anything until it is very nearly done. As for why it is taking so long, it seems that the "scope" of this game has increased dramatically from what they had originally envisioned, so I'm thinking that the long wait will be worth it in the end. I'm hoping that maybe we'll hear something around the E3 timeframe (...if E3 even ends up happening this year...). It would not be surprising to have it be announced during a Nintendo presentation, as they did the only gameplay presentation that I am aware of at Nintendo's E3 2019 show, but that wouldn't necessarily mean that it is a Nintendo exclusive. (Recent such example from the leak list: Chrono Cross.)
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    Well, it looks like Microsoft is finally adding tabs to File Explorer. There's a genuinely good improvement. (Currently in preview builds, but only as a "hidden" feature not enabled by default.) https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-finally-adding-tabs-to-file-explorer-in-windows-11/ (I've been using Directory Opus for years so this isn't exactly a draw for me to upgrade.)
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    This page seems to describe how to set it up and how to manage it from GP. Maybe it is disabled in your domain? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/windows-spotlight [Edit] Nevermind, ha, that's the exact same link you posted in your edit...
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    Eh, I've heard other people suggest that Microsoft will start charging a monthly fee for Windows before. I don't buy that. Microsoft knows that general consumers won't pay money to use Windows anymore. If they charge for an upgrade, the vast majority of people just won't upgrade (until they buy a new PC). That's why Windows 10 and 11 were released as free upgrades. Also, PC sales are declining, as a combination of the facts that you just don't need to upgrade your PC as often anymore, and more and more people are just turning to their phone. So, they've turned to finding ways to monetize Windows users to keep a revenue stream coming in. The cycle sort of reinforces itself now. As they roll out more monetizing features, they need people to install them, so the upgrades have to continue to be free for "general consumers". Not that they won't milk money directly out of business users. These days I imagine most medium to large businesses are making yearly payments for their Windows 10 Enterprise deployments. They're trying really hard to get people to move to their "cloud" offerings for Office/Exchange/SharePoint/etc., and that allows them to charge monthly rather than one time for the software. And they've even slashed the support timeframe for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC and Office (perpetual license versions) from ten years down to five, so that it's harder to sit on one version for a long period of time. I don't necessarily blame them. Microsoft does whats in its own business interest. I just wish they'd release a "cut the crap" version (basically Windows LTSC for ordinary people). Heck, I'd pay extra for it.
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    Just leaving these here: Legacy NBR owner's thread — https://www.nbrchive.net/forum.notebookreview.com/threads/dell-precision-7540-and-7740-owners-thread.830037/ Legacy NBR pre-release thread — https://www.nbrchive.net/forum.notebookreview.com/threads/precision-7740-7540-specs-release-date.827802/ Driver RSS feeds: Precision 7740 • Precision 7540 No idea about HD22Q dock. I wonder if we will see similar messages in the next BIOS updates for other Precision 7000-series systems. (They often release these within a few days of each other so we might know soon.) I'd speculate that this is a new dock launching with the next round of hardware in a few months. Maybe that's not even the real model number, it could be a Dell part number a new dock.
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    Link 2022.02.22 = Дата регистрации нотификации / Registration date 2022.03.04 = Дата публикации нотификации / Publication date Also interesting: Precision 5470 and 5570 models (no 5770?), also some XPS, and AMD G15+Alienware systems. For context: Precision 7560/7760 was registered on 2021-03-01, formally announced on 2021-05-11 (with Intel's Tiger Lake H45 announcement), and orderable on 2021-06-15.
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    This just in. Consumer Alder Lake CPUs support ECC memory. (Workstation chipset required.) https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-enables-ecc-on-12th-gen-core-cpus So, it seems likely that there will be no differentiation between workstation and non-workstation CPUs for the Alder Lake HX line. (Alder Lake H CPUs have the chipset built in, so they will not have ECC support unless separate workstation versions are introduced.)
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    Not happening, unfortunately; the mods tried to get them to list all three of the spin-off forums (two of which have since died) but basically no one was able to get any sort of response out of TechTarget during the closure/transition period. This will be reversed soon (efgxt.net pointing to notebooktalk.net, which will be the primary domain for this site).
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    The link I left in the post immediately above lets you see the member list (with a total count) ordered by most recently joined. You do have to dig a bit, but it's there... (I just have this bookmarked.) I hadn't thought very hard about it but you are right, the editorial content (reviews) that NBR used to have probably helped a lot to build the user base up, especially early on before there was so much in-depth tech stuff in the forums. I think that @Reciever mentioned that he has some ideas or plans for a reviews section on this site. I definitely am making plans to take a stab at a professional quality review for the Precision 7770 once it is available. (I was already planning to do this on NBR, before the move.) I think that having some quality technical content will bring in more users over time just as they stumble upon it via Google (I'm talking about in-depth GPU upgrade threads and troubleshooting stuff like we used have at NBR). Getting the momentum going to build up a library of that content will be the tricky part. The old NBR threads will also help out; users will find their way in via NBRCHIVE (banner at the top) ... once it is more well indexed and showing up in web queries.
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    We're getting multiple new members daily (most days). Not really sure how many are fully new or how many are trickling in from NBR. Getting people to engage or stick around is another matter...
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