Dell XPS 15 (Skylake) 9550 Owner's Lounge

Have you tried disabling driver signature enforcement and uninstalling the reatek drivers, then replacing them with the dolby ones? That fixed my problems.

 

Anyone know when the refreshed will be out? Will it be OLED?

 

No.

No.

 

I like to have some headroom as well, but at some point, I wonder if we've hit a practical limit. Why would you wait for web pages to load? Normallly, I'd say that wireless n should take care of that, unless you mean that n will degrade at a far part of your house, therefore the extra capacity of ac would then be noticeable. Most of the time, n works well enough, but I have to agree -- I like the extra headroom, just in case.

My connection now is 700mbps, passing through a couple of walls. That's pretty fast, particularly for wireless! Now, if you copy a lot of files around, you'll notice the difference, I agree. In that case, it matters. I usually use wired connections, and the personal NAS can't keep up with 1Gbps Ethernet. I imagine 700mbps is enough. Oh well.

 

Buddy, what is the difference between ISO in your signature with Microsoft's original ISO? The one from dell includes the dell's driver(?) and that is why we don't want to use it for a clean install. Thanks!

 

Get the Microsoft win 10 ISO, Nlite, Dell Network drivers & Intel Raid drivers as you need these and make your own ISO if you want to
Plenty of guides about. http://www.win-raid.com/t2f23-Intel-RST-RSTe-Drivers-newest-v-WHQL-v-WHQL.html

Mine has no Dell bloatware so I guess it probably is the same as the MS Sig edition but have not looked at the image to know.

 

A refresh of the XPS 15 9550?
Is there a road map?

 

I dont know how big is your house but 802.11AC decrease your range tremendously. If you are streaming movies then N is pretty damn good, I try to stream 4k files and it run just fine. waiting for webpage to load is definitely not a problem of 802.11n but a problem of your ISP, having AC standard wont help. Bassically AC is only good for NAS like you said but is it worth getting AC if you have a big house?

I have a Ruckus R700 which does 802.11 AC, the connection get sketchy, so I force it down to N standard but whatever suit your needs.

 

Ok, gonna need help on this.

1) What is driver signature enforcement?
2) Uninstall Realtek HD Audio (with delete?)
3) Which dolby ones?

Thanks!

 

I need to make a new ISO and combine 32+64bit, I will start a guide that maybe we can get stickied.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/a-fix-for-xps15-9550-sound.789338/

You'll need to begin the process by going to advanced startup options and selecting the boot option to disable driver signature enforcement.

 

Thanks mate. Will try that.


/EDIT
I believe this post issues another sound issue. I believe some people have the realtek driver and still don't have the audio bug when plugging unplugging headphones.

Anyway, I take this Dolby driver fixes the plug/unplug issue

 

It won't hurt to try.

 

Right, I think I have a new ISO almost ready, I just added the ei.cfg to allow home or pro to be selected. I am doing 64bit only as that covers 99% of users!

I will post up a new thread soon.

 

Good work GoNz0 - from the amount of requests on here for clean installs etc it will be very useful indeed.

 

Not to get too far off topic as my whole point was that, at least for me, my factory Dell 1830 is kicking ass. When I upgraded to my Nighthawk from my old N router I went (on 5 GHZ) from steady 300's and bursts to 500's to steady 700's with bursts to nearly 900's. This I get one floor up from where the router is in the basement along with the NAS. I stream movies from the NAS and with the N I would get an occasional jitter or freeze. With the AC I do not. Range is surprisingly good getting in the 300's on the second floor and on the front back porches---with my 1830. My old Intel 7260 in an older machine, not so much. Anyway, like I bet many of us here, I spend too much on this stuff but can't quite help myself.

 

Thanks GoNz0!

 

Close the lid, computer usually went to sleep... But recently (a few days back), opening the lid boots the computer like it shutdown instead of waking it from sleep. Solutions?

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Funny thing, even though I uninstall realtek and install the others, after rebooting I have them both living there (Dolby and realtek). Obviously the same bug is happening.
Dolby Home Theater v4 - Intel HDMI
Realtek High Definition Audio

 

New 1830 Wireless driver release.... fix about Dell mouse lag.... maybe a more general fix for bluetooth trouble ??

 

I've not this bug on a still Dell original install and the updated audio driver. I can plug and unplug the headphone and the speaker will works.

 

I had this exact issue for months, and then it fixed just a week or so ago. It didn't seem to have to do with the audio drivers. I was installing some other driver updates at the time. I think it may be the Intel HID Event Filter driver that fixed it.

 

Has anyone noticed extrmely slow boot up times after the latest Windows update? Since last night's update, my XPS 15 9550 now takes 2 minutes to boot up, compared to 20 seconds before!!

 

nope

 

Anyone else seeing an increase in BSODs or is it just my machine? Up until a week ago I would get a BSOD rarely (less that one a week), now I'm getting 3-4 a day. I have been installing all drivers as they get posted on Dell's website, now I'm starting to regret that strategy.

Blue screens for Kernel Security Check Failure, Bad Pool Header, System Thread Exception Not Handled, something about ILQ not less than something... any idea what driver(s) may be causing these or how I can problem solve?

FYI, I am running with the stock config (I7, 512, 16) and have not re-imaged or changed any BIOS settings. I am usually running attached to the TB15 dock with a Bluetooth mouse/keyboard.

My worst nightmare is having to call Dell service... I'd rather shoot myself.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

Dave

 

had a machine store exception and a critical process died today, each time the laptop locks up for about 20 seconds, then BSOD and fails to find the drive on restart until I shut down and turn on again.

Trying to update various drivers as I never had these before.

 

I would recommend switching to AHCI from RAID and installing the Samsung NVME driver.

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You know, I'm wondering if it could be anything to do with the various Windows updates you are getting. I follow Susan Bradley's Windows Update column on the Windows Secrets website and apparently even with Windows 10 Microsoft continues to send out bad patches that often render otherwise good systems unstable.

 

I have been looking at xps15 for a while. Love the design. But a friend told me that the keyboard and Palm rest so easy to get dirty and oily. It could be a deal break to me. Could anyone comment on that? I don't want to clean it every single day.


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I put a silicone protector over the keyboard

 

Btw I have the premiere backpack sleeve and companion.

And they are all awesome.

But the sleeve is definitely the coolest.

Never seen anything like it.

It may not be long term durable.it's awesome though.

Magnets and rubber and it forms a slanted stand for the laptop

 

Thanks!
Any link to the driver? Also, did you had performance boot so that you are recommending it?

 

Google Samsung 950pro nvme driver

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Exactly the same situation. I spent so much to end up with an unreliable machine. I got a Microsoft signature edition and still have these BSODs. Last week was the worst, I lost 2 hours of work for a BSOD. I clean installed the latest Nvidia driver and it seems that it fixed the issue.

 

I tried a sfc /scannow and it couldn't correct errors, I ended up using the latest techbench iso to get the install.wim (my iso has a compressed install.esd to keep the filesize under 4gb) and doing the following as restorehealth via dcim would also moan about no source files.

1- Create a folder on desktop: mount
2- Copy install.wim to desktop. (used the ISO downloaded from techbench)

Open Admin Command prompt, copy/paste each line and run:

1. Dism /mount-wim /wimFile:%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\install.wim /index:1 /MountDir:%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\mount
2. Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
3. Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\mount\windows /LimitAccess
4. Dism /unmount-wim /Mountdir:%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\mount /discard
5. re-run: sfc /scannow

 

Got the new ISO and instructions. I, for one, am very grateful for your hard work. Thanks again GoNz0!

 

can someone help me here? I recently got the I7 version with 512gb ssd. I meant to do a baseline of temperature before changing thermal paste but I forgot, now I have nothing to compare to stock.

can someone with stock thermal paste (or aftermarket) do a 10 min test of letting heavens benchmark run on ultra setting (AA = off, DX11, system resolution, tess = off) , I like to see what are your result. You dont have to run the benchmark, just have the screen up and running, I like to know your score right after the test, thank you!!

I am steady at 85C GPU and 77CPU

 

your temps are fine, you will find members do not like thrashing the tits off a 2k laptop.

Anyway it will trade off heat for fan speed so you will find most will hit that but the fans will run lower on yours than a stock system.

And to top it off every CPU will bench different so no 2 will have the exact same temps!

 

just want to make sure I actually get something out of the paste...I am thinking about doing Coollabotory Liquid Ultra. If the change from stock to this paste make a difference then from this paste to CLU will be another 5-10c difference

 

you may not get a drop using another paste, just lower fan speeds, only one way to find out!

 

so happy i switched to Killer AC-1535! that dell card is **** ...

 

Why can't Intel or Killer or someone put out a mu-mimo card with connections for our three antennas? Huh?

 

There is one the one in the macbook pro which has 3x3ac. This is also broadcom. I wonder how different yhe hardware is from our dw1830. I have not had problems with the dw1830 btw. Latest driver and all power saving off.

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How difficult is it upgrading the wifi card on 9550? Would you say it's as easy as replacing ram?

 

1 more screw and 3 wires to remove, 2 to fit and one to hide so it can't short the board.

 

Do you have the Broadcom part number? If the form factor is the same, it may work.

 

Gonzo, do you have to install any drivers manually afterwards?

 

I assume so, just download them before.

 

@stamar
"Btw I have the premiere backpack sleeve and companion."

Do you have a link to these? Thanks,
Jeff

 

I use this driver: http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...hpad-ptp-driver-with-synaptics-driver.783990/
Now everything works as desired