Dell Studio 1555

Hey guys,
I have just received my brand new Dell Studio 1555 with the HD4570 512MB.

I have just formatted-reinstalled Vista 32bit ultimate SP2 but I can't install the Catalyst 9.5 using Mobility Modder...
The program doesn't support our card as you can see:

http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php


How can I install the Catalyst 9.5?


Thank you

 

32Bit?
Try these:
http://depositfiles.com/de/files/eeq9enz3a

Found them here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=4876884

 

guys,

vista64 bit, does it have compatibility issues wid softwares or games? old games maybe.
this sales guy i talkd to, was discouraging me for vista 64...telling that every software shd b of 64 bit and it mayb a prblm, and getting 64bit software. i argued that everyone uses it and we can get 64 bit s/w from net, cant we... but he wasnt that happy with vista64bit compatibility. i'm going for 4GB ram so i thot of going for vista64. any comments?

Regards,
Abhishek

 

I wouldnt worry about old games playing on the vista 64 played battlefield 1942 and a bunch of other old games without any problems at all.

 

is it easy to change the cpu on the 1555, i mean fo you just undo a few screws to access the motherboard? I planning to get the base CPU as I have a P8600 that's been sitting on my shelf for a couple of months.

 

i got my laptop today.. just have used some half hour..
Monitor is SEC 5441
Sound is bad.. have not adjusted any settings yet..hope it improves

 

Thanks for the links

 

Fear unfortunately has problems under Vista 64

 

32 bit...
Thank you very much!
I'm gonna try them!

 

hunter - what do you mean by bad?

Ichiban - Getting to the CPU is not easy. You need to take the motherboard out of the chasis to get to it. There is a Dell manual with details. I am planning on doing it when it arrives so will let you know how I get on

My tracking status is just saying CALL LOCK OUT, god knows what that means, damn walsh western

 

mine just said that and then got call, getting delivered on the 16th

 

Cheers ninja2000, hopefully you get yours soon as I need to order it b4 the 17th when the 10% voucher ends.

btw is the height of 15.6" screen the same as the 15.4"? maybe the extra 0.2" makes it look shorter.

 

yes, i think its a brilliant laptop, very good quality and excellent price/performance buy.

 

http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/...009/06/02/dell-windows-7-upgrade-program.aspx

No one seems to be waiting for this supposed free/cheap windows 7 upgrade that is rumoured to be in for the offering sometime after 26 June or 1 July or whatever. I.e. many of you seem to be buying the laptop now, precluding yourselves from this "upgrade" option.

Am I missing something?

i.e. do none of you (who've now bought the laptop) care too much about windows 7?

Or is the laptop so good, you can't wait?

 

the sound is not loud enough.. when i play a video, its sound is very low..like half of what i get while playing a music mp3 file..
mp3 sound is louder..but not clear.. its my first laptop and none of of close friends have a laptop.. so i don't know how loud the usual laptop speaker is..
maybe some1 else can tell ..

isnt' dell 1555 supposed to have "Integrated Stereo Sound with subwoofer"
because i couldn't say the presence of subwoofer.. it was not even close to my normal basic creative 2.1 speakers wit low bass..

i came to know about it only after 2 days of placing my order.. if i knew i would have waited..its just a month.. i have tried windows rc1 on my P4 PC..

 

@ rocker_geek
did u get your laptop..??
even your bluedart status was same as mine.."Linehaul Delayed; Accident/Traffic-Jam - Contact Customer Service"

 

UPS is needed instead of Blue Dart.

 

Mine said call lock out , i phoned them earlier, they told me that they were still waiting for the delivery from dell to them, then id get my delivery date.

So im guessing thats what it means. i got my date of 16th today couple of hours ago

 

Free upgrade to W7 wasnt the reason for buying...or waiting to buy. I personally bought it because my old died at that time and it was the best deal out there...

 

lucky me:

2:45:04 PM CA SALES xxx We have some technical problem so your order was canceled
2:45:16 PM CA SALES xxx I will reinstate the order for your right away
2:45:29 PM CA SALES xxx and also put an expedite request on your order once it releases into production
2:45:44 PM George but it was on production
2:45:52 PM CA SALES xxx yea
2:45:56 PM George since June 3
2:46:04 PM CA SALES xxx Due to some technical reason it was canceled
2:46:20 PM CA SALES xxx So from now one I will have an eye on your order until its shipped
2:46:35 PM George and how long it will take?
2:46:44 PM CA SALES xxx Give me a minute
2:46:52 PM CA SALES xxx while I give you the new order #
2:47:04 PM CA SALES xxx 06/28/09
2:47:15 PM George what?
2:47:21 PM George it was 15th
2:47:25 PM George i cannot wait that long
2:47:34 PM George I want to cancel my order if it's like this
2:48:05 PM CA SALES xxx yea it was 15th but was canceled due to technical issues
2:48:14 PM George what technical issue?
2:48:24 PM George if it was in production it cannot vanish
2:48:30 PM CA SALES xxx For this inconvenience we will discount your computer with $ 10
2:48:37 PM George lol
2:48:43 PM George i don't care about discounts

 

Just received today...
Everything was fine.

I decided to format and reinstall Vista 32 Ultimate SP2 but once I finish the VGA card (4570 512MB) is not recognized...


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I tried to install the Catalyst but the driver cannot be installed because "Impossible to boot up the peripheral (code 10)"...

Is that broken or what?


edit

I fixed it... we are obliged to install Dell's graphic driver...

Once installed, Is it possible to unistall and install the Catalyst 9.5?

 

yeay i got my call too! 16th for me also.

Ichiban I have the CPU sat here ready so will do it ASAP, might try and take some photo's for you in case it helps.

 

I should be ok, I probably need to take pictures of the components and cables before removing them or else I won't remember what goes where please let us know how you got on, oh and also what wireless card did you get with it? I might buy the Intel 5300 and upgrade it myself but not sure if the laptop will have the extra antenna which the card needs.

 

what brand is the firewire chipset?

could someone run DPC Latency Checker ? http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

thanks

 

I kept the basic dell wireless because

a. dell charge a fortune for the 5300, you can pick them up for less than half the price

b. I have a 5300 sat here ready with my cpu

It does come with the three antennas pre installed into the chasis

 

new to this thread looking to purchase this laptop next month after the windows 7 coupon comes out. I'm Upgrading from my Dell Inspiron 9200 that i bought back in Dec. 2004.

Quick question the upgrade to the ATI graphics 256 or 512 is for purely gaming? Or does it offer better display of colors/video for the computer? Im asking b/c I'm not a PC gamer anymore and do all my gaming on my PS3.

Anything wrong w/ sticking w/ the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD? Is this graphics card better than my current 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9700?

 

if you are not a gamer you will get no benefit from upgrading 256 to 512mb

There is nothing wrong with the intel if you plan to do no gaming. I think the GMA4500 can even handle blueray.

The ATI is better for playing HD content though so if the upgrade isnt too expensive you might want to consider it.

A pro of the intel GMA is longer battery life

 

thanks for the quick response. Its either the inter GMA or the ATI 256. Not sure how important HD content is for me. Would I be able to handle youtube, vimeo, and hulu content that is in HD w/ the intel GMA??? Since it can handle bluray which is Full 1080p that should be a breeze right?

 

Thinking about it, I am need to check the gma4500 for bluray, apparantly you need the 4500hd, I am not sure which version the 1555 comes with. will check and get back to you.

Edit - I cant see the GMA listed anymore on the uk site to check

 

Dell lists it as the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD on the US site. not sure what the MHD stands for though.

 

mobile high definition. This is the one needed for bluray etc. therefore you should be fine for all formats you listed

 

I would at least get the ATI 256. It will speed up the whole computer.

 

really? how big of a difference?

I plan on getting 4GB of Ram and really can only get one upgrade. Its either...
256 ATI Card ($75 upgrade)
2.2 T6600 ($50 upgrade)
9 cell battery ($40 upgrade)
900p HD display LED ($50 upgrade)

Like I said I dont plan on playing games. Just want get fast performance best bang for my buck.

 

Video cards make a huge difference. Without, all video memory is taken from the ram I believe... so you lose overall system performance. By having dedicated video, the system as a whole works better and graphics will be dramatically better. But then again, if you really don't need it.... no sense in doing it. I would say the average consumer wouldn't need it......

 

Your system will not be any faster overall with the ATi card. The Intel 4500MHD, as has been mentioned, is sufficient for HD video decoding. If you don't plan on gaming, I would get the 4500MHD, simply because you gain significant battery life over the ATi 4570. If you don't game or use 3D applications, then you will gain nothing from having the ATi card over the Intel integrated card.

As for the RAM being shared, it's true, but it won't all be used unless you're doing anything graphically intensive. If you have 3GB or more of RAM, I guarantee you will never notice the difference.

Personally, if I were you, I would get the 4500MHD. It will save you money and your battery will last longer, and your system will perform pretty much the same in everything except gaming. From your list of upgrade choices, I would get either the 900p display upgrade, or the 9 cell battery. If you combine the 9 cell battery with the Intel graphics, your battery life will be through the roof.

 

It would probably be better to get the 900p display and order the better 9cell when you get the money.

 

I am finding the fan slightly annoying. It comes on randomly even when all I am doing is web browsing and the sites (forums and news sites mostly) aren't really JavaScript or Flash heavy and it's winter here in NZ. I think the low hinged screen, 1080P resolution and dedicated GPU are all part of the problem. It might even be the Windows indexing but I doubt that as I don't really see a lot of disk activity.

With the 9 cell battery getting 4 hours of battery life was very easy. You might even be able to eek a lot more by lowering your screen brightness. Still haven't tried any games.

The softkey keyboard took some time to get used to. I have to say that the W, E, A, S, D, F and X keys don't feel as good as the rest of the keyboard. They make more noise than other keys and it might be because of keyboard flex in that area.

I have also formatted the laptop and installed Windows 7 RC 32 bit. Windows 7 detected everything out of the box. I manually updated the Synaptics drivers, ATI Radeon and Dell Bluetooth drivers. The Synaptics driver from their website is much better than the dumbed down driver that Dell ships. The laptop gets a Windows 7 Performance rating of 4.9. CPU: 5.8, RAM: 5.9, Graphics 2D: 4.9, Graphics 3D: 4.9, Disk: 5.9.

My laptop is: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, 4GB G.Skill RAM (self upgraded), Toshiba 7200 RPM 16GB drive and of course Radeon 4570 256MB.

 

The fan should not be that annoying. I mean the only time i hear it running is when i play some games. It definitely does not come up when i am browsing or doing office chores.. The ambient room temperature in here is about 28~33*C.

Anything got loosened up when u installed the extra RAM? Check out for that.

 

Thanks for the help. Now I will definitely not upgrade to the ATI 256MB. And if i get better battery life w/ the 4500HD I probably will get won't opt for the 9 cell but instead will upgrade the 900p LED screen instead. I'm assuming the 2.2 T6600 won't be a huge difference from the 2.0.

Just curious how many hours of battery life would you estimate I will get w/ the 6 cell running the 4500HD video card?

 

Interesting the ambient temp here is less than 20C. I am sure the RAM upgrade is quite simple and nothing is in the way when you open the back panel.

What is your configuration hardware wise ipkonfig?

 

One a side note...

Does anyone know how I can enable middle-button click with the Synaptics driver? The Dell driver had less features but it allowed me to click both buttons to simulate a middle-click. I couldn't find any option to turn that on in the generic Synaptics driver. There must be a way to get back that option.

Edit:
Nevermind: Google found the "HasBothButtonFeature" registry key, which enables the middle-click.

 

I can barely notice a difference between my old 2.0GHz and my current 2.6GHz processor, so 2.0 to 2.2 will be nothing if you're not doing hardcore program compiling or anything like that.

My Studio 1535 with the ATi 3450 and 6-cell can usually pull just over 2 hours with some modest setting tweaks. I would bet that the 1555 with the 4500MHD can do 3 hours, possibly more if you undervolt. Of course, don't quote me on that.

 

Yeah I got it last night. They delivered the thing on 7:30 PM and that too after several calls. That fa**ot delivery person didn't know the way to my home in Electronic City, I had to call and guide him. Who the hell employed him?

Blue Dart really sucks ..

Laptop is nice btw Typing on it right now

 

wow the 1535 only gets 2hrs with the ati! I was expecting at least three hours for the 1555 with ati and 6 cell! And was expecting the 1555 with intel to have about 4 hours.

My samsung q210 does 4-5 hours with 6 cell on power saver and that has:
P8400
nvidia 9200 gfx
320gb 5400 hd
3gb ram
5100 wireless
bluetooth
12" screen

 

P8600, 3GB RAM, 512MB GPU, 5400RPM 320GB. I am always on AC power.

 

You could have visited the office and got the product for yourself. At least that is what i did. I couldn't resist the temptation to hold the laptop on my hands, so was literally flying to the BD office when i heard it had arrived

 

Some questions about my 1555:

- What for is the 39MB FAT EISA-Configuration Partition?
- When I activate Intel VT in BIOS, does it use more battery then? And is the performance decreased for other applications when not running a VM?

Some weird services running:
- I got this service running: " AEST Filters - Andrea ST Filters Service"
What is that? Do you have that also?
- " Dock Login Service" What is that for?
- " Seaport" Service ?!

 

Does anyones power brick get so hot you almost cant touch it? Mine does.

 

is the "CREATIVE Sound Blaster(R) X-Fi MB Audio Software Solution " which is charged for while buying, same as the one in this link
" Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi MB"


If not.. can anyone post the link to download the trial/full version of the software..

 

Order date June 5th.
Shipped on June 13th.
I thought this would take more time. Now see how long it takes to actually deliver the laptop in Belgium. Any idea?
Expected delivery date is June 22nd but can hardly believe it would take 9 days to ship from Poland to Belgium.