Special Edition XPS 8500 SSD access

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• XPS 8500 SSD

  Hello

  I recently bought a refurbished XPS 8500 SE, which came with a 2 TB HARD drive and a 256GB SSD installed. However, it doesn't seem like the operating system is installed on the SSD, so it starts at a speed of HARD drive enough average, which is not what I expected.

  I'm not an expert but I looked around and gleaned that the 8500's SSD is configured to be used as a cache, which is not how I want to use mainly, I prefer to use the SSD as a real SSD drive, so that I can have a fast startup time and also to install important and active applications to it for quick recovery.

  Hey, Osprey,.

  No, Dell did put the score out there, there are a few other threads where to tell the guys at Dell, and it came in the box with this partition on the SSD drive. He has been blocked so that it could not be easily erased.

  But I managed to delete the partition without formatting the drive. I messed with the permissions up to what I've managed to delete and then expanded the other partition on the SSD so that now I have a literally 100% available 2 TB drive and 256 GB SSD is only occupied by all 60gbs. Thanks for your help though.

• XPS 8500 and Windows 8.1

  In December, I improved my 8500 to 8.1 Windows XPS (I got the banner "do you want to level" within the BONE, so why not?) and about 3 days after upgrading my XPS couldn't find the HARD drive.

  After a painful 3 weeks of work with support, receiving 2 recovery USB keys and finally the DVD to reinstall the OS, drivers and software (which have all failed to recover the HARD disk) Dell's Support convinced me the problem was the 8500 with Windows 8.1 for the hybrid SSD/HDD RAID drivers (which I couldn't find any mention of in the literature of the machine when I was doing) the original purchase,...)

  Long story short: Dell Support had me reformat the disk, reinstall the OS, the data has been lost (luckily I backed up to NAS) and finally my XPS 8500 was back running with Windows 8.  I learned to avoid the upgrade to 8.1 "until drivers are available".

  Well, my support is now expired and I don't see any new drivers XPS 8500 available on the support pages.

  Has anyone successfully upgraded to WIndows 8.1 on their XPS 8500 yet?  Are you still running with the hybrid propulsion system?

  Thanks in advance!

  Greg.Fenton

  Has anyone successfully upgraded to WIndows 8.1 on their XPS 8500 yet?  Are you still running with the hybrid propulsion system?

  I've updated all the way to Windows 8.1 update 1 on my XPS 8500 (SSD/HDD + Radeon HD 7870) without any hardware problem. That said, I believe that what can happen is you install a bad driver from Windows Update or too many updates installed at the same time.

  Try this:

  -Install all the updates of Windows 8 except the 8.1 update and hardware driver updates.

  -When the above is complete, install the 8.1 update.

• XPS 8500 - replacement HDD and SSD

  I'm looking to upgrade of storage on my my Dell XPS 8500... My question here is twofold:

  1. I want to replace my current 2 TB HDD (disk storage) with a 4 TB or 5 TB of HARD drive. I will be able to use and see the full 4-5 to? Or is this a case where I will not be able to use the entire disk or will need to score? Y at - it an update of the BIOS that will allow me full access to training?
  2. I am also looking to replace my mSATA 256GB SSD (boot drive) with a 500 GB mSATA SSD... will it be any problem read this disk after installation (plan to do a clean install of Windows and reload my programs)?

  Thanks for your help. Hoping to update soon, but did not buy until I knew what I was getting myself into.

  Its a fairly recent machine with a UEFI BIOS, so it should be good... If you have already upgraded to Windows 10 then your system is already a unit of 10 windows and you should be able to clean the Windows 10 installation on the new SSD. If you haven't you should upgrade now as free upgrade expires tomorrow. #

  You must use the SATA AHCI operation. I assume you have your system already set up this way as you already have a 256 GB mSATA.

• SSD boot drive upgrade for XPS 8500

  I want to add a new SSD 128 GB as boot on my XPS 8500 drive when using my original 1 TB hard drive as a data reader.  Questions: Is there a set of instructions on how to better fulfill the new OS install and configure both hard drives?  Can I do a clean install of Win 7 using the Dell XPS 8500 Windows reinstall DVD on the new SSD? The XPS 8500 supports SATA III drives?  Thanks for any help on this.

  An additional question: the processor can be upgraded (from i5 to i7) using the motherboard the original XPS 8500?

  Hi DoctorDED,

  8 GB of memory is sufficient for a machine dedicated to the photo or video editing. However, if you run multiple applications with a lot of resources at the same time especially treatment image or video, CAD or 3D modeling (for example, Premiere Pro, Photoshop and After Effects), then you will surely be benefited by 16 GB of RAM. With more than 8 GB also comes in handy if you make heavy use of virtualization such as Microsoft Hyper-V or VMWare Workstaton tools, especially if you are running multiple operating systems simultaneously.

  Answer please if you have any other questions.

• cache on xps 8500 mSATA ssd drive

  I had to reinstall windows on an XPS 8500 8.  2 TB disk and disk 32 GB mSATA SSD hidden.  Installed Intel SRT but no option to speed up the drive.  How can I be sure that the SSD is used as a cache drive?

  I have the same situation as you. a cache ssd 64 GB mSATA but no CURRENT ACCELERATION button. My OS is win8.

• XPS 8500 upgrade to SSD

  looking to upgrade to SSD

  found v4 Crucial ssd of 32 GB with support for install

  you wonder if this will be fine as primary drive and keep the 1 TB drive already installed as storage device

  price looks ok

  any advice or assistance would be appreciated

  Do not forget that this system can work at 6 GB/s and the v4 can only run at 3 GB/s so an m4 would be better.

  This system has an mSATA port which is probably unoccupied. Also, I think that 32 GB is too little too small to install a Windows 7 operating system, I managed to install the operating system and office on a 64 GB we (my documents and files are elsewhere) and it is a boost for space; If you can afford it, I'd recommend the m4 SSD 128 GB mSATA: http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=050B0AA0A5CA7304

  Such a small disc can function as a Disk Cache, but it is more worth than his worth to implement.

  For other improvements, see: http://www.crucial.com/uk/upgrade/Dell-memory/XPS/XPS+8500-upgrades.html

• XPS 8500 with full SSD

  I have a XPS 8500 I bought in January of 2013.

  It has a 256 GB Samsung SSD, which is almost full.

  It also has a 2 TB HDD which has plenty of room.

  I get an error message all the time telling me that my SSD or startup disk runs out of space.

  How to free up space on the SSD? I can't find very many programs that take up a lot of space and can not figure out how to clean this drive to make it have more space. I guess that all programs must be installed on the C drive working correctly? Should I uninstall programs have and see if I can install it on the D drive, with more space? I store all my files, such as music and images and documents on the D.

  Any advice here? There are probably 1 million ways to do it better.

  Thanks in advance!

  Version of Windows?

  Is it really to store anything on this great hard drive?

  What generally happens is that Windows stores everything in the 'default' files (for example, Documents, photos, music, etc.) on the same drive where Windows is installed. In your case on the SSD. Then he filled up quickly, but the other disk is empty.

  I recently had a similar problem with a laptop running Win 8.1. Everything was stored on the SSD and the 1 t HARD drive has been entirely unused.  I followed the instructions here to move these files to the 1 t by car and who installs all files and now everything is automatically saved to disk rather than on the SSD and hard.

  The key is that you must create records of 'destination' on the hard disk before tell you Windows to redirect them to this another drive. And don't store everything in the directory root hard disk or you will have a mess.

  In my case, I created folders D:\Documents, D:\Photos D:\Music; D:\Downloads, etc. on the hard drive that has been assigned the drive letter D: by Windows when the operating system has been installed. Then I followed the instructions to move the (SSD) folders from C: to D:.

  Now my 256 GB SSD is less than 1/4 full and all my files are stored on the hard drive. Problem solved!

• Internal XPS 8500 with 1 TB Mini-SATA SSD mSATA

  Hello

  I have a Dell XPS 8500.

  I read the manual and it says that this device can take a drive internal mSATA.

  But, the manual don't did me not all sizes.

  Can I install an mSATA SAMSUNG 850 EVO 1 TB Mini-SATA (mSATA)?

  Thank you!

  Hi nohelphiccup,

  Yes, they all have the same configuration. See this nice thread for installation tips.

• XPS 8700 Special Edition - GPU upgrades

  Hello. I have the top of the special edition line 8700, but I am not satisfied by the gaming performance of the Nvidia 750ti on the high end games. I want to know what cards I could possibly be upgraded on this system. I know that it is a medium-sized chassis and I'm not sure what is the power supply. I would like to know if any of you guys know what can possibly fit into this machine, and if you have upgraded to an another GPU.

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  17 pages for your reading pleasure.

  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3515/t/19611037

  Information on the cliff:

  GTX 960 - good without a new power supply

  GTX 970 - many debates on a PSU update if it is required or not. Just update.

  GTX 980 - fits in some cases cut and an upgrade of the PSU, but gets hot. consider a case upgrade.

  980ti GTX - even as the reason 980 and more for a new case that breathes better.

  I would avoid the high-end AMD cards in the case of stocks due to heat issues.

  And, you can easily sell your 750ti on eBay.

• Chirping noise XPS 8500

  OK, I guess that it is a disk problem, but it could be anything.  My system makes a sound sometimes.  I've not linked iot any specific activity.  Sometimes when I click select in a dialog box, sometimes when I access a partition in Windows Explorer, sometimes, when I don't seem to be actively done anything.

  It is very similar to a baby bird doing a single short trill, crossed with a beep from the computer (the old kind that systems do when starting / days BACK when there weren't so many stakeholders).

  He is not related to the disk activity - I copied large quantities of files, I burned the DVD, I partitioned the drive, with no. or occasional same warning tones.

  I turned off sounds and turned off the speakers - it is not windows, it's the turn of 8500 XPS.

  Looks like it's at the front near the bottom (where the HDD is? maybe).  The system has an SSD of 32 GB installed I've ever been able to access - I think it is configured to be a cache drive in some software Intel preinstalled on the system-= I do not know exactly where (I think under my very large graphics card), but if it's near the front and only accationally wrote in hiding It is possible that things are.

  The HDD also usually light scraping noise as is access to the disk, whenever I have first of all open the windows Explorer, but not for more than a few seconds, so I think it might be normal.  This 2 TB is the largest disc (and first SATA) I've ever owned, so I don't know what's normal quirks are.

  Please help this beep / beep crazy me (well, nuts more than usual).

  Thank you.

  Cynthia

  XPS 8500-2 weeks

  2 TB SATA drive + 32 GB SSD drive

  Windows 7 Edition Home Premium.

  I am happy to say that after 4 days of operation fully windows on the new drive - I have not heard the shrill sounds.  This despite the fact that it is the same drive model with the same revision of the firmware.

  There is a difference.  The old drive, tweet said "Site: SU" said the new, quiet drive ' Site: WU.  As my 10 days are up, I send you the old drive to Dell.  I hope this is the end of this issue.

  Thank you all for your help and your support.

  Cynthia

• XPS 8500 card video, power, upgrades

  I see several threads looking for upgrades XPS 8500 graphics card that can be used with the stock PSU 460w or improved power supply.   However, in upgrading the GPU for this machine, there are a few cards that are not compatible and will result in a black screen.    Even with a correct video card installation, an appropriate power supply and/or upgrade video card fans are going to work, but there is no video.   The problem lies in the BIOS to 8500 XPS motherboard does not recognize the video card and it is a known issue that has carried over from the XPS 8300 to the current XPS 8500.

  There was a video BIOS updates of some card manufacturers to fix this problem for some cards, but there are many old maps that do not work.  The safest bet would be to use a new card with the PCI 3.0 specifications.

  In the sticky in this forum, a link to the current Dell drivers shows the following video cards that support drivers for Windows 8:

  Video

  GeForce GT 545 | GTX660 | GTX555 | GeForce GTS450 | GeForce GTX 590 | GeForce GTX 460 | GTX680 | GeForce GTX 580. GeForce GTX 560 Ti | GTX 480 | GTX690 http://downloads-us.dell.com/FOLDER00753042M/3

  GeForce GT 620 | GeForce GT640 | nVidia http://downloads-us.dell.com/FOLDER00736734M/3 GT640

  AMD HD7570 http://downloads-us.dell.com/FOLDER00746666M/6/

  Radeon HD 6990 | Radeon HD7870 | Radeon HD 6950 | Radeon HD 5870 | Radeon HD 6770 | Radeon HD 5970. Radeon HD7770 | Radeon HD 5770 | Radeon HD 6870 | Radeon HD7950 http://downloads-us.dell.com/FOLDER00749652M/3

  Since it's cards Dell OEM that are supported, there are also specific questions from manufacturer where a given video card model may or may not work according to its configuration.  Considering that an XFX HD 6870 will work in the XPS 8500, the same map made by another manufacturer may not work.

  Please consider this when you do upgrades of the PSU and GPU and, hopefully, BIOS upgrades in the future will answer these questions.

  It would be useful if you have a SPECIFIC card that does or does not, to indicate the manufacturer and the model number full in this thread.

  Operating system information and the Bios would be also useful, and if you use the power SUPPLY Dell or a block upgrade of power.  Specific model please!

  Edit:

  Please include following and other useful information

  Manufacturer number and model of graphics card:

  BIOS:

  Operating system:

  Power supply manufacturer otherwise Dell 460w PSU:

  Compatible: Yes or no

  Original card with the system that has worked:

  I just installed a GTX 970 in my Dell XPS 8500 with questions for the first time.

  It's pieces:

  • Updated my XPS 8500 Motherboard Bios to version "A12" while you wait for my parts arrive
  • EVGA NVIDIA GTX 970 Superclocked Graphics Card (EVGA 04 G-2974-KR)
  • EVGA SuperNOVA 750B 1 750W power supply (PSU) (110-B1-0750-VR)

  Note that I have chosen the 'Return of the fan' version of the card, rather than the version dual fan ATX 2.0.  This is because the design of the housing of the 8500 XPS is not 'Great' traffic.   The style of 'Référence' (shell solid video card with a single fan - which pulls air from the case in... and vents at the rear of the PC) is better suited to the XPS.

  

  Put a new power supply in a Dell XPS 8500 is a little something.   All ATX power supplies were about the same height and width (150mm or 5.09 ") and (86mm or 3.38").    The problem is the depth.   How deep into your PC can reach (extending to the back of your CD/DVD).   Don't forget, you have this tiny USB/headphone jack thing sunk to half way:

  

  I did some steps and realized that MAX PSU depth that would work would be approximately 165mm or about 6.5 ".     It's difficult because I wanted a 750w power supply more power and its REALLY, REALLY hard to find good food slot with less than (180 mm/7.09 "").   And who didn't come home.

  I have scoured every Watt 700 +, 80 + certified PSU carried by Newegg (from 01/12/2014).   Then, I checked cross the specs from newegg for each prospect with the manufacter to audit Web site.  I focused only on PSU at least 8 comments and then only if they have averaged a 3.5 rating (unless the low notes were for trivial things like discount).

  After having looked up the plug on more than 200 of the PSU (over a period of 5 hours), I only came with 5 potential:

  • EVGA SuperNOVA 750B 1 $69.99
  • MARINE RX-1000AE 1000W $119.99
  • SeaSonic SS - 750KM 3 750W $139.99
  • CORSAIR AX series AX760 $159.99
  • Coolmax 1200W ZPG-1200 b $282,35

  I also want to remind the reason why you MUST make sure that your power supply is 165mm or less in depth, and you can't say anything by looking at a a particular series.   Many unique models factory in a series which is just 'smaller '.   You have to look at the specifications of each individual model.

  For example, all except a psu on 700 wats EVGA are (180 mm/7.09 po).  Only 750B 1 is about 165mm.   You will also see that he is a 'Bronze' rather than 'Gold' or 'Platinum' unit 80 +.    I suspect it's "BRONZE" side has something to do with the size.   I they omitted huge heat sinks and a little efficiency to achieve the reduction of 15mm in size.   The quality of the PSU is always more than enough for my needs, and the price can not be beat.

  Now for the installation.   I won't say it was EASY to get the power supply into the case.  I had to unplug all my SATA power supply and cables.  I had to bend the cables on top of ATX case a little, and I had to be very patient reconnection.

  I also had to reroute the wire connecting the top of the case to the Mini PCI (?) card slot.   I didn't honestly it only those who were (they sit behind the rear USB sockets on the motherboard), and they snap on with small quotes as the clichés about the Jeans.  I tried to not interrupt them (because they look fragile), but I accidentally their popped.   Thank God they fix on.  There are even small arrows above each terminal (a black solid, outline to indicate white) so get back you them on in the right order.

  I found it very convenient for stuff a lot of cables in the vacuum "floppy" spot below the CD player.   I also found that I had to plug in the cables in a certain order - because some cables blocked the access to the terminals for others.   (SATA/Power to the CD player, for example is right behind UAP.  I had to do these first, because I would never get my fingers here if I saved that for the end).

  Now for the pre-installation preparation.   I updated the BIOS to A12 and downloaded the installer for the GeForce drivers before moving on my hardware.

  Driver Bios A12 two years ago, but they allowed detection of my GTX 970.  Someone asked me for the version of the drivers, so this is:

  Dell XPS 8500 / Vostro 470 system BIOS
  A12. EXE
  Release date October 29, 2013
  Last updated October 31, 2013
  Version A12

  As I said at the beginning, I was on the A09, but A12 is cumulative and takes you all the way (including all versions in the meantime).

  I uninstalled all my old ATI drivers until I stopped the first time.  I did install the Geforce drivers until after I went on my hardware.  (I wanted just the installer on my desktop - ready and waiting).

  Overall - it worked.  The map spans 2-4 "later in the case, but it fits.  The power supply is approximately 4 "away from the back of the CD, but it fits.   And it starts.

  I just finished playing "Far Cry 4' on the Nvidia setting 2560 x 1080.   The new parameter (beyond ultimate) appeared after I plugged on the map.  I also played Assassins Creed Unity (which is what I chose as my free with the card game - since I already had 4 Far Cry).   The two seem to play 60 fps with no problems.

  Because of the fan on the power SUPPLY and the evacuation from the rear video card, my machine works currently more cool now.

  Hope that helps.   My total cost was about $435.  $349 for the card and $69 for the power supply (taxes extra).

  Sincere greetings,

  Andrew Russell

  P.S. If you have questions about this weird brace to the right of the PSU...   I added a 3rd hard drive under the CD player.  There is only the 'Front holes' so I'm a little creative and put up one of the "PCI mounting plates" from an old ATX case.   I folded the right-hand curve and he the perfect length to attach as a cross tube to keep the hard drive in place.

• Factory setting Dell XPS 8500 32 GB MSATA

  I just bought a DELL XPS 8500 desktop computer refurbished with a 2 TB HDD and a 32 GB MSATA SSD, but I am not sure that hard drives have been configured correctly at the factory.  In the BIOS, the computer is configured as AHCI.  The machine came with Windows 8, which is installed on the 2 TB drive (drive C, entitled OS) and nothing is on the 32 GB disk (K drive, named DATAPART1). the SSD is empty showing 29.7 GB of available space.  The machine is in its State from the factory with nothing else installed.

  Caching is 32 GB SSD configured correctly?

  I tried to looked into technology Intel Rapid Storage Technology, but the interface is not installed on the computer.  If I try to install the latest version of the technology Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver either Dell XPS8500 and site the site of Intel, in both cases, I get a warning that the AHCI driver that will be installed is older than what I currently have installed with the option to install the driver or not install the driver.  If I do not install the driver, the installation stops without having to install anything.  If I do not install the driver, Intel Smart Response Technology is installed, but upon restarting, Windows will not start and I have to restore the computer to its original state.  I tried to change BIOS to use RAID functions and then tried to install it again, but I get a similar warning this time, indicating that the RAID driver that will be installed is older than what I have installed. I didn't want to continue the installation after that I got this RAID warning from my experience when I had put AHCI in place.  I'm for revenue by to AHCI as was the factory default.

  Also, I have two supplementary questions:

  I longingly the SSD to the cache, or booting the operating system, so I looked in install Windows 8 on the SSD, I disconnected the 2 TB drive and started the machine, but I couldn't get the Windows 8 recovery disk provided by Dell to run when the 2 TB drive was not present.  Is it because I'm using a recovery disc and not a true disk of Windows 8, or is this a limitation of the system?

  I noticed that I was not provided with a sticker with my key of Windows 8. I know how to determine the key and have already done.  I was curious if this is correct, or if Dell just a mistake and does not give me the key?

  Hi ekeown,

  I appreciate your efforts to set up the mSATA SSD. You will need to format the SSD drive by following the steps I provided in the following post:
  http://Dell.to/YHvNS8

  You will need to download and install the application of TSRI from our site to download drivers, change the SATA operation setting in the BIOS RAID and activate the acceleration.

  2 TB hard drive contains the recovery partition that accesses the recovery disk to restore the system to factory settings and therefore the option could be used without the drive.

  Product key of Windows 8 is stored in the BIOS of the motherboard and it should be read automatically by Windows Setup.

  Please let me know if you need more assistance.

• 8900 special edition upgrades

  Just buy the 8900 special edition with tuberculosis and SSD hard drives.

  I would like to upgrade the GPU GTX 960 to the 970.  Even if the plug indicates 460W power would work, all other sources, including the NVIDIA said less a Psalm of 500W my question is the 460W can be improved?  If so, all of the recommendations.  The less strain on the supply power, perhaps a 750W?  A PS upgraded and the 970 would in this case / motherboard?

  Yes, you can upgrade the power SUPPLY and graphics card, and IMO, a GTX 970 is a great upgrad.

  Order the thread upgrade GTX graphics card for XPS 8700, since the case is very close.

  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3515/t/19611037

  The limiting factor for the power supply is the depth.

  I have a seasonic X 650 in two 8700 s and it is a tight fit but works perfectly, and with the fan silent, the system is very quiet.

  I would like a link to a few suggestions, but the forum will eventually block my links.

  the EVGA 'G2' or 'GS' models look really good and nothing built by Seasonic tends to be good.

  You will also hear some will get by with the stock power supply, but it's not worth it to me.

• Need help: HARD drive not recognized in XPS 8500

  Hello

  I have a special edition of XP Dell 8500 which worked perfectly until this morning, when the hard drive is no longer recognized.  When the computer is resumed mode standby, the computer froze and after rebooting the main hard drive is more visible to the system at all.  DSS and DVD discs are recognized, but the HARD drive is not.  It's all original parts factory with Windows 7, and nothing in the computer has changed between yesterday and today.

  I am looking for help on solving this problem.

  I tried to change the power supply and the motherboard to hard drive with well-known cables, changing the setting from BIOS of RAID and AHCI, but nothing works.

  Start with a DVD of Windows 7 does not detect the HARD drive at all. Run the diagnostics Dell system via F12 at startup can't find any errors - but also, he does not see the whole HARD disk.

  Thanks in advance for any helpful ideas.

  You have done all your possible - the drive is toast and needs to be replaced.