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May 23rd, 2023 07:00
Dell Inspiron 5680 Upgrading Speed (Intel Optane)
Inspiron 5680
Hey guys,
Someone has asked me to upgrade their Inspiron 5680 Desktop because it is very slow. He is running Windows 11 with 8GB of RAM, Nvidia 1060 GPU, i7 7th gen CPU, and the 1 HDD.
My first two recommendations were to upgrade the RAM and the HDD. I noticed he only has 1 stick of 8GB DDR4 RAM. The service manual shows different configurations and so I thought it would be good to bump him up to 16 GB (2x8GB) of 2400 MHz RAM. I found this one on Amazon: Corsair RAM. and through my research this seems to be compatible.
I'm stumped on something else though, he has a 3.5" HDD and then on the motherboard he has an Intel Optane M.2 SSD but in Windows it is only showing the one C drive with 1 TB on it. From what I've read, the Intel Optane beefs up the HDD to act as a SSD. I am wanting to replace the Intel Optane with a M.2 SSD like I have and make that the boot drive, then have the 3.5" as backup storage.
I'm very nervous about compatibility issues and what the best M.2 SSD is to get. According to the service manual, this is what it shows
RoHe
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May 23rd, 2023 11:00
After you disable the Optane cache, and before you image the HDD, you need to reconfigure both Windows and BIOS to use AHCI because they're currently set to use RAID. This has to be done the right way, or you'll make the PC unbootable.
bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal and press Enter
bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot and press Enter
Confirm everything works properly and then you're ready to image the HDD onto a new M.2 NVME SSD.
Chino de Oro
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May 23rd, 2023 08:00
The linked SSD should work fine with the 5680.
The Optane setup should be your concern. Review the solution at this thread, it will help you with the process of breaking the Optane acceleration.
residentevil35
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May 23rd, 2023 09:00
Thank you. I'll do that then and just unlink it and replace the M.2 and have it and the HDD as his storage, should be plenty.
residentevil35
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May 25th, 2023 07:00
Worked perfectly, thank you so much!
RoHe
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May 25th, 2023 10:00
Glad to help...
Have you successfully imaged the new SSD and gotten the PC to boot from it now?
residentevil35
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May 25th, 2023 11:00
Yes I have. I cloned the HD to the SSD using a software then booted with both installed but selected the new SSD as the one to load. I made sure they were identical, then formatted the old HD.
I made the mistake of leaving it plugged in still since the BIOS didn't give an option for setting the default and I got the blue screen of death.
I unplugged the old HD then just loaded as normally and it pulled from the new one. I repeated the process with plugging back in the old HD and it now works as expected.