This was only happening when I had my monitor connected to my graphics card.
Don't even let SupportAssist do it, I did on my 8940 and it wound up corrupting my BIOS and I had to do a CLEAN install of W11 and chase down some Dell files as well after that.ĭuring my troubleshooting, I did try a using Rufus and experienced the same issue with the screen going blank right after saying "Launching 'efi\boot\boot圆4.efi'.". I would not let Windows install it, but go to the DELL link, D/L the BIOS, and install it manually.
Matter of fact, if you check Microsoft Update in Settings, and the Optional ones, you'll probably see the Dell BIOS there, listed as 0.1.0.8. Could be an old BIOS problem?ĭell for some reason doesn't update the PC's before shipping. Have you run SupportAssist? It checks for D/L's or go to the Dell Support site and sign-in and have it check.
On the Support page for Downloads and Drivers under BIOS it shows the most recent to be 1.0.8. On one of your screen captures above, I notice Dell Inc.1.0.3 after the American Megatrends line (the maker of the BIOS). Were you pressing F12 when the Dell Logo was displayed? Odd that Dell Support couldn't 'fix' that? I'd reference that page above and contact them. The boot sequence screen also displays the option to access the System Setup screenĪll my 3 Dell's here have the Optical drive as the 1st boot device.
The one-time boot menu displays the devices that you can boot from including the diagnostic option. Bring up the one-time boot menu by pressing F12 key.
During the Power-on Self Test (POST), when the Dell logo appears, you can: There is the manual for the 8950 on the Dell Support page under Documents for the 8950.īoot Sequence allows you to bypass the System Setup–defined boot device order and boot directly to a specific device (forĮxample: optical drive or hard drive). That way if no media is in the drive, it skips to the SSD. Set the DVD/CD drive first, and the C: drive 2nd. and a BLUE BAR appears on the bottom and then the Boot Menu. I've got a Dell XPS8940, and like all my other Dell's, to get to the 'Boot Menu', you have to press F12 when the Dell Logo appears. KB 59947: Acronis True Image Linux-based bootable media boots into black screen after selecting any option in the option menu KB 45331: Acronis Bootable Media(Linux-based): Troubleshooting NIC Detection KB 45330: Acronis Bootable Media Does Not Detect HDD, RAID or NIC KB 46250: Acronis Linux-based Bootable Media: Troubleshooting USB HID Devices Detection Issues KB 58006: Acronis software: NVMe drives in RAID mode are not detected by Linux-based bootable media and Acronis startup recovery manager The following links deal with the limitations of the Linux environment / media.
KB 63295: Acronis True Image 2020: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media See KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media The method that you should be using is to create the 'Simple' version of WinPE rescue media on your Dell XPS PC - this uses the Windows Recovery Environment to find device drivers for the devices present on the PC.īoot the PC using that WinPE rescue media in UEFI boot mode, then perform the restore operation. Doing this will restart the PC into a small Linux kernel environment which has a number of restrictions and limitations, including no support for RAID, BitLocker etc. The first comment is to forget about attempting this type of operation starting from the Windows ATI application.
Mason, welcome to these public User Forums.