Re: XPS 8940, locking up/freezing since 2.15 BIOS update

In November of 2023, I made this post to explain issues that my XPS 8940 was having. I rolled back my NVIDIA drivers as was suggested, and that seemed to temporarily fix the issue with hangups/hard freezes. There were intermittent updates to the computer and BIOS which I did update. However, I have not updated the NVIDIA driver, and I don't know if that is causing the problem, and there are now additional issues.

I have a WDC WD HDD 500 GB storage that is supposed to be an F drive that the computer no longer recognizes. It just doesn't exist any longer. The computer takes minutes to restart and start instead of seconds and I imagine that's because of the issue with the drive. The hard freezes are back despite the fact that I have not upgraded NIVDIA since rolling back.

I tried to do a memory test using the windows memory diagnostic tool as was suggested in the comments of my previous post, but it was like the computer froze as there was no activity after 20 minutes or so, I had to hard reboot and then got an error of "windows failed to start" in black and white. after I hit enter, the computer started normally.

I don't know what's going on, but it's insane to me that the hardware could be degrading this quickly. Is there anything I can do to diagnose the computer, or can anyone tell me what might be going on?

Again, here are my hardware specs:

Windows 11 Home: Version 23H2 (Build 22631.3235)
XPS 8940

11th Gen Intel Core 17 - 11700 2.5GHz 8Core

32G RAM - NVIDIA GeForce 3060 Ti
BIOS Version 2.17 12/11/2023

NVME WD BLACK SSD 1000GB main drive

WDC WD SSD 1000GB 2nd drive

WDC WD HDD 500 GB storage

Thank you for any help you can provide. This has been an ongoing issue for a long time and I am growing increasingly frustrated and don't know what to do anymore.