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December 13th, 2023 16:03
XPS 8950, updates break computer
I am having the same problem as so so so many others. The question is after so much time why is Dell selling computers to customers knowing that as soon as we do the update it breaks the computer? First computer did the updates computer CPU speed stuck at .40 ghz, They sent me a new computer, now that the initial time is up they will not send me a new computer and I am on day 4 of no computer. I have spoken to many technicians they do not even listen to me none of them. Finally this morning I lost it and a tech kinda listened to me but no not really and I am still sitting with no computer and about to lose my job. He just had me unplug my NVIDIA graphics card from the mother board and now my computer went from being slow to so slow its almost unusable. Yesterday tech took over my computer and did a system restore started at 9 in the morning and the system restored finally at 7 o'clock at night. 10 hours to do a system restore that is how slow this computer is. All over dells sight there is issues with the latest bios upgrade to 1.15 conflicting with NVIDIA, but not one technician I speak to addresses this. Finally this morning the tech kinda listened to me and attempted to restore the bios to default settings, but it will not revert. And then he said he would call me back in 15 minutes and that was 40 minutes ago.



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December 13th, 2023 21:26
Exactly which update do you blame for these problems? BIOS or something else?
You could try doing a BIOS Recovery to a prior version of BIOS that worked for your setup. On the XPS 8950 Support page, find the link for System BIOS, and when that opens, click "Older versions":
That will open this list of prior BIOS versions:
Select the version you want and when that new page opens, download the .rcv file (not the .exe file) and save it on an empty 2-GB USB stick, formatted FAT32.
Then read/follow the instructions on the BIOS Recovery page carefully to downgrade to the older version. Probably a good idea to print the instructions out so you have them handy when you run the Recovery.
Obviously, no guarantee that will solve the problem, but worth trying...
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