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November 27th, 2021 10:00

XPS 17 9700 SupportAssist OS Recovery crashes

Since updating SupportAssist last week, SupportAssist OS Recovery will not load from BIOS.

A blank, light-blue screen is displayed for about 10 seconds before the computer shuts down and stays off.

My configuration is as follows:

  • DellInc.DellSupportAssistforPCs 3.10.7.0
  • Dell SupportAssist Remediation 5.5.0.16041
  • Dell SupportAssist OS Recovery Plugin for Dell Update 5.4.1.14954
  • SupportAssist OS Recovery Tools - - 350.00 MB - Critical (November 18, 2021 - version ??)

Thank you and good day.

  • XPS 17 9700  - i7-10875H  - HyperX DDR4-2400 (2x16GB)  - 970 Evo Pro 1TB
  • Microsoft Windows 10 Pro  - 10.0.19044 Build 19044.1348 (21H2)  - BIOS 1.10.0

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December 9th, 2021 06:00

I'm suspecting that this issue is related to the Bitlocker boot-time PIN requirement that I have recently activated.

The first indication of this is that the light-blue color of both the PIN prompt and blank screens are the same. I had initially assumed that the blank screen was SAOS Recovery attempting to load b/c of it's similar-but-different shade of blue. Both screens also exhibit the same timeout behavior, where the system shuts down after about 10 seconds of keyboard inactivity.

I suppose I could try inputting the PIN into the blank screen.

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November 10th, 2023 17:39

This is 100% bitlocker conflict. Dor some reason the bitlocker recovery is activated and doesn't display any graphics like words and input bar. I could get the graphics to display if I ask to reset through supportassist. After I could get pass the bitlocker recovery my OS recovery still crashed on loading the program itself. I will try to remove bitlocker encryption now and see if it loads everything in one go.

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