Solved: Problem went away after I used Magician to update the firmware on one of the two Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SSD. The second one did not need the firmware update. I started the day with multiple cold starts and warm starts with no blue screens. My boot times have been in the 9. x second time frame. I let Support know the status.
I'm seeing an unfamiliar boot sequence for my XPS 8950. I'm not even sure it is a problem but may simply be my inexperience that is confusing me. When I do either a cold start or warm start the screens I see are a black screen, a solid blue screen [approximately 2 seconds], a black screen with the Dell logo followed by the Win11 login screen. It is the blue screen that is new for me. I don't see that on any of my Win10 machines. The XPS 8950 is my initial foray into Win11. The 8950 came with only a 512GB M.2 and no internal drives. Obviously the system drive is the M.2 drive. Onboard GPU, 16G memory. I have since added two 1TB Samsung SSDs. I have switched to AHCI. Everything seems to be working as advertised. It is the blue screen at boot time that is new to me. Is that something familiar to everybody but me? The SSDs are in a package of Dell caddies that have both SSDs in the front cage. The SSDs are in SATA 0 and SATA 1. My boot times are in the 17 second range and based on what is coming up automatically I'm satisfied with boot times. Any feedback for a Win11 rookie?
XPS 8950, unfamiliar boot screen sequence