Did you connect the USB-C adapter to HDMI and USB-A (Dell DA20 Adapter, which was delivered with your XPS 17) to your XPS 17? I discovered recently, that the USB-C adapter caused the screen which you saw above with my XPS 17 too. It also caused the behaviour, that the my XPS 17 9710 gets a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION blue screen after waking up from sleep mode when the sleep mode lasts more than 1 hour (see XPS 17 9710 Sporadic BSOD (DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION) after resuming from modern standby mode - Dell Community). So I think, that my USB-C adapter has a hardware failure or the windows device driver has a bug. My XPS 17 works fine with several other USB-C docking stations, so I'm quite sure that the problem is caused by my Dell DA20 Adapter.
I saw this blue screen once, yesterday. Normaly I get the DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION blue screen when I try to wake up the laptop after more than one hour in sleep mode. What do you mean with the "Dell USB-C to USB-A adapter". Is this not the adapter which is delivered with your XPS 17 9710? -> Multi-Port-USB-Typ-C-Adapter DA20 als Mitlieferung für XPS-Systeme | Dell Deutschland
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Posted December 7th, 2021 08:00
Thanks for the reply.
It does not happen to my XPS 9500... if both laptops have the identical issue and the power outage may be the cause.