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Flickering screens turn Microsoft Surface Books into Microsoft Surface paperweights (Ruh-roh!)
The Register ^ | Oct 28, 2015 | Shaun Nichols

Posted on 10/28/2015 9:11:40 PM PDT by dayglored

Redmond confirms display spasm fix coming

People who bought the first batch of Microsoft's Surface Book slab-tops are furious that a glitch causes the screens to flicker.

Microsoft's support forums and the Surface subreddit are filled with folks claiming their displays erratically wink completely on and off. This happens, we're told, whether the tablet is running on its own or when it's docked in its base station.

Microsoft has confirmed a fix is on the way.

"A small number of customers have flagged some issues with their Surface Book," a Redmond spokesperson told The Register. "We are working hard to resolve them quickly and easily with Windows Update."

"Spent about 2 hours with tech support on the phone. All we did was a complete factory reset and reinstall the latest firmware and drivers. One hour later, the flicker started right back up."
While the cause of the flickering has not yet been determined, users have suggested the problem may be related to Hyper-V, as some reported that disabling the Windows 10 hypervisor alleviates the flickering issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: microsoft; surfacebook; windows; windowspinglist
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To: dfwgator
“That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.”

Nice screensaver you got there, Microsoft! Microsoft fanbois would say they're first over Apple with a new feature. Gotta admit you can't get that kind of screensaver on an iPad. LOL!

21 posted on 10/28/2015 10:32:30 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: montag813

One of Microsoft’s engineers in China said “Make dis go right!” to another Chinese engineer. So the second engineer told the crew “Okey-dokey, disco lights it is!.


22 posted on 10/28/2015 10:41:56 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: dayglored
When you go somewhere where everything is "free", it means you're not the CUSTOMER, you are the PRODUCT.

Look around to see who is paying for you to be there. They just bought you.

Yup. Figured that out thirty years ago when I was sitting through commercials while watching TV.

23 posted on 10/28/2015 11:47:34 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: dayglored

I’ve noticed the same thing on my Windows 7 laptop since the last patch push.


24 posted on 10/29/2015 1:56:54 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: dayglored

Ruh-roh is right.

We have a order for one of the new Surface Pros now at work to see how they will work in our Clean Room for Production Order Confirmations (Process step completions) in our SAP system.

We need these so we can plug in a blue-tooth device and have our people use a wireless scanner to scan in the barcodes of the components they are using to build assemblies (stop the fat-fingering process of Batch/Serial numbers).

This thing better not be flickering all over the place or we’ll have to drop the project.


25 posted on 10/29/2015 3:04:56 AM PDT by CapnJack
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To: dayglored

That gif doesn’t look like it’s showing real time. Sped up? Composit?


26 posted on 10/29/2015 3:10:52 AM PDT by Moltke
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To: dfwgator
“That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.”

LOL! Having taught many secure networking classes, we started calling such things from Microsoft "undocumented features" about 15 years ago.

27 posted on 10/29/2015 3:39:54 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Grampa Dave
For the Paper Weight of your dreams: US$1,499.00 to US$3,199.00
Excuse me whilst i go over here and snigger quietly to myself.
The Flickering Screen effect took months to get right,now everybody is moaning! Sheesh.
:)
28 posted on 10/29/2015 3:52:08 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah)
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To: dayglored

They’re just holding it wrong.


29 posted on 10/29/2015 3:56:56 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
> They’re just holding it wrong.

Now that there is funny, I don't care who you are.

Good one!

30 posted on 10/29/2015 6:08:23 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

If they can no longer handle a mouse click, they surely won’t be able to handle graphics hardware.


31 posted on 10/29/2015 6:11:27 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Moltke
> That gif doesn’t look like it’s showing real time. Sped up? Composit?

I think it's real time. From the article, here's the link to the video the GIF was converted from: video on OneDrive

32 posted on 10/29/2015 6:12:06 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: The Working Man
> I’ve noticed the same thing on my Windows 7 laptop since the last patch push.

Oh crap, that's not good.

33 posted on 10/29/2015 6:13:18 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: roadcat
> “Okey-dokey, disco lights it is!.

Disco lights... I like it... :-)

34 posted on 10/29/2015 6:22:27 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

Thanks, that’s better. Yep, looks real-time.


35 posted on 10/29/2015 6:31:55 AM PDT by Moltke
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To: dayglored

I did a full reboot and it’s stopped for now. Crossing my fingers though.


36 posted on 10/29/2015 7:26:40 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: dayglored

The people I work for used to purchase port replicators (dockstations) but they’re expensive and, with model changes that make docks obsolete, a challenge to keep current.

So one of the managers decided to go to 3rd party “universal” docks. I’ve found that the one the chose does this exact behavior from time to time. When it manifests itself all I can do is unplug and go back to the laptop display.

Ain’t technology wunnerful?


37 posted on 10/29/2015 7:28:42 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: moose07

For the Paper Weight of your dreams: US $1,499.00 to US $3,199.00.

BOL!


38 posted on 10/29/2015 7:29:51 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ("If you use FR and don't donate. It is my personal view that you are a Left Wing or Rino plant.")
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To: moose07

Does that price include the damn blue circle showing that your windows 10 pc after the latest update is really really slow logging on the internet?


39 posted on 10/29/2015 7:41:47 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ("If you use FR and don't donate. It is my personal view that you are a Left Wing or Rino plant.")
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To: dayglored
Oh crap, that's not good.

Actually, that is good. It means the problem is software, and not hardware. You can't fix hardware with a patch.

40 posted on 10/29/2015 9:15:26 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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