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.
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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!
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!.
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.
I’ve noticed the same thing on my Windows 7 laptop since the last patch push.
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.
That gif doesn’t look like it’s showing real time. Sped up? Composit?
LOL! Having taught many secure networking classes, we started calling such things from Microsoft "undocumented features" about 15 years ago.
They’re just holding it wrong.
Now that there is funny, I don't care who you are.
Good one!
If they can no longer handle a mouse click, they surely won’t be able to handle graphics hardware.
I think it's real time. From the article, here's the link to the video the GIF was converted from: video on OneDrive
Oh crap, that's not good.
Disco lights... I like it... :-)
Thanks, that’s better. Yep, looks real-time.
I did a full reboot and it’s stopped for now. Crossing my fingers though.
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?
For the Paper Weight of your dreams: US $1,499.00 to US $3,199.00.
BOL!
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?
Actually, that is good. It means the problem is software, and not hardware. You can't fix hardware with a patch.
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