surface pro 4 display adapter crash

@ Kent, Yes, The 'standby' battery life is an issue we are working on and have been working on.  We can put the processor into a deeper sleep state than it is currently set to.  We couldn't do it at RTM for a variety of reasons, power management is a very hard computer science problem to solve especially with new silicon.  Currently it is not in the deepest "sleep" that it can be so there are wake events that would not otherwise wake it.  We will have an update for this issue sometime soon in the new year.

One of the ways that you can improve the situation right away is to make sure you don't have web sites open that are actively streaming when you close cover of go put the device to sleep.  Especially if you have a website open that uses sound. This will keep the PLM service running.

To make it really sip power like your pro 2 did.  Pro 2 did not have Connected Standby. It went straight to hibernate or S4.  To do this on your book or Pro4 you can make that happen.

To do this have the device go to Hibernate (deeper sleep and not listening) instead of "Sleep" (always on or connected Standby)  I hope the picture is clear enough.


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Asking over and over for "Joe" (or anyone) from microsoft to reply regarding the known bugs in the SP4 reminds me of Einstein's definition of insanity: "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."  I'm not usually taken to posting anything on forums but after more than a year, and a couple weeks after the SP4 was actually announced, a hardware update finally had my SP3 i7 able to reboot with the type cover folded back.  Loving my SP3 - finally - I ordered an SP4 i7 foolishly thinking it would have the bugs of the SP3 all worked out.  Thirty minutes after receiving my new SP4 i7, I spent 1.5 hours with tech support because windows Hello wouldn't let me use any alternative login, either PIN or Password.  I finally figured it out

• without the help of tech support - that Hello requires you to turn the computer away from your face in order to get access to the alternative login options - great security feature microsoft.  Of course the tech support guy couldn't fix anything after doing surface scans taking control etc.. He was very sympathetic as a surface user himself.  The final suggestion was doing a complete reset of the device which seemed to solve the login issue as long as I didn't set-up Hello initially and I could then enjoy the set of features succinctly outlined in the posts above.   What a great out-of-the-box experience Microsoft.  I wonder if any of the surface engineers are surface users?  If so, then perhaps they can provide all of us some guidelines as to how we should be using the Surface Pro 4.  Clearly, I'm using the SP4 incorrectly and continue to do so.  This is the only logical conclusion given that the surface engineers have never noticed any of the bugs that we all enjoy daily and hourly.  So, I've returned my SP4 i7 due to hardware defects which is the only explanation I had for the features we are all enjoying so much.  However, for some reason, believing that the first i7 I received was defective, I've ordered another.  I guess Einstein is right.  I'll know after the December 18th ship date.