Surface Pro 3 Blue Screen due to Wifi?

Would love to see an update for NetGear R7000 Nighthawk...

I found a workaround that is as ugly as sin, but it may help in the resolution of this issue if a developer is reading this...  If I can help resolve the issue by providing more details, please PM me and I'd be happy to provide details such as dumps and what I've tried so far...

I've not had any issues with WiFi slowdown, or lack of connectivity after I come back from sleep. What I've experienced is that whenever the system would go into connected standby mode (regardless if it's on a wired or WiFi network), the system would crash with a BSOD and reboot. This would happen multiple times overnight and could be stopped by not allowing sleep, but that's not particularly effective for how I use the tablet (I need it to be mobile). Dump file always indicated PCI bus issue and in particular WiFi driver crash.

Tried numerous things - including not believing it's WiFi and removing all USB connected items, no luck. 

What worked - if I disable the driver for WiFi when I'm on a wired network - the system does not crash when it goes to sleep - been running a whole 24 hours so far without one critical reboot showing up in the event log (and also without losing data that I forgot to save prior to one of these unexpected reboots). I expect to need to enable the driver when I need WiFi, then to disable it before I put the system to sleep - it's a pain, it's ugly, but it will apparently resolve the reboot issue.

My environment - my Primary WiFi environment - Nighthawk R7000 with AC. Using either 5 or 2.4 (or wired network for that matter - being connected to a WiFi AP was not a requirement, the only requirement was that the driver was active). I do have the November firmware installed and all device drivers are up-to-date.

Would love to see an update for NetGear R7000 Nighthawk...

I found a workaround that is as ugly as sin, but it may help in the resolution of this issue if a developer is reading this...  If I can help resolve the issue by providing more details, please PM me and I'd be happy to provide details such as dumps and what I've tried so far...

I've not had any issues with WiFi slowdown, or lack of connectivity after I come back from sleep. What I've experienced is that whenever the system would go into connected standby mode (regardless if it's on a wired or WiFi network), the system would crash with a BSOD and reboot. This would happen multiple times overnight and could be stopped by not allowing sleep, but that's not particularly effective for how I use the tablet (I need it to be mobile). Dump file always indicated PCI bus issue and in particular WiFi driver crash.

Tried numerous things - including not believing it's WiFi and removing all USB connected items, no luck. 

What worked - if I disable the driver for WiFi when I'm on a wired network - the system does not crash when it goes to sleep - been running a whole 24 hours so far without one critical reboot showing up in the event log (and also without losing data that I forgot to save prior to one of these unexpected reboots). I expect to need to enable the driver when I need WiFi, then to disable it before I put the system to sleep - it's a pain, it's ugly, but it will apparently resolve the reboot issue.

My environment - my Primary WiFi environment - Nighthawk R7000 with AC. Using either 5 or 2.4 (or wired network for that matter - being connected to a WiFi AP was not a requirement, the only requirement was that the driver was active). I do have the November firmware installed and all device drivers are up-to-date.

As far as I know, your issue is not related to the r7000. No one else has reported a crash here with that router. I use one myself. Which wired adapter do you have? Are you using a dock? Do you have any VPN software installed?

I agree that it's likely not the r7000.  I use the wired adapter from the dock, however, it will happen if the system is connected to the network via the wired connection through the dock, or if it's out of the dock and using a wireless connection.

I use the standard Microsoft VPN that comes included with Win 8.1, but do not always have it active (in fact, most of the time, it is not active.  Problems occur both if I'm connected to the VPN, or not.

The only thing I can determine from the Event Logs error:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x0000009f (0x0000000000000003, 0xffffe00194218060, 0xffffd00082ef7960, 0xffffe0019fb573c0). A dump was saved in: C:\windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 122214-7062-01.

and the Memory dump error message:

km:0x9f_3_wificlass_image_pci.sys

Is that the problem seems to be originating in the WiFi driver, that it is likely related to the driver being requested to be placed in a lower power state:

DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (9f)

A driver has failed to complete a power IRP within a specific time.

Arguments:

Arg1: 0000000000000003, A device object has been blocking an Irp for too long a time

Arg2: ffffe00194218060, Physical Device Object of the stack

Arg3: ffffd00082ef7960, nt!TRIAGE_9F_POWER on Win7 and higher, otherwise the Functional Device Object of the stack

Arg4: ffffe0019fb573c0, The blocked IRP

If I disable the WiFi Driver, all is good.  If I enable the WiFi driver, the system appears to be able to go to sleep, but then at some later (as yet undetermined) time, it tries to go to a lower power mode and the driver has a conniption fit.

More than happy to provide additional info - especially if it will help ID the issue.

Cheers,

SK