Surface Pro 4 - Screen won't wake from sleep

Anonymous
2015-10-27T05:32:42+00:00

I received my Surface Pro 4 today and it worked fine. I put it on "sleep" for awhile, came back and turned it on. Once again it worked fine. I made an error and instead of putting it on "sleep" I  hit the power button to turn it off when I finished. Now it won't come on at all. The screen stays dark. If I push the power button I can see lights under the keyboard keys, then if I hit the power switch again they go off. But nothing happens to the screen no matter what I do. Has anyone else suffered from this?

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Anonymous
2016-08-19T19:27:34+00:00

It works fine for me after the Anniversary Update to Windows 10 Pro (Version 1607). It no longer goes into a coma.

I just traveled all week. Put my Surface Pro 4 (SP4) to sleep 10 to 20 times each day, and currently my task manager shows the up time to be 7:21:35:21 - 7 days! It is actually working the way I expected it to when I bought it!

It was such a relief to not be scared to put it to sleep during meeting breaks to save battery when working with my Pen and OneNote. For the past 7 months I've had to have it on power when in meetings so that it wouldn't go into a coma. That was always so embarrassing.

You can update to the latest version of Windows 10 by opening Settings > Update & security > Windows Update, and selecting Check for updates.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-01-12T18:10:22+00:00

    Somewhere buried in this thread was a comment that the NEW driver did not work properly with the docking station and another monitor attached.  Can anyone confirm that, or the opposite? Is the new driver working fine with docking and use of another large desktop monitor?

    If it works fine, great, and thanks. If not, then that could be the reason MSFT is not releasing it yet in updates.

    I'll check this. I have a SP3 docking station at home. As I recall, I have no issues with external monitors directly connected to the SP4 OR through the SP3 docking station with the new drivers, but I will double check.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-12T18:09:02+00:00

    I suggest those who are experiencing this problem who have not yet moved to the Intel display driver "...4352" as explained in Dyndragon's January 7th post seriously consider doing so.  I stressed over this issue for weeks until I decided to go ahead and try it - which I did approximately 10 days ago and have not experienced the wake up from sleep issue even once since installing that driver.  I also loaded it in a co-workers Surface Pro 4 who had been experiencing the same problem, and it corrected it for her as well.

    Dyndragon's post takes you through it step-by-step (with one suggestion Dyndragon may wish to consider as an update to the procedure - if one is not familiar with Windows drivers, they may not know how to get to your first screen shot (which is...Control Panel...Device Manager...Display adapters...right-click on Intel HD Graphics 520...Properties...Update Driver Software) - then carefully follow the existing instructions in the Jan. 7 post, including the text below the final screen shot.  <Dyndragon, I did not include your post in this reply as I did not want to appear as if I were threadjacking or taking over your solution - but I do wonder if there are a few people out there who don't know how to update a driver, hence my reply here...anyway, thanks again, your solution removed considerable stress from my SP4 life :-) >

    And, if you tried Dyndragon's solution and it didn't fix your SP4, I feel for you and COME ON MS!!

    Thanks bud, glad I'm helping somebody here. I don't care if someone wants to hijack my solution and write up!--But, thanks for being courteous. I just want notifications from this thread from people who are complaining that the most helpful solution is to do a 2-button reset to stop!

    New-comers to the thread--please read through at least some of the latest posts to get the idea that the top solution is NOT the best solution!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-12T17:47:07+00:00

    Somewhere buried in this thread was a comment that the NEW driver did not work properly with the docking station and another monitor attached.  Can anyone confirm that, or the opposite? Is the new driver working fine with docking and use of another large desktop monitor?

    If it works fine, great, and thanks. If not, then that could be the reason MSFT is not releasing it yet in updates.

    I found the new driver left an external monitor black (connect via the mini HDMI socket, not Docking station) I rolled back.

    I don't have a MS Docking station but do happily use an Anker Hub connected via USB. However I did not notice if the DisplayLink connected monitors worked with the new driver.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-12T17:15:50+00:00

    FWIW - it seems to definitely be a video issue as reported.

    It seems you can use good ol' ctrl-alt-del and get its attention that way - which is totally useless if you're in tablet mode and the keyboard is left at home.  

    BTW - mine is a Surface Pro 3 with Windows 10 and all updates.  It seems there are better/updated Intel drivers available but you can't install them.  I've been tempted to short-circuit the "protection" whereby the Intel drivers will not install because it recognizes the driver as "proprietary".  I sure hope Microsoft isn't ignoring the older machines because they have shiny new Surface 4 devices out...

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