Surface Laptop 3 - Event 4101 "Display driver igfxn stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

Anonymous
2020-03-11T18:20:46+00:00

Hi Everyone,

Has anyone been seeing intermittent Event 4101 "Display driver igfxn stopped responding and has successfully recovered" on surface laptop 3? 

Tried all the surface diagnostics tools - all clean. Uninstalled device, reinstalled. - no joy. 

Not had the laptop that long so not sure if updating to the latest surface firmware is the cause. 

Not sure where to go from here. It happen maybe once every few days of constant use - very brief display blanking then recovers. 

Is this a driver issue with the latest intel build? Or hardware issue? Nothing else wrong with the laptop.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-30T08:07:36+00:00

    Hello,

    Same problem here

    System-SKU    Surface_Book_3_1900

    Prozessor    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz, 1498 MHz, 4 Kern(e), 8 logische(r) Prozessor(en)

    32 GB

    Windows 10

    Version    10.0.19042 Build 19042

    I have mine connected to a Surface Dock with one external screens. All three screens (including the laptop screen) go black with the cursor still usable for a few seconds.

    System Event Log

    Display driver igfxn stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

    Version    10.0.19042 Build 19042

    THX 4 help

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-11-18T07:15:08+00:00

    same problem here. 

    The machine had been replaced with a new one but still the same error :-( 

    Very annoying...

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-21T13:20:53+00:00

    Any updates on this?  I am having the same issue too.. Tried the outlook hardware acelleration, will see what happens.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-17T09:53:22+00:00

    I have same problem. I thought updating with latest windows OS may resolve - but no use. My laptop is bought just 2 weeks back. :( 

    I hate to reformat the machine specially considering it's setup newly. Also, not sure if this will help. Any help?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-17T10:10:49+00:00

    The last weeks I had almost no issue anymore ... until a week ago. Don't know what changed, but during screen sharing meetings the screen regularly freezes, turns black, comes back on but still freezes my screen sharing and blocks my camera ... * sigh * Will this ever end??

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