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Surface Book 3 Randomly Freezing
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As im working on my new $3500 Surface Book 3 i can't help but be extremely annoyed because the screen/mouse just randomly freeze, usually for about 5-10 seconds then its back to normal. Sometimes it will freeze and i have to hit the power button and that seems to unfreeze it. Very annoying, not to mention the screen dimming and getting bright on its own even though the option for it to do that is turned off.
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Anonymous
2020-12-22T18:25:10+00:00 Mine was 32gb memory, 1 TB, 13.5 inch display. Had msft surface keyboard and mouse (bluetooth) and dock and pen.
Froze with and without dock, keyboard, mouse, pen etc.
I found the perfect solution that fixes it 100%!!!!!! For me or anybody.
I returned the unit and got my money back. It should be an embarrassment to Microsoft that they build this junk.
Maybe the surfacebook 4 will solve this. But I'm leaning to giving up and buying an HP with similar specs (except less expensive). Anybody with experience with HP with comments. Or should I give up and buy an old selectric typewriter??
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Anonymous
2020-12-22T18:13:40+00:00 Mine is the basic 15 inch model, 16gb ram, 256gb ssd no other options installed. Sorry that even replacement didn't solve the problem for you.
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Anonymous
2020-12-22T17:56:30+00:00 Hello, I already had 1 replacement. The issue still persists. I think these are the important variables to consider:
CONFIGURATION
Surface Book 3 with Nvidia RTX3000
32GB or ram
1GB SSD
SD Card installed as means of 2nd backup storage
external Wireless Logitech keyboard and Wireless Fast Polling Logitech G603 mouse
Surface Dock 2.0 (latest firmware etc.)
Does your config match the above?
I still suspect that using an SD card causes issues with USB. Using a bluetooth mouse and bluetooth keyboard does no cause mouse or keyboard freeze. But using external wireless Logitech Keyboard and Mouse does cause freezes since 2 receivers needed for them to operate plug into Surface Book 3 USB ports.
I have tried several different brand new SD cards from Sandisc. Extreme versions, so they are fast. With SD cards out the freezing issue does not exist. I have also tried removing and replacing SD card drivers to no avail. So, if SD card shared the USB bus with external USB connectors this would explain the issue. In fact, a simple experiment of doing a checkdisk on the SD drive will always freeze USB mouse and keyboard momentarily every few seconds.
Im pretty sure Microsoft Engineers are aware of this.
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Anonymous
2020-12-17T19:02:57+00:00 I started posting in the summer when I got my SB3 and experienced the freezing. After working with MS tech support to download diagnostics and updates (they did that virtually by taking control of my SB3), mine behaved better but was not cured. They called back to see how it was doing and after we determined nothing else could be done, they just sent me a new replacement SB3. No problem since. My takeaway is that it's a hardware problem. They are willing to stand by their product and replace it, you just have to spend time with tech support.
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