A fix for this issue is now available through Windows Update. Please review the Surface Book 3 Update History page.
Eddy.
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
2020-12-11T16:26:46+00:00 Finding the exact same issue while I type this on my new Surface Book 3. I have 2 external monitors (in extend mode) attached. An interesting thing that I noticed is that I can move the cursor to the other monitors while my laptop screen freezes and they seem to be working normally suggesting that the problem is only with the display/screen of the Surface Book 3.
Once my screen froze completely and did not return to normal even after waiting for a minute until I detached and reattached the screen to the keyboard.
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Anonymous
2020-12-16T18:44:31+00:00 Realweb ApS I believe your solution solved the issue. I have been suffering this power saving freeze craziness ever since I got my Surface Book 3 with Nvidia RTX3000, 1TB storage and 32GB of ram. Screen shot of the settings, I disabled all of the power saving features and took efficiency slider all the way to 1 before disabling all power features. Captain Planet is not happy.
After testing for an hour I still got a few mouse freezes, but definitely less. I have Logitech G603 and G700s mice, with high refresh rate for CAD work. So hard to understand why Microsoft cant get this fixed, they have acknowledged this issue exists already. My Logitech keyboard also had random freezes and repeated keys... Looks like that got fixed as well. Also, I am on the "Best performance" mode on the processor setting.
Please also make sure that both Surface 3 and the new Surface Dock 2.0 has the latest firmware: links below
Download Surface Tools for IT from Official Microsoft Download Center
Surface_Dock_FwUpdate_1.53.139_Win10_17763_20.075.41193_0_AMD64.msi
Download Surface Book 3 Drivers and Firmware from Official Microsoft Download Center
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Anonymous
2020-12-17T02:19:59+00:00 Wow you rock man!
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Anonymous
2020-12-17T08:13:51+00:00 "After testing for an hour I still got a few mouse freezes, but definitely less"
The only workaround for the keyboard/mouse stutter is to use BT keyboard and mouse or HandheldSci BT-500.
Ramping up power use is more likely to generate overtemperature issues of which the SB3 suffers.
David