Surface Pro 4 Screen Shaking/Shuddering up and down while Idle

Anonymous
2017-03-01T08:15:01+00:00

I think I may have had this issue before and it just solved itself. However, my Surface Pro 4's screen has recently began to shake/shudder up and down while it is idle. If I am watching a movie, typing, or even moving the cursor it is fine just not when it is idle. It happened after I needed to render quite a few videos consecutively with Adobe Premiere Pro.

Has anyone else had this issue? Is it a software/firmware issue, or hardware? I am worried that it is going to begin shaking while I am not idle and that will become increasingly frustrating while editing.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-11-01T11:09:47+00:00

    I have got same problems for a few months already and searched solutions on Internet without any luck of success.

    It keeps flickering and once it is heated up, it turns into shaking heavily but the extended screen is perfectly fine. I need to fold it up (or just put it into sleep mode), go for a coffee for about 10 minutes, come back to work and another 20-30 minutes later, same thing happens again.

    Is it designed to remind people not to sit too long??????

    Please release an update for this costly gadget.

    Thank you MS,

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-29T17:17:31+00:00

    It used to be fixed by simply having constant mouse/keyboard input, or putting a seconds timer in your taskbar so your display would never go into the (very constant) flickering.

    But now it consistently happens regardless of updates. It's been gone for several weeks after some updates, and immediatly returned upon other updates. But there has been no fix, and rolling back hasn't fixed anything.

    My keyboard cover also randomly loses contact and my surface freezes up for a bit while it tries to help me by going into tablet mode and back. Power management for USB devices is impossible so I'm having to unplug and plug devices such as audio/midi interfaces after every hard boot.

    I have never had such a terrible experience with a windows device, and I'm done with them.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-25T23:13:06+00:00

    I have the same issue, does any one have fixed it.

    I have to always keep Task Manager running so that screen will stop the shaking.

    In my case if any application is runing and it keeps updating the screen then shaking stops, but if tab is left idle for 3 seconds shaking starts.

    its becoming a nightmare.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-03-01T12:19:03+00:00

    That's good to know that a full reset doesn't work so I won't try that. Perhaps it's an issue with a recent OS update?

    I hope it isn't a hardware issue because I am a few thousand miles away from the nearest place I can get a warranty replacement, until July.

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