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Hmmm, maybe I'll take the plunge. Losing Standby/Sleep would suck, but they never worked that well on the SP3 without serious fiddling. Any recommendations on the Win11 installation?

Did you force install Windows 11? Didn't know the old SP3 supported it.

@GreyFox7 made a great suggestion which truly can clear up many battery issues. I still use a SP3 (i7-4650U) as a daily driver, but it is getting a bit long in the tooth. I can still get about 3 hours on battery with the system tweaks I've done and if I turn down the performance. Over the...

As much as I like my SP3, they are really starting to show their age. First is the aging battery, my old girl only gets about 3 hours under the best of conditions. Second is the intermittent System Interrupt hardware bug that rears its ugly head from time to time that further murders the...

Correct, but I was hoping your problem was related. I find the problem you are having bizarre. Outside of an intermittent hardware failure (the worst kind of thing to debug without taking it apart) I am starting to wonder if this is a firmware update gone bad.

@tdub4: If I am catching you before you do the reinstall, I had a similar problem with my SP3 dock a while back. Here is a basic checklist of what I did... Definitely do a backup if you haven't done one in a while. Unplug from the dock and use external power. Sign-in with a local account with...

If you are having battery age issues (as in it won't turn on unless it is plugged in) that could lead to shutdown problems when the system tries to draw too much power (through the battery from the transformer). Another possibility is that if you are using the USB charging port on the external...

Always a handy link... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Did you check to see if the connecting ports and pins are clean?

Sooo, I can't seem to turn on Windows 10 Pro 20H2 - Windows Security / Device security / Core isolation because my Intel graphics drivers on my Surface Pro 3 are not compatible. :confused: Windows Update is all up to date and there are no optional updates. Anyone using newer drivers or...

I think you have the right idea that you need to test another keyboard with the system. If you don't want to buy another new / used keyboard to test, you might be able to find a local computer store that will allow you to swap a keyboard just for testing purposes. Or perhaps you could find a...

Hmm, I wonder if your devices got disabled somehow. Try this... Right Click on the sound icon in the lower right Taskbar and then Left Click "Sounds". On the Sounds dialog box that opens, Left Click on the "Playback" tab. If you don't see any devices in that list, then it is highly likely this...

Love the Surface Dial, but I have noticed that after I add settings for Google Chrome, they don't show up in the App tool list. Now I can't change them for Chrome. Anyone else experience this or know how to fix it?

Ugh, I ran into this boot the boot loop problem. So damn tired of this.

There are times I need audio and this problem rears its UGLY head again. I'm still having the high "System interrupts" percentage issue when Cortana is turned off and thus have massive battery drain even when the system is plugged in! I've tried many of the latest drivers for all my audio...

Ugh, this problem is still lurking on SP3 hardware. Pressing the K810 Caps Lock causes a slight stutter in Bluetooth mouse movement and Bluetooth audio. Pressing it repeatedly causes a full blown Bluetooth lock up for a period of time, seemingly relative to the number of times Caps Lock is...

Was this problem solved with just a new battery in the pen? I've tried all of the above suggestions, all of these suggestions and replaced the batteries with new ones but still no joy. This seemed to happen after the 1903 update :mad:

I never found a proper fix for this. A complete reinstall of Windows (1803) with latest audio drivers does not work either. I finally just went into the UEFI settings and disabled the onboard audio hardware completely just so this bug and Cortana won't eat my battery for no good reason. This is...

Do you mean this?

Have you tried running the troubleshooting programs under Settings / Update & Security / Troubleshoot: Internet Connections, Network Adaptor? Or this?