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Interestingly, I received the replacement SP3 and it is from an earlier lot than my original. When I turned it on, it seemed to already be setup for an administrator user but said permissions had been revoked. So I rebooted and it let me in anyway, then I ran a full factory reset. After that...

Personally, I think the Photoshop 200% scaling feature is too much and should be something more like 150%. Better yet, give us a choice. 200% scaling makes things far too large on the screen and leaves you with little drawing space, while the default 100% scaling makes all the icons way too...

What I have done prior to a factory reset is move the various document, pictures, videos, etc. folders to the OneDrive folder. It's a bit tedious but not really all that bad. For each folder I want to store on OneDrive, I right-click on it and select Properties then go to the Location tab. The...

So far, I'm not having any trouble with the Intel drivers, even on this machine which is awaiting a box to be returned. I have two external monitors hooked up and am using those plus the Surface's own screen. The update went without a hitch (unlike today's MS updates) and all is well thus far...

Yep.

I've installed it on my i5 256GB SP3 and it's working great. Haven't done anything crazy with it but install was smooth and no problems. I have two external monitors hooked up (via the dock) and it does seem like they are a little more crisp than they used to be. But I don't have any proof of...

The link to the article works fine for me. However, here's a link to the 64-bit drivers: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=24245&lang=eng

I'll give it a shot. I've got nothing to lose, since my advanced exchange unit is on the way here...

As usual for my SP3, it locked up during restart (hence the exchange). After a forced shutdown and restart, it is currently installing the updates.

Yep, downloading updates on my RMA'd machine right now as well (Oregon USA). Will see how it goes...

Thank you. I was surprised because at first there were no issues whatsoever. But as time went on, the problems started and became more frequent. I still love my SP3 and look forward to receiving the new one.

Update: at first, the factory reset was great. After a few days, however, it started locking up more than ever before. This morning I started an advanced exchange from Microsoft and am now awaiting the arrival of the new one. Since then, this SP3 has given me a blue screen, then forced itself to...

Aside from the battery issues with Chrome, I prefer the metro version of Chrome. If you aren't aware of this feature, click the menu icon in Chrome, then click "Relaunch Chrome in Windows 8 mode". I like the icon bar at the bottom of the browsing screen, as I use Chrome's bookmark bar quite...

For years now and owning various smartphones, tablets and now the wonderful Surface Pro 3, one ongoing irritation has been the lack of a disk activity light. I've gotten used to the ability to ensure something is truly happening by looking at the physical drive light attached to most PCs. It's...

I tried doing a refresh, but started having lots of trouble. Lots of locking up, strange behavior with programs and instability. So I chucked it all and did a full factory reset. Once it was back up in running order, I started installing updates. I started by carefully only installing...

No modifications at all.

Further looking in Event Viewer shows: 8/29/2014 9:06:57 PM: An error from "ACPI" and the message, "The embedded controller (EC) did not respond within the specified timeout period. This may indicate that there is an error in the EC hardware or firmware or that the BIOS is accessing the EC...

MEMORY.DMP shows: BugCheck 9F, {3, ffffe00006a68b60, ffffd00088e7b930, ffffe00006aec820} Probably caused by : ACPI.sys Followup: MachineOwner

You just reminded me that I do still have a Nexus 7 tablet. I've had my SP3 for nearly 6 weeks now, so I guess it's a safe bet that the Nexus is no longer needed.

In our homeland no less.