On my SP3 i5 running Win8.1 after applying the firmware update, the Audio stopped working on the monitor connected over a mini display port to HDMI Adapter connected to the docking station. In the event log I get critical errors:
I’ll show the original German phrasing and my own translation.
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DriverFrameworks-UserMode
Event-ID: 10116
Das Gerät "Microsoft Docking Station Audio Device" (Ort "0000.0014.0000.002.005.000.000.000.000") ist aufgrund eines Ausfalls eines Benutzermodustreibers offline. Ein Neustart des Geräts im gemeinsam genutzten Prozess wird 1 Mal versucht, bevor das Gerät in den eigenen Prozess verschoben wird. Weitere Informationen zu diesem Problem erhalten Sie beim Gerätehersteller.
The Device "Microsoft Docking Station Audio Device" is because of the failure of a user mode driver offline. A restart will be tried once, before the device will be shifted into an own process. More information will be available by the manufacturer.
After rebooting, I also see an exclamation mark in the device manager for the Microsoft Docking station Audio device. That goes away after a while, but still I cannot select Speakers of the Docking station Audio device in the Audio device chooser of the task bar. It is listed as not connected and greyed out.
I get similar event log entries for "Surface Type Cover Firmware Update", "Surface Cover Telemetry", "HID Sensor Collection", IDs 10115 or 10116. I have not seen any problems connected to type cover, however (I am using the original Surface Pro 3 type cover).
Anybody else with similar observations? Any idea how to fix it? I have already uninstalled the driver (but not deleted it). Did not help.
I had not applied the September firmware update (which was later withdrawn).
BTW. Is there an easy way, to display the event log messages in English on a German system (for the purpose of posting it in an international forum – I want to keep the system in German)?