Mind you, I was also using a USB DVI adapter on the SP3 dock since there was only 1 mini DisplayPort on that dock.īefore I go take my dock back from the above developer or go about ordering a USB DVI adapter, has anyone seen this behavior? I'm running Windows 8.1 on my Surface and am thinking about updating to Windows 10 but I have a feeling I'll have the same display issues running 10. What's funny is on the old SP3 dock, I had it set to where one display would duplicate the Surface display and the other was extended no issues. No matter what I set this as, I cannot set either one of my external monitors to duplicate with the Surface display. To attempt to fix #1 from happening, I figured I'd set one of the external monitors to duplicate with the Surface display. This one pretty much goes hand-in-hand with #1. When I come back to my desk after an extended period, both external monitors (or sometimes only 1) are set to disconnected while the Surface display is now reconnected.Ģ. In other words, if I'm connected to the SP4 dock, I usually have it set to where my 2 external monitors are active while the display on the Surface is disconnected (for obvious reasons). If I leave my desk for an extended period of time, when I return to my desk, my display settings have completely reset. However, 2 things happen that I can't seem to figure out.ġ. Weeks later, the developer reaches out and states that he's got display issues that are hindering his day to day work so out of the goodness of my heart, I decide to let him have my SP3 dock and I take his new SP4 dock and set it up on my desk to troubleshoot and figure out what's going on.Īfter upgrading the dock firmware, updating my Surface firmware, and updating Surface drivers, I've finally got my external monitors working properly. No problem, it works with SP3 so I purchased it and set up his desk with it.

Of course, they don't have the dock I have in stock anymore it's since been replaced with the new SP4 dock. I setup the SP3 for the developer and go out to purchase a dock for it. Recently, we had a new developer come on board and I was told to set him up on a Surface no problem since I had a SP3 sitting around that was earmarked for an upper management user who ended up not needing it. So I've been using my Surface Pro 3 with the old Surface Pro 3 dock for well over a year with little to no issues with the dock.

Microsoft display dock for surface 4