Re: My bet - this is overheating of a component
A few minutes in the freezer is the only solution that actually works, albeit temporarily. The flickering usually kicks in when the CPU temperature goes above 40C.
Posts by TPS Report
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$14bn tax hit, Surface Pro screens keep dying – but it's not all good news at Microsoft
Thursday 1st February 2018 08:58 GMT
I purchased my Surface Pro 4 in October 2016 and flickergate kicked in in December 2017. Adding seconds to the taskbar clock with a registry entry buys the machine around another month of use because, to begin with, any movement on the screen corrects the blurring and flickering. However, the will to flicker is strong in the Surface Pro 4 and it eventually overrides this workaround in a quest to flicker itself to death. I might just have to step in at some point and smash it pieces myself out of frustration.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
