Early Surface Book owners reporting GPU, display-related issues

Microsoft’s Surface Book is an unusual and ambitious piece of hardware with a number of new features and capabilities we haven’t seen before. Given this, it was inevitable that we’d see some early reports of hardware problems. The forums are stacking up with complaints, many of which seem to be related to various aspects of the system display. Forum user Ericspt rounded up his own set of problems, shown below:

• Dell 34″ U-Wide cannot be used with the dock. Screen goes black every 2-3 minutes for 10 seconds or so
• Cannot boot with the dock. Monitor never comes on and my Kef X300 speakers just click over and over. Have to boot without the dock, then plug the dock in
• Strangest problem is color temp changes on web pages as you scroll. Goes from a light white screen to a purple or yellow hue once you hit a certain point in the page, happens consistently on long pages and easy repeatable. Happens on both the external monitor and the laptop screen.
• Playing MPEG files on the laptop works fine, playing them connected to the dock will give an unable to decode error sometimes, program closes other times, and plays. After it errors out 2-3 times it refuses to play until reboot.
• Going to a web page where there are a lot of animations or movement causes a black screen, won’t come back until you undock/redock
• Cannot detach dock, says I have to close SearchUI but its not a running service that I can find, have to reboot again
• After using for a while cannot run any program getting a Run32DLL error.

Videos of the color temperature problem have already been posted to YouTube, and it’s a decidedly odd problem. You can see the hue on the page change as the individual scrolls. Other users are reporting the same greenish hues, periodic driver issues, and problems with battery drain when using Connected Standby. Some users have problems with the electric grip mechanism, with one side of the device releasing easily and the other gripping extremely hard.