Okay gang, I've got one that I haven't seen ANYWHERE online, and this struck me as the place to go for advice.
I noticed this on Tuesday after I had installed the new set of updates. It's possible it was there before because it's subtle, but annoying. I haven't really talked with Microsoft customer service yet mainly because I'm between apartments at the moment and I have bigger fish to fry.
If I look carefully at the edge of my Surface Pro 3 (i5 128 GB, bought on launch day), I see what I can only describe as static. It is a waving line of white pixels that is most visible on a dark background but is apparently always there (except against a white background, naturally). Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. I tried a refresh because Netflix (Windows 8 app) and X-Box Video both have black borders that make it insanely obvious, and I started seeing the screen flash white every so often (only while streaming video in Metro apps). This is most obvious at the base of the screen, though I can see some of it at the top and sides. It varies between the bezel looking like it's fluctuating to a flash of a white line across the bottom of the screen that is there, and then gone.
This is severely annoying on a device that I use as my main web browser and video watcher. Is this just something that screens do that I've never noticed before (and I have to go back to unnoticing)? Has anyone else encountered this? Since I only noticed it after the most recent update, is it possible that this was a software issue, or is it a creeping hardware problem that only just arose? And are there any solutions short of a swap out?
I noticed this on Tuesday after I had installed the new set of updates. It's possible it was there before because it's subtle, but annoying. I haven't really talked with Microsoft customer service yet mainly because I'm between apartments at the moment and I have bigger fish to fry.
If I look carefully at the edge of my Surface Pro 3 (i5 128 GB, bought on launch day), I see what I can only describe as static. It is a waving line of white pixels that is most visible on a dark background but is apparently always there (except against a white background, naturally). Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. I tried a refresh because Netflix (Windows 8 app) and X-Box Video both have black borders that make it insanely obvious, and I started seeing the screen flash white every so often (only while streaming video in Metro apps). This is most obvious at the base of the screen, though I can see some of it at the top and sides. It varies between the bezel looking like it's fluctuating to a flash of a white line across the bottom of the screen that is there, and then gone.
This is severely annoying on a device that I use as my main web browser and video watcher. Is this just something that screens do that I've never noticed before (and I have to go back to unnoticing)? Has anyone else encountered this? Since I only noticed it after the most recent update, is it possible that this was a software issue, or is it a creeping hardware problem that only just arose? And are there any solutions short of a swap out?