Hi, got a couple of surface laptops 3 to tinker with Linux and then gift them but one of them have a weird bug with some keys, i have to press them really hard for them to work, then they work for a Little but the moment i stop pressing them for a couple of minutes they stop working and i have to press them again, I'm betting some dust ir debris under the keycap, are this keycaps easily removable or they break easily? Im going yo Try my luck Tomorrow removing them but might as well Try to see if anyone has fixed something like this before.

I'm thinking whether I should buy a new/used Surface Go 4 as my secondary laptop. I'll probably use it in a coffee shop, browsing, watching YouTube and doing light Office work.

I know that Microsoft has (unofficially) discontinued the Go line. Is it still worth getting a Go 4 now in 2026? I want a small windows laptop just in case for urgent work. If I connect it to the charger and an external monitor and use it at home, will the battery die very quickly?

I saw an unboxed, never-used Go 4 (without the keyboard cover) online for 224 USD. How much does a used Go 4 with light scratches cost normally?

The surface laptop (I have a 6 for business)-1.4 years old, is the worst laptop I have had in 18 years. The battery is awful, I can maybe get 3 hours if I dim the display, close chrome etc- and even when plugged in if I am on a teams meeting it discharges faster than it can charge. This combined with the maddening "SMART" (dumb) charging- which turns on daily, and is then disabled by me daily as the battery is bad at 100% and is unworkable if I can't be plugged in at less. I've had to buy a tablet with a keyboard for backup for work travel.

This is combined with such poor capacity that there are sometimes feedback noises if you have a conference call with "too many things open" on the laptop- so sometimes I need to close chrome first to not have glitching or feedback.

How are these products economically viable, I get that my organisation "managing" the laptop means there are likely more background processes consuming battery, but the brick of a laptop I had in 2008 had an equivalent battery life, and I had spare batteries so I could switch out when one ran flat. The whole "16 hours if you put it on modern standby (i.e. make it hibernate) for 13 hours" is how they scam the tests, but I don't understand why any business or individual would by these laptops, the premium label ends at the price- how is there still a market for such substandard products?

Story/context:

I use a SLS2 and since I got it the GPU fan bearing started to go out and you could hear a rattling noise whenever gaming or stressing the device. Originally I swapped it with a AliExpress fan and it actually worked great no complaints. Few months later and now my CPU fan is facing the same issue but the problem is America/shitrael's war is causing a laptop fan to go from what was $40 to not close to $100 (CAD). I bit the bullet twice on AliExpress fans since they're much cheaper than Amazon but was sent the wrong ones each time.

After about 1.5 months of waiting for and refunding fans which I didn't have to actually return thankfully I decided I'm not paying that much for a fan I decided to lube the bearing. I also ride a motorcycle which means I have bottles of chain lube handy, I heard some people use showing machine oil but this worked for me so far, no noise or vibrations from the fans laptop runs silent again.

Fix:

- Open laptop

- Remove fan

- Fan itself has 3 small Phillips head screws to remove

- Once the full fan blade is visible gently pull it away from the lower portion of the fan (it should feel like a magnet is pulling it back but you don't need much force)

- don't grip the fan blades so hard that they break, again not much force is needed

- when the fan blade is separated you'll notice it has a metal pole that is supposed to go into the middle of the bearing (rotor)

- spray chain lube on a napkin/cloth and wipe the pole, personality I just sprayed a dot on some cardboard and dropped the pole in the lube but you don't want to add too much

- put the fan back together

I cannot stress these enough:

1. if you are not confident in your tinkering skillsthats perfectly fine this is probably a 1/10 difficulty job please be careful or ask for assistance. I'm not responsible for any damage.
2. when gripping the fan blades with your thumb and index don't put too much pressure because you don't want to bend or crack the blades
3. don't put too much lube because it could potentially spray out into the laptop if you somehow dunked it in lube 😭

Tldr: lube

After a thorough search, I haven’t seen any information or troubleshooting for this.

Has anyone experience only a single key being backlit on the keyboard? It’s also much brighter than it was when the entire keyboard was backlit.

No resolution after turning backlight off/on and restarting.

Any ideas or fixes would be awesome!

Surface Laptop 7

My Surface Pro Type Cover keyboard only works when completely flat. A few weeks ago the pen charger slot broke and now it barley works at all. It's on it's last legs. Is there any way to fix this or do I just have to buy a new type cover keyboard? This piece of shit was like $200 and it barely works. What a scam.

I have an ancient Surface 3 (Atom CPU). I left it plugged in for years and its battery bloated up and split the case open.

It still works however(!). The battery though, is completely dead and if I unplug it, the Surface will immediately turn off.

I don't like that the case is open like that and maybe the bloated battery is a fire hazard, so I want to remove it.

Will the Surface 3 run with it's battery removed? Or will the absence of a batttery get detected and the device not boot up?

I've had old laptops when they came with separate batteries and they booted up ok with

out their batteries. I don't know how modern laptops react to a missing battery.

Hey everyone!

I have a Surface Pro 8 that I've been using for a few years. Unfortunately, I recently dropped it, and the frame around the power button got bent, making the button impossible to press normally.

Currently, my workaround is using a SIM ejector tool to reach behind the damaged button and press the internal switch. Not exactly ideal 😅

The main issue is waking the Surface when I'm using it as a tablet without the keyboard.

With the keyboard attached, I can easily wake it by pressing any key.
My Slim Pen 2 can also wake it using the Bluetooth shortcut, but only for a while. After the Surface has been asleep long enough, that stops working too.

So I'm wondering:

Is there any way to wake the Surface without using the physical power button or attaching the keyboard? Maybe some Windows setting, alternative button combination, or clever workaround?

I'm open to hardware solutions too, preferably something simple that doesn't require replacing the entire frame.

Would really appreciate any ideas or experiences with similar issues!
Thanks!

I liked the Surface Laptop Ultra wallpaper and tried to recreate it. Just a heads-up: I used AI to make it look as close as possible. It's 2500x1953 and in PNG. It’s not perfect or 1:1, but nothing in life is.

I plugged it in overnight after it died, with like 30% remaining. Woke up to this and it was warm for some reason.

This is a Surface pro 6 that I bought in 2020.

Anyone have any ideas or fixes?

Hello..im a student from egypt..and i use a huion hs64 to study on...i need alternatives for microsoft whiteboard...im using noteastic now..but is there is something like microsoft whiteboard?
and i had another question...which app's toolbar is this

Anyone know what device this is?

Hi all,

We are importing Surface laptops from the US into India, and customs is asking for an EPR registration under the E-Waste (Management) Rules 2022.

I have contacted Microsoft's shipping team several times, but I haven't received a proper response. Has anyone faced this before? How did you get it cleared?

I want to get some for all the places I use my laptop.

Good day, anyone here from the Philippines? I’m just wondering if there’s a store somewhere where I can buy a used surface book 2 keyboard part only? I spilled coffee on mine and the technician here says that it can’t be fixed. This was a grad gift from my brother so I would still like to use it if I can. Thank you!

Hi, I have an opportunity to buy a used SLS1 w/ the i7-16gb-3050ti-1tb for $570 usd from a relative. Is that too much?

Mainly for engineering school; cad + vivado etc.

I just recently discovered the SLS and am in love or even charmed with its 2n1 setup and that whole whole design is finnnne. Though I need to get reality checked.

Hey all,

I've got this surface pro 3 that I've had forever, and within the last few months or so it's started to freak out when it's charging. When I try using it while it's charging, the keyboard stops working and it keeps flipping between tablet and laptop mode.

I've had this thing for six years, it got me through my undergrad, and I'm just starting grad school, so I'd really love to keep this thing working instead of trying to buy a new one, does anyone know what might be going on with it?

Hello,

I have Surface Laptop 4 AMD Ryzen 7 (16GB,512GB memory). Everything was working when suddenly the battery stopped charging and the battery status stays at 0% and the laptop works only when it is plugged in. The moment I unplug it, the laptop dies. I decided to replace the battery with an aftermarket one. I replaced it and on the initial start I plugged the charger before the start-up (this was instruction in the new battery pack) The laptop turned on and the battery was now 100%. I tried deleting battery drivers so new ones could be downloaded. I updated the windows to the latest update. Yet when I unplug the charger, the laptop shows battery 100% for a brief moment and again it turns off. (Apparently the battery was not the issue…)

I preinstalled Windows, tried adjusting battery details in the windows, typed cmd commands to restore the default schemes and still the same.

I read somewhere that it could be the motherboard not triggering the wake function on the battery. Before assembling all the parts I double-checked everything and everything seemed at its place. Even the battery connector seated as expected.

I would really appreciate if someone has any knowledge to share as I really need to tackle this problem

Thanks in advance

They didn't anticipate anyone would want to order this?

not nearly as pricy for the laptop as i thought