The GPU drivers are in the Surface Book default/recovery image.
Something like C:\Program Files\Nvdia\Installer32\Video.Driver{}
Disable Hyper-V to stop the screen flickering.
Thanks,
Jeff Jerousek
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Hyatt, Dewayne
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 1:28 PM
To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] OSD - Surface Book
I was handed a surface book today to get prepped for OSD.
I downloaded the driver package from Microsoft:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49497
It doesn't seem fully baked just yet. The description talks about a .zip
archive that contains all of the drivers, but only an MSI is provided. If you
install the MSI on a surface book then all of the drivers and firmware will
extracted to C:\Program Files
(x86)\SurfacePlatformInstaller\SurfaceBook_Win10_151027_0. I tried to extract
the drivers on my Surface Pro 3 and learned you can only run the MSI on a
Surface Book.
I copied all the drivers up to my content share and created a driver package.
It would seem that the Ethernet drivers are the same for the new dock as they
were for the Surface Pro 3 so I did not have to update my boot images.
I learned afterwards that the driver package from Microsoft did not include the
NVidia GPU drivers... those also did not come down with Windows Update and do
not appear anywhere on the Microsoft site. You cannot use drivers directly from
NVidia so I'm pretty much stuck without the GPU at this point.
I have noticed some odd bugs with this device. Detaching the screen causes some
weirdness with the keyboard once reattached. I also noticed that if you have
the device docked and you detach/reattach the screen that it will not resume
charging. You have to reseat the surface connector from the dock to get it to
start charging again.
Overall the engineering of the thing is beautiful. Hopefully the bugs get
worked out in the future.
Dewayne
