On Monday and haven't seen anything since, but I suspect it's not related to hardware at all as the issue is incredibly sporadic. If you go into the power options on a surface device, you'll see that there's a single power plan available.
Utilizing the custom power profile in Surface. I then did a full re-install of ALL Surface Pro 3 drivers using SurfacePro3Win101510262.msi - still the same: less than 10 minutes after detaching the device from power I get a BSOD I then tried to first REALLY get rid of those (presumably corrupt) pen drivers with the intention to re-install them afterwards: the drive 'Surface Pen. Currently trying a different CPU on suggestion ever since this crash This article applies to all currently supported Surface devices including Surface Pro 7+, Surface Laptop Go, Surface Pro 7, Surface Pro X, and Surface Laptop 3.
GPU was RMA'd and have swapped out for another one as another test (which it did not give a driver power state failure error, just merely crashed due to be a significantly older card). Some games will refuse to start period, but usually will be the aforementioned black window I can tell when it is going to occur if I launch a game and am given a black window for the app, or if Steam refuses to start despite Task Manager stating it is running I included a list of related Minidump logs below. The Bug Check String was DRIVERPOWERSTATEFAILURE. It happens more frequently after 2 (according to Minidump), about every 2-3 days.
The system frequently BSOD and reboot during connected standby. Problem occurs on attempting to shutdown or restart, and it doesn't happen consistently. I'm running the latest Windows 10 on my surface book. I pressed the power and volume down button, held for 15 seconds, and pressed the power button again. It took so long that I thought this wasnt normal. The surface restart but this time it got stuck on the black screen with Surface logo on it. All drivers are up to date to my knowledge. It said DRIVERPOWERSTATEFAILURE and it would restart itself. These drivers and firmware are compatible with Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, including Enterprise versions. I only encounter it when plugging in an external monitor (mini-DP to HDMI to AV receiver to TV hdmi) where it will connect but not switch over audio and within a minute or two.
This package contains drivers for all of the components in the Surface Pro 3, as well as updates to the system firmware that have been released via Windows Update. I have been having a similar issue with a BSOD driverpowerstatefailure which also was leading toward nvhda64v.sys as the faulting module (symbol name nvhda64v+8ee0). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Cumulative and current drivers and firmware for the Surface Pro 3. Event log had this share: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.