Surface Pro 9 lagging after waking from sleep after SSD upgrade

mrkvchm · March 18

I upgraded the SSD in my Surface Pro 9 to a SABRENT Rocket Q4 2230 NVMe 4.0 2TB for extra storage. Ever since I upgraded the SSD, when I wake it from sleep, the whole system is super laggy. It's not unresponsive at all, it just feels like it's running at 10 fps. Sometimes it stops lagging pretty quickly, sometimes it takes quite a few minutes or longer. A total reboot always resolves the issue. Surface Pro devices enable bitlocker by default, so I tried disabling it but this did not help. I'm wondering if there are any settings I can tweak for how the system sleeps that might prevent this behavior? Or any other ideas? Thanks!

Zomeguy · March 18

Well there's been issues like you've described since Windows 7 days. The ones that might apply to your case is sometimes power settings (changing to balanced seemed to fix it for those people), or Trim not enabled.

Good luck

mrkvchm · March 23

I think I figured it out. I was barking up the wrong tree thinking the SSD upgrade caused the problem. A user on Reddit suggested Win+Crtl+Shift+B to correct the issue when it was lagging, which totally worked. So I used DDU to nuke the Intel graphics driver and let Windows Update reinstall it and I haven't had an issue since.