Surface Pro 3 Blank Lock Screen

My Surface Pro 3 (i7, 8GB RAM, 256Gb SSD) is unusable at the moment. I'm running Windows 10 Technical Preview latest public build.
Went to use it today but it is stuck on a blank lock screen. Have tried rebooting by holding down power button, waiting and then restarting but it just reboots back to a completely blank lockscreen. I see the mouse cursor but nothing else. Tried everything!
If I power down by holding power button I see the lockscreen asking me to swipe down to power off but I see nothing else.
It is completely stuck right now with now way to login and use it let alone refresh or update it.

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Hi,
I tried posting this before, but I can't find my origional post so I hope I'm not spamming accidentally.
I have a problem with my program on a Windows 8.1 Surface Pro tablet. I programmed a button to be 'push-and-hold', but when I touch the tablet nothing happens until I release my finger. This briefly controls the button. When I connect a USB mouse to the tablet, it responds normally; when I press the left mouse button: the button in my program goes down until I release the mouse button. I tried about every setting in the Touch section of the Windows control panel without any succes.
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SOLVED: Can't blank/lock screen after 30 mins - xset s off not working

I want the monitor screen to blank after 30 minutes of idleness and password lock it. The password lock works fine, but the screen blanks after 10 minutes.
Here is what I have in my ~/.xinitrc
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xset dpms 0 1800 3600 &
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Last edited by bpont (2011-12-17 18:02:47)

karol wrote:
Not sure what's wrong with your setup, works for me:
[karol@black ~]$ xset s default
[karol@black ~]$ xset -q | grep -A2 "Screen Saver"
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timeout: 600 cycle: 600
[karol@black ~]$ xset s off
[karol@black ~]$ xset -q | grep -A2 "Screen Saver"
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prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 600
For some reason you're using the default timeout even though you have 'xset s off &' in your .xinitrc.
I don't know what exactly 'xautolock -time 30 -locker slock -notify 30 &' does, try commenting it out and see if it changes anything.
If you're still stuck, post the whole ~/.xinitrc.
I did your above test which gave me the same results as you. The thing is, whenever I reboot, that setting will be lost.
I think what I'll try next is moving the xset s off command from ~/.xinitrc into ~/.fluxbox/startup
I will leave xautolock -time 30 -locker slock -notify 30 & in ~/.xinitrc for now. By the way, what that line does is lock my display after 30 minutes using the 'slock' package and notifies me with a 30 second system alarm warning before it does so. That way I can press my keyboard or move my mouse to avoid locking my display.
Edit: Actually, what I ended up doing was simply changing the ordering of commands in my ~/.xinitrc from:
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xset dpms 0 1800 3600 &
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xset dpms 0 1800 3600 &
xset s off &
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and that solved the problem by changing the timeout to 0...not really sure why the ordering of commands matters here, but it worked so I'm changing this thread to SOLVED.
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edit:
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