Yet another report of problems with the Microsoft Surface Pro 4. This time the symptoms involve a suddenly dead Type Cover, a missing driver — and no help from Microsoft. There are tantalizing hints that the bug arrived with a recent pushed software update, and it may affect some Surface Pro 3 machines as well.
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Poster describes the problem: After a recent surface pro 4 firmware update, my 'surface type cover filter device' driver disappeared, and my type cover no longer works. I have tried doing a restart, hard restart, uninstalling the existing keyboard drivers and clicking on scan for hardware changes, but the surface type cover filter device doesn't come back.
So, I'd been having some odd behavior with my Surface Pro 3 Type Cover. Whenever it was connected, either it'd cause the Surface to sleep (as soon as it was connected), or the trackpad would stop working. Sep 03, 2014 Surface Pro 3 with Type Cover driver issue. Discussion in 'Microsoft Surface Pro 3' started by SlashTag, Sep 2, 2014. Surface pro 3 type cover driver download.
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My type cover was attached throughout this process. I do not wish to refresh windows as i don't want to have to reinstall everything, and i can't roll back the surface firmware updates. Looking at the other complaints on that thread, it appears as if refreshing Windows doesn’t help at all. For some subset of Surface Pro 4 users (no doubt a “” of customers), the keyboard doesn’t work, and Microsoft isn’t answering questions. [ To comment on this story, visit. ] On the there’s a distressingly similar complaint about the Surface Pro 3. From poster rodmartinelli: I have experiencing some trouble to setup my surface cover keyboard.
It is a new device and has never worked. It appears in device manager as HID Keyboard but not Surface Cover. Tried to uninstall drivers and reinstall but still unsucessful. Tried to 'reset' drivers by holding Volume up + Power button for 10 seconds but it has just took me to bios menu. Does anyone knows if there is a different way to reset drivers or to change HID Keyboard driver to Surface proper driver? There are similar reports, on, and, on the.
This report from seems particularly apropos: Recently the keyboard cover stopped working. I can see it in the 'devices' section of the settings app but no keyboard light nor does any key-press work. When closing or opening the cover I can see it hide and show on the setting screen.
So the OS see's the cover. It's just not registering any action on the keyboard. In the Devices portion of the Control Panel no errors show up. I tried alcohol swabs on magnets, two button reboot, normal reboot, reinstalling driver from keyboard section control panel, crying softly into my hands. So I took it into the Microsoft store.
At the MS store, they plugged in a USB diagnostics drive and found that it was a driver issue (wish I took a screen shot). We tried another keyboard and it didn't work. He said it was a recent failed MS update that probably caused the problem. There’s been that upgrading from Windows 10 1607 to 1703 (Anniversary Update to Creators Update) solved the problem. I have no idea what's happening, but the ongoing complaints about bad Surface drivers and woeful support certainly strike a chord.
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We are pleased to announce today that you can now download drivers and firmware for both Surface Laptop and the new Surface Pro from the Microsoft Download Center. Visit to download the drivers and firmware for Surface Laptop in MSI format: • SurfaceLaptop_Win10_008_0.msi Visit to download the drivers and firmware for Surface Pro in MSI format: • SurfacePro_Win10_007_0.msi Note: Surface Laptop and Surface Pro are released with the Windows 10 Creators Update, Version 1703. This version is noted by the minimum build number in the driver and firmware pack file name, Build 15063. This build number indicates the minimum supported build required to install the drivers and firmware contained within the file.
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To install this driver and firmware pack, you must have Windows 10 Version 1703 or greater installed on your Surface Pro or Surface Laptop. Note: Starting with Surface Studio, driver and firmware packs for all new Surface devices will be provided in MSI format only. Drivers and firmware will not be provided in ZIP format. You can easily extract the contents of the MSI driver and firmware pack with an administrative installation using msiexec /a.
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For example, to extract the contents of SurfacePro_Win10_007_0.msi to the folder C: Surface Pro Windows 10 Version 17 without bringing up the installation dialog, you would use the following command: msiexec /a SurfacePro_Win10_007_0.msi targetdir=C: Surface Pro Windows 10 Version 17 /qn Note: When extracting driver files from the MSI, the destination folder (targetdir) must be different than the folder containing the MSI file.