It appears in device manager as HID Keyboard but not Surface Cover. I have experiencing some trouble to setup my surface cover keyboard. On the Surfaceforums blog there’s a distressingly similar complaint about the Surface Pro 3. For some subset of Surface Pro 4 users (no doubt a “ small number” of customers), the keyboard doesn’t work, and Microsoft isn’t answering questions. Looking at the other complaints on that thread, it appears as if refreshing Windows doesn’t help at all. 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.

My type cover was attached throughout this process. … 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. Poster kzh91 on the Microsoft Answers forum describes the problem:Īfter a recent surface pro 4 firmware update, my 'surface type cover filter device' driver disappeared, and my type cover no longer works. 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. This time the symptoms involve a suddenly dead Type Cover, a missing driver - and no help from Microsoft. Yet another report of problems with the Microsoft Surface Pro 4.

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