- Surface Type Cover Filter Device Not Working Properly
- Surface Type Cover Filter Device Not Working Windows 10
I've got a personal Surface Pro 3 that I like very much. It's worked great for years and I haven't had any issues with it. However, yesterday while installing a 3rd party USB device something got goofed around with the drivers and I ended up in this state.
Surface Type Cover Filter Device Not Working Properly
That 'banged out' device in my Device Manager is the root Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller for the Surface. That means everything USB didn't work since everything USB hangs off that root device node. I know it's an Intel USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller but I didn't want to go installing random Intel Drivers. I just wanted the Surface back the way it was, working, with the standard drivers.
It is indicated by Microsoft that this is not compatible with the Surface Pro 4 Type Cover, and it doesn't appear that there is any plan on making one that is. 2 people found this helpful.
I tried the usual stuff like Uninstalling the Device and rebooting, hoping Windows would heal it but it didn't work. Because the main USB device was dead that meant my Surface Type Keyboard didn't work, my mouse didn't work, nothing. I had to do everything with the touchscreen.
- The drivers for the devices that you do not connect to your computer are referred to as ghost devices and can sometimes lead to interference with your devices. Uninstalling these ghost devices should remove the interference and solve the Surface mouse not working error on your device. To uninstall these devices.
- Your Surface may be unable to communicate with the Type Cover after installing the update. You can try booting the device from UEFI to see if the accessory will work. Doing this will help us check if the Type Cover works before the Surface loads Windows. To get to the UEFI, follow the steps here.
- Check your Keyboard. The first thing which you should check is whether your keyboard is indeed in a.
After a little poking around on Microsoft Support websites, a friend turned me onto the 'Surface Tools for IT.' These are the tools that IT Departments use when they are rolling out a bunch of Surfaces to an organization and they are regularly updated. In fact, these were updated just yesterday!
There are a number of utilities you can check out but the most useful is the Surface Diagnostic Toolkit. It checks hardware and software versions and found a number of little drivers things wrong...and fixed them. It reset my USB Controller and put in the right driver and I'm back in business.
This util was useful enough to me that I wish it had been installed by default on the Surface and plugged into the built-in Windows Troubleshooting feature.
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