{"id":2798,"date":"2023-07-18T16:56:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T16:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2023-07-18T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T16:57:11","slug":"surface-pro-4-keyboard-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/?p=2798","title":{"rendered":"Surface Pro 4 Keyboard not working"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have had this issue a number of times, where the cover keyboard just won&#8217;t work, even after rebooting several times.<\/p>\n<p>This appears to be a common problem which is griped about online, and the solutions are varied, not that clear\/consistent, and do not always work. I even replaced the cover keyboard, which did fix the problem at the time, but I then later found that the original one still worked!<\/p>\n<p>IMO this looks like some kind of underlying bios problem.<\/p>\n<p>After trying a number of ideas which did not work, including removing the keyboard driver, and disabling\/re-enabling the keyboard in the UEFI bios, I found that booting into the UEFI bios (hold +volume button whilst pressing on button), and then rebooting again, seemed to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/windowsreport.com\/surface-pro-4-type-cover\/\">This site here<\/a><\/strong> appeared to have some helpful ideas, including running the keyboard troubleshooter, which I had not seen previously. As the troubleshooter initially said that there were no problems (!), I had to run <strong><em>additional troubleshooters\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and then select keyboard, as per the post, for it to work. In my case, the troubleshooter ran fine, but the keyboard was already working, so I&#8217;ll have to wait until next time to see if this helps to solve the problem, should it occur again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had this issue a number of times, where the cover keyboard just won&#8217;t work, even after rebooting several times. This appears to be a common problem which is griped about online, and the solutions are varied, not that clear\/consistent, and do not always work. I even replaced the cover keyboard, which did fix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,11,133,41,212],"tags":[40,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}