Monday morning is always a bit of a struggle and it seems my SP3 was really feeling it this morning.
It refused to recognise either the SP4 Type Cover or the SP3 Type Cover during boot and OS load. Normally I'm use to swapping out to the older type cover for Ubuntu (real shame - SP4 Type Cover is a massive improvement) when the two stop talking but today...nothing.
No matter how much I shouted, cursed, cleaned the connectors, pleaded or bargained with it, the device would not recognised the keyboard.
This post is to potentially save someone else out there the frustration of the fix - which I found myself as none of the posts out there seem to fix the problem.
Here we go:
It refused to recognise either the SP4 Type Cover or the SP3 Type Cover during boot and OS load. Normally I'm use to swapping out to the older type cover for Ubuntu (real shame - SP4 Type Cover is a massive improvement) when the two stop talking but today...nothing.
No matter how much I shouted, cursed, cleaned the connectors, pleaded or bargained with it, the device would not recognised the keyboard.
This post is to potentially save someone else out there the frustration of the fix - which I found myself as none of the posts out there seem to fix the problem.
Here we go:
- Shut down the SP3 in preparation for a boot into the UEFI manager with the type cover attached
- Hold down Volume Up + Power and then release only the power button after a couple of seconds
- Got to keep the Vol. Up button pressed until you see the UEFI or UEFI login screen
- Doesn't really matter what you do at this point as you should be able to navigate / login using your type cover
- Select "Exit" and reboot
Should now be back in operation. There's something about going into the UEFI kick starts the connectivity between SP3 and TC.
