Hey friends.
I bought a used Microsoft Surface Pro 6 . Good condition, only downside is that the xHCI complient USB Host Controller gives code 10.
I have tried everything that seemed immediately obvious to solve this, like driver updates, roll back OS versions, run all MS's diagnostics tools etc.
The kicker: It works in UEFI just fine.
It works in Grub2, too.
I can even boot off a USB recovery drive thumbstick. However, after it has loaded the image and starts the OSs drivers, it fails.
(This is actually how I got Windows back on it, by putting a split image of Tiny10 into the Surface Recovery Disk boot.wim a piece at a time, unpack on device and run BCDBoot)
The device came with latest firmware version and I can see many people online have had similar issues with Surface Pro 4-7.
So my current thought is that the lastest firmware introduced something. However, Microsoft doesn't let you roll back firmware and there is also the question of other firmwares following.
Like this SAM thing, which seems to be a power management system...?
I am not overly attached to this thing. It was cheap and it's worthless to me if I don't fix this. However I don't wanna brick it on a whim.
I'm therefore seeking any advice on what I can do and try to get this resolved.
Thank you!
I bought a used Microsoft Surface Pro 6 . Good condition, only downside is that the xHCI complient USB Host Controller gives code 10.
I have tried everything that seemed immediately obvious to solve this, like driver updates, roll back OS versions, run all MS's diagnostics tools etc.
The kicker: It works in UEFI just fine.
It works in Grub2, too.
I can even boot off a USB recovery drive thumbstick. However, after it has loaded the image and starts the OSs drivers, it fails.
(This is actually how I got Windows back on it, by putting a split image of Tiny10 into the Surface Recovery Disk boot.wim a piece at a time, unpack on device and run BCDBoot)
The device came with latest firmware version and I can see many people online have had similar issues with Surface Pro 4-7.
So my current thought is that the lastest firmware introduced something. However, Microsoft doesn't let you roll back firmware and there is also the question of other firmwares following.
Like this SAM thing, which seems to be a power management system...?
I am not overly attached to this thing. It was cheap and it's worthless to me if I don't fix this. However I don't wanna brick it on a whim.
I'm therefore seeking any advice on what I can do and try to get this resolved.
Thank you!