BobGibbon

10 hours ago, BobGibbon said:

Currently I am using my Bluetooth keyboard and wired mouse to type this…

I recently bought a surface type cover for my surface pro 4, when I try to attach the keyboard to my tablet the screen goes completely black and the device does not respond to any button commands on the keyboard or the tablet other than turning it off by holding the power button the thing does nothing.

The magical part of this problem is the second i remove the keyboard from the tablet I am able to press the sleep button on the tablet and it wakes right up like nothing happened.

I have tried the “button trick” the “drivers trick” cleaning the contacts on both the tablet and the keyboard and turning the keyboard setting on and off in the uefi settings , I even went to the full extent of a full system wipe and update everything and the keyboard still does not show up in device manager and it still turns off the screen whenever I connect the keyboard.

Any suggestions would be amazing cause I am out of ideas.

Here is the problem explained in a video linked below 

1 minute ago, Krilldk said:

I posted a new picture.. Dont mind the dust though

to me it looks like you are trying to put two male connectors together, the cable side would need to be a female connection for you to be able to connect it  (photo below)

2 minutes ago, Dujith said:

God no, why would you ever do that with something you know nothing about. Worst advice ever. 

I guess I just have to many hard drives laying around to care if i dremel one, if its stupid but it works it ain't stupid 

tbh if it was me I would just ghetto rig it by using a knife or a Dremel to take those two notches out 
jk jk could you post a photo of what the connector pins look like? you might have the wrong cable 

Currently I am using my Bluetooth keyboard and wired mouse to type this…

I recently bought a surface type cover for my surface pro 4, when I try to attach the keyboard to my tablet the screen goes completely black and the device does not respond to any button commands on the keyboard or the tablet other than turning it off by holding the power button the thing does nothing.

The magical part of this problem is the second i remove the keyboard from the tablet I am able to press the sleep button on the tablet and it wakes right up like nothing happened.

I have tried the “button trick” the “drivers trick” cleaning the contacts on both the tablet and the keyboard and turning the keyboard setting on and off in the uefi settings , I even went to the full extent of a full system wipe and update everything and the keyboard still does not show up in device manager and it still turns off the screen whenever I connect the keyboard.

Any suggestions would be amazing cause I am out of ideas.