{"id":23420,"date":"2022-02-18T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=23420"},"modified":"2022-02-18T10:07:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T09:07:07","slug":"surface-book-3-letztes-firmware-update-macht-probleme-feb-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2022\/02\/18\/surface-book-3-letztes-firmware-update-macht-probleme-feb-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface Book 3: Feb. 2022 firmware update may brick device"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German<\/a>]Owners of a Microsoft Surface Book 3 should be careful installing a Feb. 2022 firmware update on these devices at the moment. I have information that the combination of certain firmware updates can lead to real issues and bricks a device (device no longer boots, drives disappear).<\/p>\n

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\"\"I don't really follow the information about firmware updates for the Surfaces anymore – but had noticed that German blogger Martin Geu\u00df reported about corresponding updates in the article Firmware-Updates f\u00fcr Surface Book 3 und LTE-Version des Surface Pro 8<\/a>. However, there are serious issues for some users, Susan Bradley recently pointed it out on Askwoody<\/a> – Barb Bowman noticed that because she is frequently within the Surface forums.   <\/p>\n

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Someone on Twitter also points out the problem (see above tweet<\/a>). On Microsoft Answers, there is this thread<\/a> in the Surface forum from February 4, 2022, which refers to the Surface Book 3. <\/p>\n

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No disks after firmware update<\/p>\n

I also had this combination of 2 firmware updates (13.101.140.0 and 13.0.1889.2 sounds right) last night, but the machine didn't boot at all anymore this morning. When I enter the UEFI it says System UEFI = 13.101.140 and Intel Management Engine = 13.0.1889.2 so it does seem that both firmwares got installed correctly.<\/p>\n

I tried booting from a recovery USB and from inside diskpart it showed that there were no partitions anymore.<\/p>\n

I tried reinstalling (both with secureboot on and off) but Windows gives Error 0x80300024 and from inside diskpart I get \"The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error\" after giving a \" list disk, select disk 0, detail disk, clean, create partition efi\" <\/p>\n

The machine was working just fine before the firmware updates so \"thank you Microsoft for breaking my device\" <\/p>\n

Any hope on being able to getting this machine working again from inside Windows PE? (I am not worried about any dataloss, just productivityloss)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The user uses a certain firmware combination and after installation found that all partitions on the disk had disappeared – even when booting from USB media). Windows throws error 0x80300024 and diskpart reports a fatal hardware error. In the thread there is another user who reports several devices as affected. On Microsoft Answers, there are other forum posts like here<\/a> and here<\/a> describing similar things. A $2,000 device has been hacked via firmware update.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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