{"id":709,"date":"2013-10-11T13:35:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2013-10-11T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T17:35:47","slug":"i-thought-my-surface-pro-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/11\/i-thought-my-surface-pro-died\/","title":{"rendered":"I thought my Surface Pro Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As normal, I left my Surface Pro plugged in overnight. And yes, the white LED is lit. <\/p>\n<p>When I tried to awaken it:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"surfacepro died\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 10px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"surfacepro died\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/surfacepro-died.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The power supply WAS working. I plugged various things into the USB port on the brick and it is working. The LED tip is white as it should be. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d tried everything at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/en-us\/support\/warranty-service-and-recovery\/surface-pro-wont-turn-on\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/en-us\/support\/warranty-service-and-recovery\/surface-pro-wont-turn-on<\/a> and things like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winrtsource.com\/2013\/01\/16\/microsoft-surface-wont-power-on-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.winrtsource.com\/2013\/01\/16\/microsoft-surface-wont-power-on-solution\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For whatever reason, after reading everything on the web about reviving Surface Pro\u2019s, I tried one more thing.<\/p>\n<p>I Held the power button down and pressed the volume UP button. Eureka. Crisis averted. Normal startup. I did a cold shutdown, reinserted the microSD card which I had pulled for trouble shooting. <\/p>\n<p>The battery is not depleted:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"surface is ok\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 10px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"surface is ok\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/surface-is-ok.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, if someone from the Surface team can tell me what exactly happened here\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As normal, I left my Surface Pro plugged in overnight. And yes, the white LED is lit. When I tried to awaken it: &#160; The power supply WAS working. I plugged various things into the USB port on the brick and it is working. The LED tip is white as it should be. I\u2019d tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[140],"tags":[159],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>As normal, I left my Surface Pro plugged in overnight. And yes, the white LED is lit. When I tried to awaken it: &#160; The power supply WAS working. I plugged various things into the USB port on the brick and it is working. The LED tip is white as it should be. I\u2019d tried everything at http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/en-us\/support\/warranty-service-and-recovery\/surface-pro-wont-turn-on and things like http:\/\/www.winrtsource.com\/2013\/01\/16\/microsoft-surface-wont-power-on-solution\/ For whatever reason, after reading everything on the web about reviving Surface Pro\u2019s, I tried one more thing. I Held the power button down and pressed the volume UP button. Eureka. Crisis averted. Normal startup. I did a&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/category\/surface\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Surface<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"barbbowman","url":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/author\/barbbowman\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvFKI-br","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}