Surface book: April 2020 firmware updates bricked my device

Same exact problem: Surface pro 5 after update does not enter uefi mod with red bar. I've tried them all! Unusable!

I think its pretty cut and dry after reading countless threads of people having the same problem. Microsoft bricked their own products (weird only older Surfaces got bricked isnt it???) that are no longer covered by warranty and when customers call in... (who paid a lot of money for their devices) Microsoft’s solution is to suggest dropping $1k PLUS on a newer Surface product. Kind of sucks because I paid $1,699 for my Surface Book 2 in Dec 2019. Didn’t even last a year. 

I needed a working computer ASAP as my income depends on it. I found a different solution from all the rigamarolle people have been going through (like you described in your response).

I bought a MacBook Pro and am not looking back. Now I do my codimg in Terminal.

Thanks again Microsoft for showing your products are **** and your customer service and customer appreciation are even worse than your products.

Once again Microsoft pushed me toward Apple/Mac products. Thank goodness I could afford it bc I’d be homeless and broke if I depended on Microsoft to get me up, running... and working again after thier update bricked THEIR product... and only their Surface products.

Thanks Microsoft. Great company you have there guys. Brick your older flagship devices and the only option you provide is to buy another.

Even the threads I read where people WERE under warranty... these pukes offered pennies on the dollar as reimbursement. What about the money they paid for the bricked device? What about all the lost work hours when we were down? What about all our upset clients? Buy a NEW Microsoft product is their ONLY answer?

Buy a Mac and be done with the madness. My heart goes out to those who can’t afford to just hop onto the Apple store and buy a new Mac. Especially with so many people out of work right now due to Covid.

Hey together! Possible a „solution“ for all, who are able to boot into EFI but not into Windows anymore after a Surface-Firmware Update:

I have quite a similiar issue after i applied the newest „ Surface - Firmware - 235.3261.768.0“ (UEFI) and the „ Surface – Firmware – 241.304.139.0“ (Aggregator) on my SP6. 

After reboot it hopped into UEFI. I tried everything: no USB-Boot and so on. Tired original Surface BMR Recovery with thausands of different USB-Sticks, disabled secure Boot... Nothing. Just for fun i had a Ubuntu 20.04 Install-Stick.. well, and this one bootet up. For testing i installed it with all neccessary Kernels and Drivers. All was working fine. No faulty SSD or somethin. But Windows still dont wanted to boot. Used several Unix-Tools to get the damn Windows to boot up on a SURFACE. 

After hours and hours i finally found out, that after the UEFI Update the UEFI-Part if my Surface will not accept Windows Bootloader-Files pre Windows 10 era. 

So i downloaded the latest Windows 8.1 Build, extracted the bootx64.efi and bootmgfw.efi (is the same File but different naming...) and overwrite them on the EFI Partition/USB Stick /EFI/Boot and /EFI/Microsoft/Boot. 

And voila: My Windows Surface-Starts up. I had stock 1903, after 2004 the Error reappears after the first reboot (restored this efi Files from !!2014!! again) Same thing from 2004 to 2009 (20H2). I am hoping MS releases a fix for that! ...so that my Surface is able to boot Windows 10 (and future Featureupdates). I dint know how long my old-efi File trick will work on future Builds. 

conclusion: it seems that MS breaks on some devices with the Surface-Firmware Updates some Bootstack elements in their UEFI. 

normally without this efi-Files, my surface will be a non-Windows running, Linux-booting brick!! Weirdoo..

Hello - 

My Surface book Laptop (1) is bricked and I am interested in joining your legal fight. Can you please two one four 937 Nine 3 one one.

Thanks

I paid almost $1700 for my surface book 2 and now its bricked less than a year later. I cant believe the hassle people in this thread have went through and am appauled at Microsoft’s response. The first time this happened to me I returned to an earlier version of windows 10 and made sure automatic updates were turned off. Yesterday I turned the surface book on and got the “Updates instlling” pauae screen. Once I logged in it went to the blue screen of death and was stuck in a atart up loop. Tried to go back to an earlier version of Windows 10 and it was not possible. 

So basically here’s what I see... Microsoft put out updates to Windows that bricked countless Surface products MONTHS ago. Since then, they have had countless complaints. So here I in September and I get an update that bricks my Surface. I figure out a work around and make sure there are no automatic updates. Microsoft forces an update anyways, my Surface is bricked again and now I cant revert to a non-bricked version of Windows. Since this is only happening to Surface products... it sure feels like Microsoft assumes that people willing to spend “Surface money” on a device will pay for another shi**y Microsoft device since Microsoft “force bricked” their Surface. My advice? Go with Mac/Apple bc Microsoft is clearly a bunch of snakes. SO pissed at this point.