8/19/14 System Firmware Update

[rmstern53]

Just installed this from Windows Update, anyone know what it fixes?

 

[anthonyng]

scared me when I did the system firmware update when I first bought my SP3 (Aug 15) it turned off and didn't really seem to do anything for a while.

Held the power button for a long time and then back on again, but stuck on this updating firmware screen for quite a while. And again on 2nd reboot... Not sure if that's normal but I found it a weird experience.

 

[jrohland]

Hope someone in the know posts what this firmware claims to fix/improve.

 

[hopmedic]

Here it is:
Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro and Surface RT all get new firmware updates | Windows Phone Central

 

[JW888]

I think just the improvement.......

 

[anthonyng]

Here it is:
Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro and Surface RT all get new firmware updates | Windows Phone Central

That's the old one, new one today

 

[Coreldan]

Fresh out of the press:

Surface Pro 3 gets new but small out-of-schedule firmware update | Windows Phone Central

 

[nuprotocol]

Microsoft News | Microsoft Releases New System Firmware Update For Surface Pro 3, Improves Boot Times In Some Scenarios

 

[stephen_az]

scared me when I did the system firmware update when I first bought my SP3 (Aug 15) it turned off and didn't really seem to do anything for a while.

Held the power button for a long time and then back on again, but stuck on this updating firmware screen for quite a while. And again on 2nd reboot... Not sure if that's normal but I found it a weird experience.

What you did is a great way to trash the machine a couple days after purchase. Firmware updates do turn the screen on and off a couple times and can take a while. For whatever reason it can also take longer on some machines than others. Interrupting a firmware update can leave a machine in an unusable and irrecoverable state.

 

[Adam_ation]

scared me when I did the system firmware update when I first bought my SP3 (Aug 15) it turned off and didn't really seem to do anything for a while.

Held the power button for a long time and then back on again, but stuck on this updating firmware screen for quite a while. And again on 2nd reboot... Not sure if that's normal but I found it a weird experience.

Wow, i would be scared if i were you aswell knowing that i was going to be rebooting like a maniac during a firmware update. If you want to ruin any device , rebooting during firmware update is a great russian roulette method of going about it - Adam

 

[hopmedic]

That's the old one, new one today

Yeah... I answered before learning about the latest update. :wink:

 

[nrnw]

following the 19-Aug firmware update, my SP3 is running much higher CPU and getting hot and the fans kicks in a lot...anyone else seeing issues after the 19-Aug firmware update? Getting frustrated now with these updates that break things that were working fine before

 

[Danielo290881]

following the 19-Aug firmware update, my SP3 is running much higher CPU and getting hot and the fans kicks in a lot...anyone else seeing issues after the 19-Aug firmware update? Getting frustrated now with these updates that break things that were working fine before

I am frustrated, too and I am having same problem, too. I have also noticed that since the last firmware update in mid-August, the CPU is very busy in Connected Standby. The result is that I see the CPU information in slleepstudy what causes me to lose about 11 percent of battery in an hour.