Earlier this week, as it does every second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft released its updates for Windows and the entire Surface tablet family. And while updates are aimed at making the devices better and more secure, that's not always the case. On Patch Tuesday for December 2013, many users are reporting on the Microsoft support site that installing the latest firmware update on their Surface Pro 2 running Windows 8.1 is causing error messages during installation.
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A specific complaint is:
[…] Windows Update says the firmware update failed with error code “WindowsUpdate_80070490 OR WindowsUpdate_dt000”. Now when I close the lid of my Type Cover 2 or SLEEP is turned on after a timeout, my Surface Pro 2 shuts down instead of going to sleep. Also, I never seem to have heard the fans on my Surface Pro 2 before. During shutdown, they now turn on with a loud bang […].
Luckily, it seems someone has found a workaround until Microsoft offers an official fix for this issue:
