My surface 4 ghost typing 7yapgb and screen brightness turn down

phan lang 0 Reputation points
2025-08-26T03:03:02.47+00:00

Hello team,

My surface 4 has an error that it automatically types ‘7yapgb’ and reduces screen brightness. I have reset Windows and updated the driver but it doesn’t work. When I enter UEFI, the error is still the same.

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  1. Jay Mark Dullan 550 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-08-26T16:35:53.8766667+00:00

    Hello phan,

    Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Community, did you try to Detach the Type Cover / Keyboard. You can do Power off your Surface then remove the keyboard or touch cover, Boot into UEFI again and observe if the ghost typing and brightness issue persists.

    If the issue disappears, the keyboard is the culprit

    and regarding on your brightness since you already do an update and reset screen brightness, you can use a surface diagnostic toolkit https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/fix-common-problems-using-the-surface-app-and-surface-diagnostic-toolkit-f61d8d18-37a9-863d-f8d0-1982eb16f7b5#bkmk_sdt

    just to check everything on your surface

    Please let me know if it works. I await your response.

    Warm regards,

    JayMark

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