Hi
I have a W500 I did a clean install of windows 8 onto, it booted fine a couple of times and now when I switch it on all I get is the windows key on the tablet blue and a black display. I can tell the tablet is on and is attempting to do somethings as I can see the usb dvd-drive I attached via the keyboard trying to read. I tried holding the windows button on the tablet and powering on but I have had no luck getting the device to even display the bios, I even disconnecting the msata drive to see if it would at least give me a message but I had no luck.
Can anyone help me to unbrick my Iconia W500?
Hi guys. Help greatly appreciated.
I bought a Cenovo MiniPC from Gearbest 2 months ago and from day 1 I've been getting blue screen errors. I immediately reported this to Gearbest and as you can imagine with the time difference between here (Sweden) and there (China) I was getting slow responses. Cut a long story short they 1st offered me a $20 refund from a $90 device, I accepted at the time as the errors have not appeared for over a week and thought it could be the end of it. 2 weeks after this the errors came back and it wasn't just blue screen on startup but it would freeze up during a session. I again reported this demanding for a full refund and they refused. I opened a dispute with PayPal and after a while they offered me a further $20 which I refused, they then sent me an email and said if I close the dispute they will give me a full refund. I was hesitant whether this was a scam but I went along with it and to their word I got a refund 3 days later.
After I got my refund I thought I may as well try and fix it myself now so I started in BIOS and fiddled with some switches for the emmc, one was 'secure erase', I don't know what was going through my head or what I thought the outcome would be but I enabled it and restarted. Now it just boots into BIOS and I am guessing the reason is that the emmc is now blank.
So ive now got a minipc with a blank emmc, I have loaded a bootable copy of Windows 10 setup to a usb and forced a usb boot in the bios but nothing happens.
I have opened the case to look for a emmc card I can take out and put in my laptop to reformat with an os but I couldn't find anything, there was a metal grill on one side that looks like it is hiding stuff and it is impossible to lift the grill off.
There is a tf card reader on the side so i am thinking that I can extract a Android image onto the card and boot from the card but I am not sure how and whether it will work.
Can i get some assistance in this please.
James
Hello, I've got same problem, 0xc000025 error code, arrived my tentative to upgrade the PC to Windows 10 (the PC arrived with 8.1 installed)
No way to boot my USB in the bios. Have you solved? Someone can help?
try and format the usb stick to 4k sectors before using the win10 media creator, think that's how i did it
Thank you for replying and sorry for the late response.
Have you got the same mini pc?
How do you format stick into 4k sectors? What format did you use (Fat32,NTFS...)?
fat32, in windows format dialog box its "allocation unit size" set to 4096
to boot from usb the stick has to be recognised as bootable before u can run the bios command to override boot device
yep i figured it out thanks. ive now got another problem and this is totally my fault if it cant be fixed...
in bios i unchecked the option to use integrated graphics so now when i boot i see nothing
maddogbarber said:
fat32, in windows format dialog box its "allocation unit size" set to 4096
to boot from usb the stick has to be recognised as bootable before u can run the bios command to override boot device
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jamos316 said:
yep i figured it out thanks. ive now got another problem and this is totally my fault if it cant be fixed...
in bios i unchecked the option to use integrated graphics so now when i boot i see nothing
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intesting, daft thing to do tho, u could try borrow a usb gfx card?
Does anybody know how to reset the bios, because I've disabled the usb ( stupid x 10000 ) and I cannot use the usb ports (mouse and keyboard)
same problem here... I've disabled xhci support and no USB right now. The problem is that removing the battery does not make the bios to default.
I've still got the issue with no picture. I need to reset the bios but not sure how. Or maybe I can connect it to my laptop and get it working from there
yo. just got myself a cenovo mini pc 2, and it runs windows 10, but it's not legit. That bothers me, so I want to run android or linux. You guys mention that it's running a BIOS, but i think perhaps the mini pc 2 is running non-BIOS/EFI, because there's no preboot screen, and USB drives don't boot up at all.
Hi !
Did anyone got a chance at installing another os ?
I have a Cenovo mini pc 2 and I had troubles with sound. I had no issue for a week or two and then (maybe windows update, who knows) the sound would switch to the speakers output instead of the hdmi one. (it was plugged on my tv) so I decided (stupidly) to uninstall the audio components with the hope that windows would redetect and reinstall them with better drivers. Well, that didn't work and now in my device manager are two unknown components which don't work and I have no sound at all. If anyone found the global drivers for the device, or could make me a screenshot of their devices panel...
In the meantime I would probably try my luck to install openelec or kodibuntu on it but I couldn't manage to boot on bios. Did anyone tried using the Advanced startup option of windows 10 ?
Driver Package Cenovo MiniPC2
nyaneko said:
Hi !
Did anyone got a chance at installing another os ?
I have a Cenovo mini pc 2 and I had troubles with sound. I had no issue for a week or two and then (maybe windows update, who knows) the sound would switch to the speakers output instead of the hdmi one. (it was plugged on my tv) so I decided (stupidly) to uninstall the audio components with the hope that windows would redetect and reinstall them with better drivers. Well, that didn't work and now in my device manager are two unknown components which don't work and I have no sound at all. If anyone found the global drivers for the device, or could make me a screenshot of their devices panel...
In the meantime I would probably try my luck to install openelec or kodibuntu on it but I couldn't manage to boot on bios. Did anyone tried using the Advanced startup option of windows 10 ?
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I have my Cenovo MiniPC2 since 2 Days and its working without Problems. Because the first what i'am doing with ia new PC is a backup, i have a Driver Backup too
Use Driver Backup and ask me for a Link to the Driver Package because i cant post outside Links before i spamed xda with antoher 9 postings without links.... sorry.
Maybe i can post a Textlink
mega.nz/#!d8hgzYpa!vI5_giRvMQoWLrNZeIAua3dYNL1J3JFiWOHSK_PPcaE
mega.nz/#!wkJWXbyS!dvVQ4JRn3r2GWAANtQ99purCUrbsNdoWxq_fx8x8gKo
SomeoneYouNeverKnow said:
I have my Cenovo MiniPC2 since 2 Days and its working without Problems. Because the first what i'am doing with ia new PC is a backup, i have a Driver Backup too
Use Driver Backup and ask me for a Link to the Driver Package because i cant post outside Links before i spamed xda with antoher 9 postings without links.... sorry.
Maybe i can post a Textlink
mega.nz/#!d8hgzYpa!vI5_giRvMQoWLrNZeIAua3dYNL1J3JFiWOHSK_PPcaE
mega.nz/#!wkJWXbyS!dvVQ4JRn3r2GWAANtQ99purCUrbsNdoWxq_fx8x8gKo
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I still have the problem with no graphics.
I know the problem as I disabled the onboard graphics in bios... I know **** head move.
I have tried to remove the lead leading from the bios to the motherboard in hopes it will reset it but nothing.
Is there anything I can do from USB do you think? Such as flash a new bios.
yanger said:
yo. just got myself a cenovo mini pc 2, and it runs windows 10, but it's not legit. That bothers me, so I want to run android or linux. You guys mention that it's running a BIOS, but i think perhaps the mini pc 2 is running non-BIOS/EFI, because there's no preboot screen, and USB drives don't boot up at all.
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I have a Cenovo Mini PC 2 with 2GB/32GB. BIOS/EFI/set-up is accessed via pressing F2 after boot. Sometimes it will accept the F2 request, sometimes not. Not sure if this is an issue related to the keypress timing after boot being critical, or the unit being generally fussy (maybe selection of which of the 4 + 1 USB sockets for keyboard is critical?). Only wandered around the BIOS settings a few times but there was all manner of Android-specific options available.
Strangely, when the F2 key is accepted, a message is flashed briefly on the screen saying "Esc key pressed" or similar, as if the "Esc" key was the BIOS access key.
The NexBox T11 InsydeH20 UEFI / BIOS / set-up options are near identical to the Cenovo Mini PC 2. There is a video walkthough of the Netbox T11 Setup Utility although it does not mention the very first screen and options seen when F2 is pressed. The Cenovo Mini PC 2 very first screen titled "First Page" can be viewed at
i68.tinypic.com/35ciec7.jpg
and the subsequent video walkthrough of the T11 "Setup Utility" can viewed at
youtube.com/watch?v=WVdXbjsF5-g
nyaneko said:
Hi ! Did anyone got a chance at installing another os ?... I have a Cenovo mini pc 2... I would probably try my luck to install openelec or kodibuntu on it but I couldn't manage to boot on bios. Did anyone tried using the Advanced startup option of windows 10 ?
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I initially had issues attempting USB boot of Macrium Reflect with my Cenovo Mini PC 2. Eventually solved by one or more amendments of changing brand of USB stick, using Rufus to generate the bootable USB stick via formatting to FAT32 with 4096 bytes cluster size, and disabling fast UEFI in settings. USB stick was inserted into the Mini PC 2 and UEFI / BIOS was accessed by pressing F2 immediately after boot. From the first setting screen, "Boot Manager" was selected and the USB device was visible and able to be highlighted to boot from.
Hi,
Can someone please share the wireless drivers for the minipc2?
I did a fresh windows 10 install and can seem to enable wifi and device manager the wireless adapter shows an yellow triangle.
I've tried with SomeoneYouNeverKnow drivers but it didn't solve this issue...
Thank you
geoair said:
Hi,
Can someone please share the wireless drivers for the minipc2?
I did a fresh windows 10 install and can seem to enable wifi and device manager the wireless adapter shows an yellow triangle.
I've tried with SomeoneYouNeverKnow drivers but it didn't solve this issue...
Thank you
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All drivers can be found via URL below. Restore with freeware app DoubleDriver.
mediafire.com/file/aabn24xzj40jsc8/Cenovo++back+up+drivers+CherryTrail.rar
boozet.org/dd.htm
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All drivers can be found via URL below. Restore with freeware app DoubleDriver.
mediafire.com/file/aabn24xzj40jsc8/Cenovo++back+up+drivers+CherryTrail.rar
boozet.org/dd.htm
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Thank you.
Season greetings
Graphics drivers for cenovo pc mini 1
I Had all the issues which is in this thread so i took the steps as follows it came with windows 10 dual booting android when i looked on the partitions it was a joke several all using up space i entered bios disabled secure emmc created a windows 8.1 32 bit usb boot disk using rufus selecting gpt also fat 32 16k sectors , it worked once i entered install i delete those partitions all of them until i had a single 32 gig partition which i installed a clean windows 8.1 leaving me 20 gigs after install now the problem i have like a idiot i forgot to take a note of the device id vendor etc of the display which does not even appear in the basic adaptor tree in device manager ,, i have tried several drivers but none worked the website who made this device needs a good slap, no drivers no support but a nice device with much potential and why lock the bios to 32bit? what is wrong with these people in the mean time
if anyone has the drivers for this device please share them i would be grateful and if needed i can make a guide on how to turn this little device in to a full windows computer its locked on windows 8 in the bios and most settings in the bios is locked to but i have obtained bios editor tools for this american trends i will give it a try later once i have full gpu control the rest i do not care as it will be used with bluetooth but intel hd drivers or the device if would be appreciated
Kind Regards
I updated my Nvidia Shield Tablet yesterday to Android 6.0.
And since it pertained changes on how it handles SDCards I chose to select the internal variant.
I thought, no harm no foul...there was only music on it anyway.
But now, when I plug my tablet into my computer it recognizes the tablet but neither the device storage nor sdcard storage is shown.
I tried formatting it to the portable option but without success as well.
My tablet is up2date with every Nvidia and android software.
My pc runs with Windows 10 Home 64bit.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Hablais said:
But now, when I plug my tablet into my computer it recognizes the tablet but neither the device storage nor sdcard storage is shown.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Haven't tried it yet, but my understanding is after you've connected the tablet to the PC, pull down the notification shade on the tablet and select the MTP mode for USB.
An Droid said:
Haven't tried it yet, but my understanding is after you've connected the tablet to the PC, pull down the notification shade on the tablet and select the MTP mode for USB.
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**** me...how did this happen lol
Thank you very much, man! You saved me some headache.
Can finally hear music again during work break.
Thanks!
Hi guys
I've juste fix a screen of TF300T for someone
My problem is the following
Scrren working but not the touchpad
That's not the issue
The issue is that some keys one the Asus keyboard does not working (1, backspace...)
And, the worst, whan I want to connect the tab on my PC, I got a windows message saying that it does not recognize the device
I'have tested on 3 different PCs
I think this could be the main USB dock even it the power loading is working properly
can someone help me ?
Thanks
angelo50 said:
Hi guys
I've juste fix a screen of TF300T for someone
My problem is the following
Scrren working but not the touchpad
That's not the issue
The issue is that some keys one the Asus keyboard does not working (1, backspace...)
And, the worst, whan I want to connect the tab on my PC, I got a windows message saying that it does not recognize the device
I'have tested on 3 different PCs
I think this could be the main USB dock even it the power loading is working properly
can someone help me ?
Thanks
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Hey, I'm experiencing the same problem. For what ever reason my tablet is stuck in an infinite boot loop and It refuses to connect with my PC. It charges fine also. BTW is there any way to flash a recovery or firmware to the device from an sdcard?
Sent from my SPH-L900 using XDA-Developers mobile app
Finally that was effectively the USB connection wire between the mainboard and the usb dock connector
(nappe in french, don't know the english word)
It works fine now
Not sure you can flash from sd card until you don't have access to the system command.. :/
Hello all, I've ported (or rooted?) one of my Nook HD+ tablets to Android 5.1 using the process given by PeteInSequim here. The process went well, and the tablet works great except for one thing. When I connect the Nook to my Acer laptop running Windows 10 Pro, via the usb cable, Windows Explorer does not recognize it, nor does it show up in device manager, and it did prior to the upgrade. If I remove the external microsd card and use the Acer card slot, I can access it. I want to be able to put some games on it for an elderly friend of mine who has trouble using a regular computer / laptop and likes a touch screen. Am I missing something ie. drivers or some other software? Is it possible to side load 5.1 using the laptop versus the wifi on the tablet to decrease the download time? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Roger
rmissildine said:
Hello all, I've ported (or rooted?) one of my Nook HD+ tablets to Android 5.1 using the process given by PeteInSequim here. The process went well, and the tablet works great except for one thing. When I connect the Nook to my Acer laptop running Windows 10 Pro, via the usb cable, Windows Explorer does not recognize it, nor does it show up in device manager, and it did prior to the upgrade. If I remove the external microsd card and use the Acer card slot, I can access it. I want to be able to put some games on it for an elderly friend of mine who has trouble using a regular computer / laptop and likes a touch screen. Am I missing something ie. drivers or some other software? Is it possible to side load 5.1 using the laptop versus the wifi on the tablet to decrease the download time? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Roger
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Sorry, I went ahead and upgraded to Nougat and now file explorer sees the nook...
Thanks anyway,
Roger