I've been messing with the new ASUS T100 Transformer T100TA and found a few boot key combinations through trial and error. I hope someone else can make use of them.
Hold the listed key while powering on the tablet.
ESC: Boot device selection menu
DEL: Boot into BIOS Setup (same as F2)
F2: Boot into BIOS Setup
F9: Boot into windows recovery mode
F12: Not sure what this is, it briefly flashes "Launching FFU.efi" then print "Main Start" and sits there
Vol Down: Boot Device Selection Menu
I tried each button on the top row of the keyboard plus: tab, alt, ctrl,fn, windows. In case anyone want to try other stuff.
blank..
not sure why but im drawing a blank here.
I cant get any bios options regardless of holding escape or f2 or delete while powering up my t100
cant figure out why?
And a question - does the bios look like any other or is it just like the "additional options page" you get when booting into recovery options, kinda like a win8 boot screen with efi option or restore etc.
i assumed i would see a proper bios but i just cant seem to get any key to do a thing - it just boots normally, i do have the latest 220 bios.
Thanks.
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terminal 7 said:
not sure why but im drawing a blank here.
I cant get any bios options regardless of holding escape or f2 or delete while powering up my t100
cant figure out why?
And a question - does the bios look like any other or is it just like the "additional options page" you get when booting into recovery options, kinda like a win8 boot screen with efi option or restore etc.
i assumed i would see a proper bios but i just cant seem to get any key to do a thing - it just boots normally, i do have the latest 220 bios.
Thanks.
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With F2 you should see a normal bios screen.
My guess is that you are doing a shutdown from in win 8, then turning on with the F2 key pressed.
Try doing a restart from in Win 8 and start holding F2 as soon as the screen goes blank.
By default win8 has "fast boot" enabled, which means it doesn't do a proper boot from bios when you turn of after a "shutdown" from in win8
Hope that helps.
sarman_1998 said:
I've been messing with the new ASUS T100 Transformer T100TA and found a few boot key combinations through trial and error. I hope someone else can make use of them.
Hold the listed key while powering on the tablet.
ESC: Boot device selection menu
DEL: Boot into BIOS Setup (same as F2)
F2: Boot into BIOS Setup
F9: Boot into windows recovery mode
F12: Not sure what this is, it briefly flashes "Launching FFU.efi" then print "Main Start" and sits there
Vol Down: Boot Device Selection Menu
I tried each button on the top row of the keyboard plus: tab, alt, ctrl,fn, windows. In case anyone want to try other stuff.
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Very useful. Thanks for those.
Holding Vol Up with power can help when it doesn't want to boot too IIRC.
Solving problem
Faced with the same problem after regular Windows 8.1 update.
Really thanks for advise given above.
To finally solve the problem just reset bios settings to default.
T100 Windows 10 Evaluation
In my zeal to explore the capabilities of my new T100TAF, I tried to install the Windows 10 Evaluation 10041. It kind of installed OK at first but now I have no WiFi and it will not allow me to do anything as the screen flashes and never settles down. I have tried to boot into retsore and reset it but I get errors. Any ideas?
boot from USB Asus t100ta
Hi everyone
A few days ago I was trying to install the preview of windows 10 on my Asus t100ta but looks like that system wasn't compatible with some software of the PC and I wanted to do the factory reset by pressing F9, when it was trying to restore I got a message saying "winload.efi is missing" then I tried to boot with a USB but doesn't work, I tried disabling the security boot. And nothing works. If someone please can help I have 4 days trying with none results :crying:
That is because the Asus T100 Tablet has an android based Windows 8/8.1 installed. I know that somewhere I had found information on downloading the Android based Windows as well as creating an installation USB of the Android based Windows. The Asus T100TA I have came with the x86 (32-bit) but, has an x64 based architecture allowing for the Android Windows x64 (64-bit) to be installed. To add, the tablet can have Android Apps installed in it as well. Think of it as a big Android phone (of course, you can't make calls unless you have something like Skype LOL!). I hope this helps.
UEFI allows 32 bit O.S's ONLY.
Ibuprophen said:
That is because the Asus T100 Tablet has an android based Windows 8/8.1 installed. I know that somewhere I had found information on downloading the Android based Windows as well as creating an installation USB of the Android based Windows. The Asus T100TA I have came with the x86 (32-bit) but, has an x64 based architecture allowing for the Android Windows x64 (64-bit) to be installed. To add, the tablet can have Android Apps installed in it as well. Think of it as a big Android phone (of course, you can't make calls unless you have something like Skype LOL!). I hope this helps.
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android or not, this is windows 8.1, it is NOT possible to (at this writing) to install a 64 bit based O.S. on this t100ta. while it does contain the architecture, the killer is the UEFI which is only 32 bit capable.
On my Asus Transformer T100 Chi, I have found that Volume Up plus power key boots you into the recovery menu. This also works on Lenovo tablets.
BTW, I have never heard of "Android based Windows". That seems like an oxymoron to me
cushcalc said:
On my Asus Transformer T100 Chi, I have found that Volume Up plus power key boots you into the recovery menu. This also works on Lenovo tablets.
BTW, I have never heard of "Android based Windows". That seems like an oxymoron to me
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Agrred, Android based windows, like wut. One is made by google and the other by microsoft. Not to mention all C++, c# and DOS code is directly incompatible with arm (what andorid uses). I mean yes some android phones are 64 bit and stuff but thats arm64 NOT the AMD64 standard that desktops and laptops use. The 32 bit x86 standard that laptops use is called i386 and was developed by intel. amd64 was developed by amd then purchased by intel who license amd to still use it. This is exactly why only Intel and AMD make desktop and laptop processors.
Companies like snapdragon simply take ARM chip designs and change them into their own processor, but its still an ARM based processor.
Two entirely different architectures, one designed for low power, standby , small screens and apps, the other for MAJOR general purpose use.
Take my word on this, the two will never merge
It's a true that ARM chip is an essentially simplified AMD CPU chip developed for portable devices such as smart phones, tablets etc. where performance requirements aren't so high and lower power consumption is important. I also understand, that apps and executable or install files for Windows PC are not compatibile for Windows ARM platform because of insufficient capability.
But how is possible, that ASUS T100TA with (supposedly) "ARM" CPU chip is seamlessly able to run with full featured Windows 10 PRO (for PC)... ?
HANS4300 said:
It's a true that ARM chip is an essentially simplified AMD CPU chip developed for portable devices such as smart phones, tablets etc. where performance requirements aren't so high and lower power consumption is important. I also understand, that apps and executable or install files for Windows PC are not compatibile for Windows ARM platform because of insufficient capability.
But how is possible, that ASUS T100TA with (supposedly) "ARM" CPU chip is seamlessly able to run with full featured Windows 10 PRO (for PC)... ?
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ARM is essentially not a simplified AMD cpu, other than both starting with the letter 'A' the similarity stops. One is CISC architecture the other is RISC. There's no single intersection between the two, AMD has not been involved with the development of the architecture.
The ASUS T100 uses an Intel atom cpu. which is an 64 bit x86 core from Intel. (but since the T100 only has a 32bit UEFI, it's impossible to run a 64bit OS).
The T100 is not a PC, since it's using SDIO for internal communication instead of PCIE, making it more a tablet than a PC, this is why it's a bother getting linux to work on the device, since SDIO support is rather experimental and immature.
Windows 10 (and 8) is suited to run on x86 cpu's with SDIO connecting everything else.
Android on the other hand is running a modified Linux kernel making it having to do exactly nothing with windows, and the other way around.
Windows 10 is able to run on the arm architecture btw, look at the surface rt with the tegra, and there should also be a port able to run on the raspberry pi.
(Addressing a few incorrect statements found in this thread.)
The T100TA is not Android based. It will accept a Windows 10 32 bit upgrade. Don't try and boot from Windows 10 media. Run 8.1 and run the setup.exe program to start the upgrade. I upgraded my 32 GB system to 10 without problems.
It will run a 64 bit OS, but requires bootia32.efi putting in the \EFI\boot folder. There are various versions of bootia32.efi, some of which do not work.
i have asus t100ta ang i change my hardisk ang i want to install windows 10 can some help
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The T100TA is not Android based. It will accept a Windows 10 32 bit upgrade. Don't try and boot from Windows 10 media. Run 8.1 and run the setup.exe program to start the upgrade. I upgraded my 32 GB system to 10 without problems.
It will run a 64 bit OS, but requires bootia32.efi putting in the \EFI\boot folder. There are various versions of bootia32.efi, some of which do not work.
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were you able to instal windows 10 64bit on T100-TAF successfully ?
because when I try to install it says my CPU does not support 64 bit although when I checked on intel website its 64bit CPU but I guess the EFI for boot loader is only 32 bit !
can you explain how I can install 64bit on mine ?
Thank you!
I was trying to boot my ASUS T101HA from a USB disk, but all I found said to press F2 for the BIOS, which didn't work (probably because secure boot). Windows 10 64-bit was not starting up, so I could not start the restore from there.
Nobody said I could use the Esc key to choose the boot disk, but it worked!
ASUS T100 TA (Recovery or Reset) F9/Power
If anyone is interested... For ASUS Transformer T100 TA Win 10: While holding down F9 key, Press & Hold down the Power key until "Wait a minute" shows up: This Boots into Windows recovery mode with options to completely Reset to factory or Refresh. Do not need Password. I had forgotten mine & so had my daughter on hers...or more likely it's a flaw in the system or crap update...I do see a lot of requests on line looking for ways to reset the password on this "Laplet", & F9/Power was the only method that worked on both. In 20 years of using computers; I had never forgotten my passwords or had she. I spent hours searching for a work-around, hence the reason for me posting this here to help out anyone else. Sláinte :fingers-crossed:
sarman_1998 said:
I've been messing with the new ASUS T100 Transformer T100TA and found a few boot key combinations through trial and error. I hope someone else can make use of them.
Hold the listed key while powering on the tablet.
ESC: Boot device selection menu
DEL: Boot into BIOS Setup (same as F2)
F2: Boot into BIOS Setup
F9: Boot into windows recovery mode
F12: Not sure what this is, it briefly flashes "Launching FFU.efi" then print "Main Start" and sits there
Vol Down: Boot Device Selection Menu
I tried each button on the top row of the keyboard plus: tab, alt, ctrl,fn, windows. In case anyone want to try other stuff.
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Thanks for sharing! The volume down + power also works with Surface Pro 4 tablet.
Thank you, Hold power and volume up then go to Enter BIOS, then disable the Boot Priority, and re-install your windows 10 again, if you want.
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My Samsung Intercept wont connect to my computer, everytime I plug it in, I get USB device not recognized, how can I get it to be recognized? Im running android 2.2.1, and my computer is running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
I tried posting a link but the spam prevention police apparently wont let me post links until I have 8 posts. So I'll just quote:
First I tried to use Win 7′s XP mode, which was a total failure. The Windows stock Virtual PC cannot control any devices, it just reads them as belonging to the real computer. After a lot of searching I found the open source Oracle Virtual Box, which is Windows Virtual PC on crack. With Virtual Box, you can mount any number of operating systems to play around with. As a bonus it has the capability to see external devices as its own. All you need is an install disk for your operating system of choice. I had gotten the Intercept to work with both XP and 7 32 bit, so I chose to install a Win 7 32 virtual machine.
For all the specifics on how to install a virtual operating system in Virtual Box, read the user manual. Its large and technical, but skimming the first two chapters should tell you all you need to know to get started. The short version, you set up a partition for your virtual machine, you then “boot” the virtual machine with the install disk of your operating system of choice. You then go through all the normal installation steps, and bingo-bango you now have a virtual copy of XP/7/whatever.
Here is where things get hazy. I was under the impression that the virtual machine would be where I would see the phone. However for mysterious reasons, suddenly the phone now gives me the option to mount and my main Windows 7 64 has no problem letting me into the phones drive!
I don’t know why. I can close the virtual machine and still have access when I plug in. I wish I knew what the heck was going on and how a virtual 32 bit 7 convinced a real 64 bit 7 that the Intercept is OK, but I do not. All I know is that Virtual Box somehow worked for me, perhaps it can work for you. Other than that Virtual Box is a nifty tool I should have had long ago. Good luck!
UPDATE: I wrote this a couple months ago and while it did work, I have a funny feeling that its all just pure luck as to if Windows will bother to recognize the phone. I have computers it works fine on and some that refuse to see the phone no matter what I do. The whole key is to just keep trying, something will work eventually. If all else fails get an app like SwiFTP and move on with your life.
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Retrieved from wordpress.
Thank you very much for this information, I will get to trying the Virtual Box and the SwiFTP, thank you again.
The above information you gave still didnt work :/, do you or anyone else know what I could do to fix?
Hello, I wanted to say that the whole process for the computer to see the Samsung Intercept is buggy to say the least. I have a good knowledge base of computers as I work as a Desktop Support technician for the past 10 years. I read many posts and replies. None seem to be concrete on a resolution. I tried the usual methods. I downloaded the Samsung SWUpdate+Patch. I downloaded the Sprint USB Modem drivers from Samsung's Web site. I also downloaded the custom files for the Kernel and custom recovery. The first thing I tried on all four of my computers was to install the Samsung USB Modem drivers. The second thing I did was to install the SWUpate+Patch software. My first test computer was a Compaq D500 desktop. Windows XP-SP3 with USB 1.0 ports and a USB 2.0. I placed my phone in USB Debugguing Mode. I then powered off my Phone. I held down the three magic keys to get the phone in "Download" mode. I checked Add/Remove Programs both programs were installed- Samsung USB Modem Driver and the SWUpdate. I first opened the Samsung SWUpdate program. I followed the onscreen instructions of the Samsung program. The program could not communicate with the phone. Bottom right corner of the program said disconneted. I tried chaning the Port Settings in the program to COM1, COM2, etc. All said disconnected. I tried opening the Samsung program several times. Restarting the phone, unplugging the battery etc. I also tried using a different USB cable besides the one that came with the phone. No communication. I tried the same process on another PC which had Win7Pro 32Bit SP1. Almost same results, but I had the computer install these three devices when I opened the Samsung program and connected my phone:Android UMS, S3C6410 Android ADB, CDC Abstract Control Model (ACM) I thought I was good. Status still Disconnected. I restarted the computer tried the whole process again. This time the computer gave me three messages of "Device not Recognized." So I tried a few more different was to get the drivers into Device Manager nothing worked. I even tried that PDA2net app that app wouldn't see the phone wither. Then I looked into the PDA2net directory and saw some drivers .INFs that I thought might work.. I would get a little farther, but then the driver seemed to install and partially recognize the devices, but then a message said that it could start "Error 10" So I tried another computer. Windows 7-64bit. I knew this was going to be a long shot..and it was.. Samsung USB Modem Driver not supported on this version of Windows. So I tried my work computer Win7Enterprise 32Bit. Same issues Device not recognized three or four times. I tried the two USB cables for my phone the OEM one and Aftermarket. No luck. So I had my old trusty Dell D600 laptop. WinXP-SP3 32bit USB 1.0. I installed the Samsung USB Modem driver then the Samsung SWUpate app. I got my Recover.tar file dropped into the Bin dir. I opened the Samsung SWUpdate app and holy **** the damn program was able to connect to my phone I couldn't believe it.. I wanted to take a screen shot of it working just so I could make sure it wasn't B.S. I used my laptop with an Aftermarket USB Cable. I'm not sure if it's a Data USB cable or just a charging cable. I don't think there is two different cables as I've read many times on different fourms. I'm not sure why my laptop works with the phone. When my phone did finally connect it connected on COM3. So maybe it's a port setting/IRQ. I also turned off my Firewall each time just incase it was blocking communication.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to reply. I will try to help in any way possible. I wanted to say thanks to XDA Forum and to Super-6-1 on YouTube..you guys Helped Me more than you know.!!!!!
Hello,
I have a pretty cheap but good android tablet made by craig, it is a Craig CMP 738a Android Tablet, and I was wondering with the specs that the tablet contains, that it might be able to run Windows XP.
I will do everything myself, like rebuilding the XP to run with drivers that might make the touchscreen and stuff work, but I've run into a major problem that I cannot seem to figure out.
I cannot figure out how to boot from say, a bootable flash drive on the tablet to where I can install Windows XP. I can't figure out how to load the files to install the OS. (The tablet does have a USB Port to use)
Can anyone possibly figure out how to boot from a flash drive instead of the default Android OS?
Thank you, and I would also love to try a Linux OS like Ubuntu on that tablet as well. Might be easier.
Android Tablet Specs
RAM: 256 MB
CPU: 700 MHz
HDD: 4GB Flash Memory w. External SD Card (8GB Memory)
Hardware: 7" (i think) 720x480 Resistive Touch Screen
Hard Home Button, Hard Option (menu) button, and Power Button, the back button is software.
Volume buttons and a power switch, Mini HDMI Port, USB Host, USB Port (for connecting to computer), SD Slot (up to 32GB memory).
TheRPGLPer said:
Hello,
I have a pretty cheap but good android tablet made by craig, it is a Craig CMP 738a Android Tablet, and I was wondering with the specs that the tablet contains, that it might be able to run Windows XP.
I will do everything myself, like rebuilding the XP to run with drivers that might make the touchscreen and stuff work, but I've run into a major problem that I cannot seem to figure out.
I cannot figure out how to boot from say, a bootable flash drive on the tablet to where I can install Windows XP. I can't figure out how to load the files to install the OS. (The tablet does have a USB Port to use)
Can anyone possibly figure out how to boot from a flash drive instead of the default Android OS?
Thank you, and I would also love to try a Linux OS like Ubuntu on that tablet as well. Might be easier.
Android Tablet Specs
RAM: 256 MB
CPU: 700 MHz
HDD: 4GB Flash Memory w. External SD Card (8GB Memory)
Hardware: 7" (i think) 720x480 Resistive Touch Screen
Hard Home Button, Hard Option (menu) button, and Power Button, the back button is software.
Volume buttons and a power switch, Mini HDMI Port, USB Host, USB Port (for connecting to computer), SD Slot (up to 32GB memory).
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I don't believe your tab has the power to run XP. You'd need at least a gig of ram. Also this project is futile. You'd need to compile a new boot loader and technically it would be illegal based on Microsoft software stuff. It's a nice idea but just buy a Windows tab. In the end it'll be cheaper lol.
Its damn near impossible considering we don't have the source code for XP. All programs that run on desktops and laptops are compiled to run on x86 processors, just about all mobile devices are using ARM processors so you would need to recompile the code for ARM.
All it was really was an idea to do in my free time, and no source code for XP would be a problem, though, I do have 98 laying around somewhere. What about linux? Would that be easier to do?
EDIT: I've solved the booting problem though. I just need to unlock the device's bootloader. I need to know how to enter bootloader mode on this device though, can I do it through ADB? It is a rooted device.
Hey XDA,
I recently bought a cheap Android TV Stick, a MK908 to be precise. I did't pay much for it, because the previous owner said it didn't work well. Indeed it doesn't really function like it should (sometimes boots regularly, sometimes shows glitches and just reboots), so I decided to flash another firmware to see what that does.
However, it doesn't seem to work. I obviously have read how to flash, so to connect the stick with the OTG-port, press the button and connect it to pc while the button is pressed. But windows tells me it found a new usb-device, and not even a second later it tells me the device is disconnected. I am using windows 8.1 in a virtual machine on a macbook through vmware fusion. OS X (10.9) is completely up to date, windows too. I have told vmware to always connect the tv-stick to the virtual machine, not to the mac.
Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this? Below is an image of the internals of the stick.
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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
xdevi1 said:
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
Hello,
I've just purchased a Cenovo Mini PC 2 (Atom Z8300 Cherry Trail 4/64 GB). Which runs fine, other that it overheats (temperatures up to 80 C, and then it hangs).
Anyone else with this particular model? I'm looking for a DIY solution for a better cooling.
Another issue that I'm having is being unable to enter the BIOS (any keyboard key at startup doesn't do a thing).
Update...I've stress tested the PC through the Aida64 System Stability test, which ran 4 hrs without freezing the system. Max temp was 85C but the system remained stable.
I did not suceed to reproduce sys freezing and will post further details.
Other than that I haven't been able to enter the BIOS. Also I didn't get the reply from the Cenovo support (a week passed from contacting them).
Update #2
It seems that the issue is the graphics driver. Updating to a newer version doesn't solve the problem. Manufacturer (Cenovo) should provide the updated drivers, but they don't have the customer support so...
Last update. Problem was with the Intel graphics driver. When the driver is removed, the PC works flawlessly. I'm now trying the various versions of Intel HD drivers. There is no drivers from the manufacturer though.
Hi for the latest hd drivers and not only that you have to install the Intel Driver Update Utility
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html
and automatically will install all the latest drivers
for the bios that is odd usually with the delete or esc button you should enter the bios set up in my case thats how i do it in pipo x7 and by the way i am also waiting for mine cenovo mini pc 2 lets see how it will perform.
Hello, i had the overheating problems and i install one little fan on top, you can see on you tube if you search cenovo mini pc 2 problems.
I enter the bios pressing escape on boot
I have no sound after some updates of the drivers with SDI
Any idea how i can install windows 7 on this box?
Hello all,
I've used Intel Update Utility. Both drivers which the application displays as suited are not good - they cause random crashes. I always do a clean install, using DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller).
Also I can't find the audio driver - when the system initially came preinstalled it functioned. After reset of a Windows, audio does not work (for me not an issue since I have USB sound card much better than one installed).
I'm currently using this little thing without Intel GPU drivers and it is stable (running days without a problem), but without GPU acceleration (which also is not a big issue, because everything in 2d works just about the same, even 1080p Youtube and videos).
Confirmed - Esc on boot enters the BIOS - thanks.
Maybe, just maybe, high temperatures are cause of Intel GPU driver messing up the system?
Nikolarasbig said:
Hello, i had the overheating problems and i install one little fan on top, you can see on you tube if you search cenovo mini pc 2 problems.
I enter the bios pressing escape on boot
I have no sound after some updates of the drivers with SDI
Any idea how i can install windows 7 on this box?
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Since the BIOS is accessible, one can try to use Win7 installation USB, and to try booting from that.
I suppose it is doable, but the issue would probably be the drivers.
Nikolarasbig said:
Hello, i had the overheating problems and i install one little fan on top, you can see on you tube if you search cenovo mini pc 2 problems.
I enter the bios pressing escape on boot
I have no sound after some updates of the drivers with SDI
Any idea how i can install windows 7 on this box?
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Confirmed with esc button you enter the bios, good mod Νικο i will try with some thermal pads between the heatsink and the plate elevate the cenovo with some bottle caps and put a fan below and if i dont get any drops in temps then the alternative is to make the mod you make, i dont think you can install windows 7 it was a long talk since the pipo x7 but cannot be done due to uefi here is a link i ve found but use at your own risk http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...e-firmware-interface-install-windows-7-a.html
I do not recomended.
tarmiricmitarmiricmi said:
Hello all,
I've used Intel Update Utility. Both drivers which the application displays as suited are not good - they cause random crashes. I always do a clean install, using DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller).
Also I can't find the audio driver - when the system initially came preinstalled it functioned. After reset of a Windows, audio does not work (for me not an issue since I have USB sound card much better than one installed).
I'm currently using this little thing without Intel GPU drivers and it is stable (running days without a problem), but without GPU acceleration (which also is not a big issue, because everything in 2d works just about the same, even 1080p Youtube and videos).
Maybe, just maybe, high temperatures are cause of Intel GPU driver messing up the system?
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I dont think is the gpu driver its the space of the cenovo to compact no airways to get hot air out the same isuues short of had the pipo x7 but x7 was made from aluminium and with a little moding (heatsinks,thermal pads, and a fan to the side never passed 50c)
windows still crashes
Before the mod i try one Laptop Cooling Pad and i take some more minutes before windows crash. The air not flow properly because they make holes only in the bottom.
I also replace the thermal pad between the heatsink and the cpu with a little medal plague and thermal silicone. The temp now is 45-50 c but i still have some problems.
The box can play hd youtube videos for hours, but it freeze finally when nothing is running on windows.
I replace the power supply, and some vga drivers but the problem of freezing continue...
Nikolarasbig said:
Before the mod i try one Laptop Cooling Pad and i take some more minutes before windows crash. The air not flow properly because they make holes only in the bottom.
I also replace the thermal pad between the heatsink and the cpu with a little medal plague and thermal silicone. The temp now is 45-50 c but i still have some problems.
The box can play hd youtube videos for hours, but it freeze finally when nothing is running on windows.
I replace the power supply, and some vga drivers but the problem of freezing continue...
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Try uninstalling and cleaning the display drivers with DDU - Display Driver Uninstaller.
Then use just generic Microsoft driver and test the unit.
I have exactly the same problem with Intel drivers....otherwise the mini pc runs stable and fine, no matter what you throw at it (albeit without GPU acceleration but I don't play 3D games on it its slow for that anyhow)
As for the mounting fan on it, I really wanted a silent PC and don't want to do that (there are other passive methods but one must disassemble case - don't want that either).
Fan
Thanks tarmiricmitarmiricmi i will try your way with drivers.
The fan i use, is 12 volts and i give only 5 volts from the usb plug (red +, black - ) and the fan is silent because run in slower speed because the volts.
Nikolarasbig said:
Thanks tarmiricmitarmiricmi i will try your way with drivers.
The fan i use, is 12 volts and i give only 5 volts from the usb plug (red +, black - ) and the fan is silent because run in slower speed because the volts.
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I saw your video on Youtube - it is a good solution. However, there are other things that could be improved in order to improve air flow. Thermal pad could be replaced with this, and instead a aluminion/iron plate (that you took off), a copper one could be installed (copper is better insulating material than those two). I think that with those mods temperature would be lower 5-10 degrees C. But I do not want to invest a penny in the unit It is actually now running as my only PC and it suits my needs really good (for now - light use).
Problem with the GPU drivers uninstalling is Windows Update. When you uninstall Intel drivers and reboot the system, Windows Update will automatically locate drivers from the MS server, and download and install them (with the same problems - freezing again). Now, Windows Update in Win 10 can't be disabled / or some of the updates cannot be marked to be not downloaded as on a Win7/8 (MS really messed up Win10 update). They provided the fix which can do that.
Now, what you need to do is:
1. Download Display Driver Uninstaller,
2. Run it in Safe mode , remove the driver and reboot,
3. Download this
4. Start it, find the Windows Update Intel drivers and hide it,
5. Voila. Now you can use Mini PC 2 with generic MS drivers (without freezing) and without automatic updating of Intel GPU drivers (again).
Well did some testing my self 30 minutes youtube videos 1080p max temp 60c, then test a movie in kodi about 20 minutes playback max temp 53c no freezing in both tests only thing i did was as i said a themal pad between heatsink and the plate and also put a fan underneath the cenovo.
xloupas said:
Well did some testing my self 30 minutes youtube videos 1080p max temp 60c, then test a movie in kodi about 20 minutes playback max temp 53c no freezing in both tests only thing i did was as i said a themal pad between heatsink and the plate and also put a fan underneath the cenovo.
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That is with the display driver removed?
tarmiricmitarmiricmi said:
That is with the display driver removed?
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No with the dispaly driver as it was haven't changed anything in software.
Update for the cenovo mini pc 2
I contact with the company who sell me the cenovo, they say try to reinstall windows from the recovery partition.
After the recovery, the cenovo still freeze if i do nothing for 2-3 min.
The windows ask for activation and don't activate with the serial of cenovo
I contact again with the company and they send me one crack on my mail to activate windows.
Before cenovo i use the Mini M8S TV Box Quad-core Amlogic S905 Android 5.1 2GB RAM 8GB ROM and i was very satisfied with the 1/3 of the money of cenovo...
tarmiricmitarmiricmi said:
I saw your video on Youtube - it is a good solution. However, there are other things that could be improved in order to improve air flow. Thermal pad could be replaced with this, and instead a aluminion/iron plate (that you took off), a copper one could be installed (copper is better insulating material than those two). I think that with those mods temperature would be lower 5-10 degrees C. But I do not want to invest a penny in the unit It is actually now running as my only PC and it suits my needs really good (for now - light use).
Problem with the GPU drivers uninstalling is Windows Update. When you uninstall Intel drivers and reboot the system, Windows Update will automatically locate drivers from the MS server, and download and install them (with the same problems - freezing again). Now, Windows Update in Win 10 can't be disabled / or some of the updates cannot be marked to be not downloaded as on a Win7/8 (MS really messed up Win10 update). They provided the fix which can do that.
Now, what you need to do is:
1. Download Display Driver Uninstaller,
2. Run it in Safe mode , remove the driver and reboot,
3. Download this
4. Start it, find the Windows Update Intel drivers and hide it,
5. Voila. Now you can use Mini PC 2 with generic MS drivers (without freezing) and without automatic updating of Intel GPU drivers (again).
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The link is dead in step 3 so if anyone need it you can download it from here http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/2/2/F22D5FDB-59CD-4275-8C95-1BE17BF70B21/wushowhide.diagcab
Even though i dont need it because my unit runs great hope that will help others.
I'm expecting to receive my own 4/64 unit in about three weeks. Thanks for all the operating knowledge database you're providing in this thread, guys.
I plan on using the box in addition to my current Mini M8S II (905X) box which is running excellently.
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