Dell Venue pro 11

Glaucus

Glaucus

Glaucus

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Anyone know how to boot from USB? The bios is terrible, created w10 USB from the media creation tool.
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Hit F12 when the pc is first starting and it should take you into the boot manager where you can select USB.
 
Hmm in that case have you tried pressing volume up instead of down when booting and selecting the USB drive from there?

EDIT: This is a separate menu I get when I press volume up on my 7140

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Not sure then I'm afraid, in my 7140 (A08 BIOS) I just press volume up while booting which takes me to the screen I posted above, go to "Change Boot Mode Settings", from there enable legacy boot, go through the prompts and it then returns me back to that menu with new options from where I can boot off a USB drive.

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Thanks depends how long you hold the up button for, to which one you get..
Got it booting from a 32bit USB but not 64bit.
Which is odd, says it's a 64bit CPU.

Can only assume they have something in to prevent 64bit?
 
neoboy said:
Hmm in that case have you tried pressing volume up instead of down when booting and selecting the USB drive from there?

EDIT: This is a separate menu I get when I press volume up on my 7140

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Surely go into BIOS SETUP, look at your boot order, and change USB to the first item, not your hard drive/DVD drive etc?

I had to do this with my Dell Optiplex 3010. USB wasn't selected in the boot order at all. I moved it to the top, done!
 
It's a bit of a weird one though even on mine, when you go into full BIOS by pressing volume down you don't see the option for the USB drive but worked with the above method.
 
it's just a terrible bios, but I've never found dell to be good with drivers, bios, CS etc.
Just one of mate used to get discounts from dell, thank god he's changed job.
 
oh well 32bit it is, just tried redoing 64bit usb on the drive I could get it to boot from and it wont, flat out refuses, boots 32bit image fine.
 
Same issue on the Dell Venue 8 Pro, the UEFI is only 32 bit even though the main processor is 64 bit. It means you can only install a 32 bit boot loader, and therefore a 32 bit OS.
 
thanks, at least that confirms it.

starting to regret not going Lenovo yoga 2, still paid my money and will live with it till I can afford something with a core m in it.
 
Not sure if it's something to do with Dell BIOS getting confused with the Atom CPU, 64bit works fine here but I am on the Core M CPU and newest Venue model. Feel free to buy mine next month when I'm done with the presentations heh, it's brilliant bit of kit but I only used it about a dozen times since October.
 
Evilpaul said:
Same issue on the Dell Venue 8 Pro, the UEFI is only 32 bit even though the main processor is 64 bit. It means you can only install a 32 bit boot loader, and therefore a 32 bit OS.
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You can use a 32bit WinPE (Windows Setup) to install a 64bit OS. All the setup does is copy the WIM file to your hard disk.

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thanks, at least that confirms it.

starting to regret not going Lenovo yoga 2, still paid my money and will live with it till I can afford something with a core m in it.
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Create your USB using the 32bit ISO and replace %USB%\sources\install.wim with the install.wim from your 64bit ISO. It "should" work.

If it doesn't i'll send you some instructions to merge the x86 and x64 WIMs in to one.
 
Right next issue, press a key on onscreen keyboard and every few words it'll type like 2-6 letters despite not pressing tithe key any longer.

Been to control panel> ease of use > keyboard but nothing seems to do anything. Wonder if those settings only apply to physical keyboards.

Seem to be a known issue with dell venue.
 
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