Clean Install of Windows 10 on Asus X205TA - Problem!

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Hi,

I am posting this here, rather than under Windows 10, as it is partly hardware related.

My problem is that I would like to do a clean install of Windows 10 on to my new Asus X205TA netbook which only has built in wireless internet adapter - make unknown, but no socket!

I have got as far as installing Windows 10 from an image on a USB pen drive, but as the network adapter is not recognised, I have no internet connection.

My first thought was to purchase a Plugable USB 2.0 to 10/100 Fast Ethernet LAN Wired Network Adapter (or similar), but I now read that there is a driver problem with this device. I did wonder if it would be possible for me to install the drivers onto the USB pen drive, to select the chip in Device Manager, and let it pick up the drivers from there... which probably wouldn't work anyway!

Another option is possibly for me to plug in a USB network adapter which does have drivers already built in to the basic Windows 10 Home image... there must be one, surely!

I hope that someone can help, as unfortunately I did not keep a copy of my previous OS, so am getting a bit desperate!

Thanks in anticipation! :)

EDIT: Just had a thought... wonder if the little Edimax 'dongle' I bought for my Raspberry Pi would work... so I tried it, and it does!

Had to us the on-screen keyboard to enter the authorisation code, and am downloading the Windows 10 updates now.

Onwards and upwards! ;)
 
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Thanks for coming back to me on this one.

After much 'Googling' and installing various drivers from Intel, Broadcom and others, I think I am almost there.

One thing which is annoying me though is that in my 'Device Manager', which I like to see completely 'clean' I have the dreaded yellow triangles against two items, namely 'GPIO Buttons Driver' under 'Human Interface Devices' and also an 'Unknown Device' under 'Other Devices', although I have a feeling that these are probably connected.

Do you, or anyone else for that matter, know which drivers I have to install to sort out this problem... even if they are Windows 8.1 ones?

I was wondering if that as it is an embedded CPU (Intel Atom Z3735F 1.33 GHz) something a bit out of the ordinary might be required here... or it could have course be related to something else altogether.

All suggestions and ideas welcome! :)
 
Thanks for your reply, and as you say an upgrade does seem to find all the required drivers etc.

As I mentioned though, I would prefer to do a clean install straight into Windows 10, but am still not sure what is required to fix the GPIO driver problem, and where the correct ones can be found.

Any ideas?
 
I had the same problem on a clean install. The solution is to download the windows 8.1 chipset package from the Asus support page: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeeBook/Drivers/Chipset/Chipset_Intel_SOCPackage_X205TA_X205TAH_Win81_32_VER102.zip
Then unzip this but don't run setup. Update the driver for the unknown device by telling it to search the unzipped folder. This fixes the GPIO Button driver error at the same time. You have no microSD functionality until you do this.
Note that you will lose the free upgrade if you don't initially do it via the upgrade route. Once Win 10 is activated you can then do a format or Diskpart Clean and clean install. Ignore the prompts to input a CD Key; it will activate via the hardware signature registered when you previously activated the upgrade install.
Also the keyboard and trackpad do not work during the clean install as the MSDN image does not have the drivers. You will need a USB hub for a keyboard and mouse initially or load during them manually during the install by adding to the USB stick.
 
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