Linx Tablet drivers and BIOS downloads

kristmace

kristmace

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Hi guys,

A few people on here have bought the new Linx 7", 8" and 10" windows tablets that have just come out. They're really good value.

I've had a few issues with mine, and ended up reinstalling windows only to find a lot of missing drivers. I emailed their customer services and they've given me links to updated drivers and BIOS files.

I hope this will be useful to a few people on here:


7” updates
https://www.dropbox.com/l/zpGVxajqWyXsohu4UewERr

8” updates
https://www.dropbox.com/l/6ErTBteGPxeN9voDvbjthq

10.1” updates
https://www.dropbox.com/l/uK6NX18O4RPOVEXuehkrgp
 
Rroff said:
Thanks for that.

You should be able to pull most of the drivers through Windows update, the rest are fairly generic Intel, Realtek, etc. devices that can be grabbed from the respective web sites.

The Kionix sensor stuff might be a bit harder to find on the web.
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After I reinstalled windows I had a shed load of unknown devices, including the wifi and the touchscreen. Even after plugging an old Wifi dongle in, windows didn't automatically find some of these drivers.
 
To those trying the recovery partition over USB. I had no luck with this (On the 7" model) and ended up in a right mess. The recovery stick that was created was absolutely useless. The only way I managed to get out of it was downloading "Windows 8.1 with Bing" as an ISO and then installing it clean from a USB. Tried standard Win 8.1 but it wouldn't activate. The Bing version automatically pulls the serial from the bios and installs activated.
 
Arron17 said:
You shouldn't be removing the recovery partition at all on these tablets.

There WIMBooted, so the recovery partition is also your windows install. It runs windows from a compressed image on the recovery partition. If you remove it your removing all the windows files. There is no space to recover by deleting the partition.

If anything removing the recovery partition and then reinstalling Windows will take up more space.
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I think you're right, that would be why my tablet wouldn't boot after I created the recovery USB and deleted the recovery partition (as owners of other Win8 tablets routinely do).

After deleting the recovery partition, formatting the whole drive together and then doing a clean install of Win 8.1 w/Bing, I had a 28.4GB drive with over 20GB free. The entire drive before wasn't much bigger than the free space I'm left with after, so I don't think this is such a bad idea on the 32GB models.

To those asking for a download link for Win 8.1 w/Bing, I got it over torrent. Wouldn't want to post a link here for obvious copyright reasons.
 
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