Installing fresh Windows 10 Pro.

[Andrew W]

Yes, you will have an issue. I have posted elsewhere about this

I installed Win 10 pro after registering for Windows Insider updates.

The Fast insider updates (unsure about others) broke several OS features. I had no way to revert to an earlier build. So I reinstalled.

However touch screen doesn’t work. WiFi and Bluetooth doesn’t work.

USB and SD Do, but I am reduced to using USB keyboard and mouse.

Even if you download the driver package here from techtablets it is UNSIGNED.

So unless you know how to install unsigned drivers this is not going to be fun.

HOWEVER,

It is possible on another device (particularly another Windows 10 device) to inject/insert the drivers into the win 10 iso image.

But you must convert the iso to a .win or another format which I forget right now.

I haven’t done this yet. It is kind of annoying particularly when Cube’s own site links to the Chinese language Baidu to host their OEM version.

The latest version of Ubuntu works.better than this! I booted off SD with WiFi, BT, graphics.fully working!

[ahrlad]

That’s weird – doesn’t the Cube use exactly the same display and digitizer as the Surface Pro 2? Can’t imagine that one has any unsigned driver issues.

[mshayanh13]

I installed Windows 10 Pro and I was able to get everything to work.

After installing, get the drivers from the downloads page (techtablets) and in device manager update the software for the unknown (other) devices.

Get the Wacom Feel driver from their own page (don’t get latest, the one before latest)

That should be it.

[Zojack]

I decided to stick with the preloaded windows by recovery to the new SSD. It seems to be a good choice. Thanks.

[Andrew W]

Hey you still have recovery… Lucky you…

I mean I have the instructions to insert the drivers into a windows image but I’m not even trying… Like the rest of my life.

If I was Japanese I’d kill myself…

But I’m too busy procrastinating for that… 8P

[Ben]

I did a clean install of Windows 10 build 1607 (the new one with enhanced Ink features).  Before formatting the old install, I ran the Export-WindowsDriver command in PowerShell to make sure I could recover any drivers that aren’t available for download.

 

Export-WindowsDriver -Online -Destination d:\drivers

 

After that, it’s attaching a USB hub through the included OTG cable, so you can have both the install flash disk and a wired keyboard hooked up simultaneously.  Hit “Delete” to get into the BIOS, change the boot order, boot from the USB stick.  You can use the https://wudt.codeplex.com to make the USB bootable, it says Windows 7/8 but also works fine with 10.

I did have some problems during the “Preparing files” phase of the install due to data corruption, but that was likely just the particular USB drive I was using which got overheated.  A couple retries later, it went through fine.

SSD, Touchscreen (both display and touch input) and wifi worked out of the box, which means you don’t actually have to inject drivers into the install image, setting them up later is perfectly feasible.

The following drivers I installed using download from the websites of the companies making those parts: Wacom driver (the download for “Tablet PC”), Intel GPU, Intel WiFi, Intel Bluetooth.

Notably, the Wacom driver captured by Export-WindowsDriver installed fine but didn’t result in a working digitizer.  Use the proper installer from the Wacom website instead.

Then I went through in Device Manager and for every unrecognized device, pointed it at the directory with the drivers from Windows-ExportDriver with “search subdirectories” enabled.

Audio still wasn’t working, so I did the same for the Realtek audio device, even though it wasn’t unrecognized, the Windows 10-supplied driver didn’t work and the archived driver did.

 

It seems like a success, I now have the Windows 10 edition of my choice and no worries about some SuperFish-style exploit placed there by anyone along the supply chain.

Now I need a thermal mod and a better pen than the tiny one borrowed from my old Galaxy Note 2.

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