[Alexandra]

Get a keyboard and keep tapping F7 until you see a menu asking which device to boot from. Whatever bootable USB key you’ve inserted will appear there.

[Alexandra]

Just did some limited testing in Win10 Chrome. 1080p 30 fps seemed always a bit jerky, 720p 30 fps varied, perhaps depending on video.

Did you try Edge?

Edit: Oh, just noticed you mentioned 60 fps. That’s your problem. I don’t think the X98 Plus has the horsepower to manage YouTube 720p 60 fps or higher. It certainly didn’t when I tested it in Chrome just now. Lost cause.

[Alexandra]

And it comes up with ctrl-shift-esc if you have a physical keyboard handy.

[Alexandra]

Also, pressing power+volume down seems to simulate ctrl-alt-del (I’m guessing that’s what that menu is, I actually haven’t pressed ctrl-alt-del in Win10 yet).

[Alexandra]

OK, got it working. The reliable way here is to hold down power, then hit vol+. No need for exact timing then.

Reason it seemed to not be working for me was my Pictures folder wasn’t where I thought it was. I had moved it to sdcard earlier, but it left a location on the C drive too, which the screenshot dumps defaulted to.

[Alexandra]

Android? Windows? Which browser/app?

Lagging meaning video gets choppy / drops frames?

[Alexandra]

So when you do it, does the screen turn off? Did every time I tried (since I was hitting power, after all).

I did check My Pictures or whatnot, nothing there. I did move the folder off the C drive, if that is a factor. But I think the cap hotkey just didn’t work on mine (A5C6).

[Alexandra]

Ehh, stop badgering Gal. 😛

I could not get your power+vol screenshot command to work on mine. Another bit of X98 Plus weirdness to add to the pile.

[Alexandra]

Similar stuff has happened to me. Today I told Win10 to reboot and it seemingly shut down the system, which was completely unresponsive (even to a long power-button press) until I pressed whatever combo of volume rocker + power triggers the BIOS. It was OK after I powered off / rebooted from there.

Long story short, the X98 Plus is a little fly by night and is prone to weird errors and technical errata. Guess that comes with the low price tag.

[Alexandra]

Hi Echo, thanks for posting!

Is there any word about a BIOS update for the A5C6 (Windows-only X98 Plus)?

[Alexandra]

My tablet’s currently charging. I’ll post back if that doesn’t work. Otherwise assume it did.

Here’s a quick AutoHotKey script you can use to remap another key combo to PrintScreen. Currently it’s set to shift-ctrl-c.

Edit: Actually here’s a better idea. This is the script I personally use to take a screenshot of whatever window the mouse is over. You can paste this over the remapping command in the above script. (You will need to install the AutoHotKey binary for the script to do anything.)

{ ; take Evernote windowed screenshot (win+printscreen, then shift-click)
#`:: ; activate with winkey + tilde
SendInput, #{PrintScreen}
Sleep, 400
SendInput, {Shift down}
Sleep, 100
SendInput, {LButton}
SendInput, {Shift up}
Return
}

[Alexandra]

Ah.

Windows only. I have only had frustrating experiences trying to use Android as a web-browsing platform, and it’s definitely no good for productivity. The former may indeed be better now that Android has more CPU/GPU and RAM to work with, but I still see little need to leave Win10 since it already covers all my bases. And the 64GB disk is already cramped without a second OS.

Beyond all that, it seems like it would be asking for trouble to try and convert this easily breakable thing to dual-boot. I’m leaving well enough alone.

[Alexandra]

Do you mean the BIOS screen where it says TPAD or the Win10 login screen? Latter is easy, former I dunno.

[Alexandra]

I always have Evernote running in the background, so I can press Win+Printscreen to trigger its very capable screencap utility.

There are any number of small third party utilities you could find that would do similar or better.

You could also explore creating an AutoHotKey script to automate the Snipping Tool and then trigger it with a TouchMe gesture.

[Alexandra]

Yep, was me, hehe. Some gestures I like:

3-finger tip-tap left for start menu

3-finger tip-tap right to show task bar

3-finger swipe up/down to control brightness

4-finger tip-tap left to input ctrl-shift-esc (task manager)

4-finger swipe down to show battery status

4-finger rotate clockwise to grab/drag window

5-finger swipe down to sleep

And others I don’t recall. It’s overall pretty handy, worth the low price.

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