elan smart pad driver windows 8.1 samsung

ELAN SMART PAD DRIVER WINDOWS 8.1 SAMSUNG DRIVERS

All that was there were 2 bloatware apps and the touchpad software. Maybe that would update my device? I installed SW Update and check for updates. But I remembered that the SW Update tool was available to download. The support page had me fearing that I’d bricked the tablet.

ELAN SMART PAD DRIVER WINDOWS 8.1 SAMSUNG DRIVERS

Samsung do not share drivers for this tablet on their site. Luckily I had a USB wired network adapter. I logged in, ran Device Manager and found, yes, I was missing LOTS of drivers. Thank f**k that I bought the keyboard or I’d be royally screwed. I touched the screen – nada! I had no touch.

Huh!?!? Where was the log into my Microsoft account? Uh oh, I was missing drivers. The first clue that something was wrong was when I was asked to name a new user and set a password. Now I walked through the Windows setup, including wiping all of the existing volumes. I muddled around in here to get the command prompt, browsed to the USB drive (D:), and ran Setup.Exe. This brings you to an advanced startup menu. Turn the machine off, hold in the Volume Up button, and power it up.

Next I needed to boot the tablet up with the stick. The Windows 7 ISO Download Tool will prep a USB stick that only works with BIOS machines. And remember, this machine has an x86 processor so a 64-bit build is useless. The first step was to prep a USB stick that a UEFI machine would like. So I resorted to deploying Windows 8.1 from an ISO. From what I can tell, that’s a graphics drivers (Intel) issue that requires some McGuyver hacking to work around (not fix). I had the commonly encountered (during the Preview!!!!) issue where the machine would perform the install, including device detection, and then hang on the final boot up with a black screen and busy mouse cursor. Last week I tried twice to perform the online update of Windows 8.1 on my Samsung ATIV Smart PC 500T.

Elan smart pad driver windows 8.1 samsung