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15Nov/12I have owned the Viliv S10 Blade, a Windows-based 10' convertible tablet, for a few years and until now it was a device desperately looking for a suitable operating system. Windows 7 came installed on the S10, but its bloat, overhead, and lack of touch friendly interface made the Viliv S10 no more useful than a ruefully overpriced bargain basement netbook. Flash forward several years and the world has come to embrace the tablet, and Microsoft has re-imagined its operating system with a finger-driven touch interface in mind. I was eager to see if Windows 8 could finally make my Viliv S10 what it always should have been.
The good news is that the Windows 8 experience on the Viliv is quite a bit better than the Windows 7 experience; the bad news is that the device is still too laggy (CPU too slow and memory too low) and unable to deliver the fluid, effortless experience you've come to expect from even the lowliest Android or Apple tablet. Nonetheless, if you've got a Viliv S10 you'd be a fool not to squeeze a better experience out of the convertible tablet you already own.I am hoping to save you the pain I experienced trying to get Windows 8 installed on the Viliv S10 Blade, so read on! Installing Windows 8The Viliv S10 Blade has no CD/DVD-ROM drive so you will need to either do a download-based installation of Windows 8 or you'll need to copy the contents of the Windows 8 DVD onto the Viliv (the DVD contents is approximately 2.8 GB) from a DVD drive shared from another computer or via a USB memory stick or SD card.
When you're ready, begin the install.The first thing you'll need to decide is what type of install you'll do, will you keep your user data or your user data and applications/settings. In the ideal world you would want to keep your applications/settings but I tried repeatedly to do an in-place upgrade keeping all my applications and settings (as well as user data) and was unsuccessful. During each install it would hang during the 'Getting Devices Ready' step, hanging at 81% (I left it there for 23 hours on one install). After each failure it restores your computer to its pre-install state. I tried uninstalling various software, removing various drivers, and disabling various services within Windows 7 before restarting the Windows 8 install and nothing made a difference; the installation wouldn't get beyond 'getting devices ready'. Ultimately I chose the option which kept only my user data and the install completed successfully.
If your install behaves as mine did you will need to also try the option of keeping only user data.Once the installation is done you will discover that you have no Internet connection. Do not attempt to turn on the wifi device with the Fn + F2 key combination. Proceed to the next section.
Calibrate the ScreenYou will likely find on install that the touch screen is uselessly mis-calibrated. Fortunately the fix is easy, just use the touch pad to go to the Control Panel and do a search for 'calibrate' and then do the touch screen calibration. Your touch screen will now work properly. Fixing WifiThree things prevent your wifi from working after the Windows 8 install. 1) Your wifi module is off (and thus Windows doesn't detect it), 2) No suitable drivers are included with the Windows 8 install files, and 3) the available Windows 7 wifi driver will not work without a 'patch'. Step 1: Turn on your wifi module.Press Fn + F2. You can verify in Windows Device Manager that the device is no on, it will appear as an unknown device.
Step 2: Download Necessary FilesBy way of I found the trick to getting wifi working. A Viliv S7 owner shared the necessary files and his description of the solution (written in Korean).(on another computer) and download the following files: s7fix.zip, WifiDriver.zip, and AddTakeOwnership.reg; do a keyword search on the page and you will find the links to the files. Copy these files to your Viliv via SD card, USB stick, etc. Step 3: Execute AddTakeOwnership.regDouble click the registry key file AddTakeOwnership.reg to merge it into the registry.
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It will create a new item called 'Take Ownership' when you right click a file or folder in Explorer. This will give your user access to that file or folder. You will need this. Step 4: Install WifiDriver.zipUnpack the WifiDriver.zip then go into the Device Manager. On the Marvell and choose 'Update Driver Software.' When prompted in the device installation point to that folder. Step 5: Apply the PatchGo into Explorer and right click the C:WindowsSystem32Drivers folder.
Choose the Take Ownership option from the context menu. With that done, unzip the S7fix.zip file you downloaded and copy the contents of it into C:WindowsSystem32Drivers (overwriting the files already in that folder).
You may want to make a backup copy of the affected files, just in case you want to restore your machine to its original state. Step 6: Enjoy Your Wifi!Your wifi should now work! If it doesn't, try a reboot.
Installing Graphics DriverThe default Windows 8 install uses a generic Windows graphics driver for the Viliv which lacks the graphic acceleration and screen resolution options of the Intel GMA 500 graphics card in the Viliv S10. It is a very good idea to install this official driver from Intel:.To install you need to unzip the download to a folder and set the compatibility mode of 'Windows 7' before running the Setup.exe. The install will then proceed normally. Installing Additional Viliv Software / DriversThough none are necessary, you may want to install additional Viliv-specific drivers.
Viliv X70 Wifi Driver Download
In general Windows 7 drivers are compatible with Windows 8, so. ConclusionsI've been running Windows 8 on my Viliv S10 Blade for a couple of weeks now and the experience has been mixed. Part of the blame can be placed on Windows 8 which is a curious hybrid operating system, trying to be both entirely touch and mouse friendly while being exclusively neither. You are routinely forced to use apps of both flavors to perform tasks, Windows having provided their new UI approach for only a small subset of routine OS and administrative tasks.
The largest frustration with the Viliv and Windows 8 is the lackluster performance, most of the new Windows Store delivered apps work quite well but only if the operating system isn't doing something at the time, and in-app actions like loading resources can make the experience painfully laggy. I suspect if the Viliv had an additional gigabyte of RAM the experience would have been dramatically improved. Still, compared to my absolutely miserable experience of the Viliv with Windows 7 I am at least pleased that my Viliv now once again has a purpose in life. Hope you find renewed pleasure in yours as well. I’m convinced the 1 GB limit of the Viliv S10 is it’s Achilles’s heel, were it not for that it wouldn’t stutter and hang so often as it caches to and subsequently reads from disk. I’m pretty sure it can’t take any more memory, I wish to god I was wrong, but I’m pretty sure it’s a motherboard/chipset limit of some sort. If you ever find a way please, please tell me!
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I’ll be interested to hear how your Windows 8 experience is with it. It’s definitely more usable than it was, I mean multi-touch with Windows 7 and its desktop browsers was utterly useless and now it’s suddenly, delightfully very iAndroid like! But the darn thing still responds a little more slowly than I’d like. Still, whereas before I would never bother taking the Viliv S10 to the couch to casually browse the web or read an article, now I actually might.