Comments on: Windows 7 on the Viliv S5 UMPC – an Update http://gigaom.com/mobile/windows-7-on-the-viliv-s5-umpc-an-update/ Sun, 27 May 2012 08:45:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Richard L. http://gigaom.com/mobile/windows-7-on-the-viliv-s5-umpc-an-update/#comment-417275 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:14:22 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34927#comment-417275 Hi James,

Gottabemobile just posted that myviliv has new drivers for Windows 7 for the S5. Are you going to retry to install Windows 7?

]]> By: Joseph http://gigaom.com/mobile/windows-7-on-the-viliv-s5-umpc-an-update/#comment-417274 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:14:27 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34927#comment-417274 Aw dang! Can’t believe I missed that in the pamphlet. Well that made things a whole lot easier :D
Thanks a lot jk!

]]> By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/mobile/windows-7-on-the-viliv-s5-umpc-an-update/#comment-417273 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:03:39 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34927#comment-417273 Getting back to XP is easy, just run the OS restore from the h/w buttons. Check the pamphlet that came with the S5, it’s easy to do and only takes about 20 minutes.

]]> By: Joseph http://gigaom.com/mobile/windows-7-on-the-viliv-s5-umpc-an-update/#comment-417272 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:45:48 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34927#comment-417272 It came installed with XP. It had all the tid-bit drivers that was descripted in the box and all. Just that a friend of mine convinced me to try installing Windows 7 on it. He did it for me, but made sure to not over-write the previous OS. I’m trying to get back to XP from Windows 7, which I’m not too sure about.

]]> By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/mobile/windows-7-on-the-viliv-s5-umpc-an-update/#comment-417271 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:02:04 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34927#comment-417271 Did your S5 come installed with XP? If with Vista, then you don’t have everything you need driver-wise.

]]> By: Joseph http://gigaom.com/mobile/windows-7-on-the-viliv-s5-umpc-an-update/#comment-417270 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:43:42 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34927#comment-417270 Hey James! Hope ya can help me out here.. I’ve tried installing Windows 7 on the S5.. and had lots of trouble finally getting it through. But I experienced so many other inconveniences that you’ve also mentioned in your reviews and blogs. So I’m planning to switch back down to Windows XP.. I’ve actually still have the Windows XP old file recovered on my Viliv, but I don’t have much of a clue on how to recover my Viliv back to XP. I’ve got an ok Idea how it works with Vista but not too sure with 7. Any help, info, hints, leads, etc.. would greatly appreciated! ^^ hope you can help.. I’ve been driving myself insane trying to fix this problem. hehe

]]> By: Rob http://gigaom.com/mobile/windows-7-on-the-viliv-s5-umpc-an-update/#comment-417269 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:10:13 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34927#comment-417269 you have to attach a keyboard and press the delete key during the Viliv splash screen to get to BIOS. pressing the D pad during boot only gets you to the AMI rescue screen

]]> By: Gary http://gigaom.com/mobile/windows-7-on-the-viliv-s5-umpc-an-update/#comment-417268 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:01:02 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34927#comment-417268 Pressing the d-pad button gets me to the AMI preboot with 2 options, normal boot, and “recovery boot”. NEITHER of which gets me to a BIOS screen.

So what’s the _real_ magic to getting to the BIOS screen w/out having to attach a keyboard. Which defeats the purpose as I can’t, then, select to boot off of the usb because no usb drive is attached.

]]> By: Will http://gigaom.com/mobile/windows-7-on-the-viliv-s5-umpc-an-update/#comment-417267 Wed, 20 May 2009 09:59:59 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34927#comment-417267 Does anyone have a list of chipsets for this? Knowing the touchscreen’s chipset make+model, wireless chipset, IDE, etc, should make it easy to work out how well Linux might run on it.
Touchscreen support in kernel 2.6.28+ and latest X.Org is very solid and seems to cover quite a few more touch-screens cf. when I orginally fought with my Samsung Q1….
I also noticed Viliv’s X7O supports Linux, and I’m guessing they’re sharing several chipsets across models to control costs.

]]> By: TempusFugit http://gigaom.com/mobile/windows-7-on-the-viliv-s5-umpc-an-update/#comment-417266 Tue, 05 May 2009 16:30:15 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34927#comment-417266 growing community at pocketables.net, http://forum.pocketables.net/showthread.php?t=2451, that would like to hear about better Windows 7 support.

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