Hello,
i want to share my experience with a fresh windows installation, done yesterday evening.
I sufferd from a non-working windows update, for reasons unknown.
Therefore i decided to do a fresh installation.
1- create a booteble windows 10 home USB stick
2- Insert the USB-stick in one of the usb ports
3- Restart the box, end keep pressing F11, until the bios appears
4- use the arrows up/down on your keyboard to decide from what device you boot up. Choose the windows USB-Stick
5- An installation screen appears, and there are 2 options. Fresh installation that keeps settings ( option1) and option 2 offers a fresh installation, like the box is comming from the retailer.
6- I choosed option 2. I choosed to remove all partions, and start all over from scratch.
7- During the next minutes windows came with some questions, and eventually it rebooted for the last time to the desktop.
8- As per https://theminixforum.com/index.php?threads/neo-z83-4-all-drivers.76/ you have to install some drivers.
9- Download the zipfile.
10- Install 7-zip from it's current website: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
11- Unzip the downloaded zipfile
12- type device manager in the searchbar next to the windows start logo.
13- Open device manager, and install the drivers as per here.
14- Run windows update and install updates.
15- Reboot the box.
16- Voila!!! Windows has been installed like it came from the shop. It is activated as Windows 10-PRO.
17- Install from now your favorite apps, and maybe you want to upgrade the edge browser.
Hopefully i helped out some guys, and is this process easy to understand.
As a sidenote: I rebooted from a Linux Mint USB disk, and a desktop appeared as well. I believe Linux mint could be installed as well on this box.
Good luck.
i want to share my experience with a fresh windows installation, done yesterday evening.
I sufferd from a non-working windows update, for reasons unknown.
Therefore i decided to do a fresh installation.
1- create a booteble windows 10 home USB stick
2- Insert the USB-stick in one of the usb ports
3- Restart the box, end keep pressing F11, until the bios appears
4- use the arrows up/down on your keyboard to decide from what device you boot up. Choose the windows USB-Stick
5- An installation screen appears, and there are 2 options. Fresh installation that keeps settings ( option1) and option 2 offers a fresh installation, like the box is comming from the retailer.
6- I choosed option 2. I choosed to remove all partions, and start all over from scratch.
7- During the next minutes windows came with some questions, and eventually it rebooted for the last time to the desktop.
8- As per https://theminixforum.com/index.php?threads/neo-z83-4-all-drivers.76/ you have to install some drivers.
9- Download the zipfile.
10- Install 7-zip from it's current website: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
11- Unzip the downloaded zipfile
12- type device manager in the searchbar next to the windows start logo.
13- Open device manager, and install the drivers as per here.
14- Run windows update and install updates.
15- Reboot the box.
16- Voila!!! Windows has been installed like it came from the shop. It is activated as Windows 10-PRO.
17- Install from now your favorite apps, and maybe you want to upgrade the edge browser.
Hopefully i helped out some guys, and is this process easy to understand.
As a sidenote: I rebooted from a Linux Mint USB disk, and a desktop appeared as well. I believe Linux mint could be installed as well on this box.
Good luck.
