Windows 10 killed my netbook

[hpbnz75]

I have an Asus x205at netbook with windows 8.1 installed. I have installed windows 10 preview via windows update . windows 10 runs terribly slow and jittery on my netbook.

I have tried to rollback to win 8.1, recovery options etc but none of these options work all say they have encountered a problem.

i have installed the wifi driver but can not pickup any wifi devices. my usb will not detect a usb modem.

I have created a uefi bootable usb with a windows 8.1 64bit install but it will not install 64bit to my system as the cpu is 64bit but the efi is 32 bit. I tried with a 32bit win 8.1 but 32bit is not supported by microsoft with uefi install.

I am lost as to what to do.

any help ?

Thanks

Hamish

 

[Archgaull]

My advice is to just do a clean install, rather than trying to do a rollback.

 

[Tom Drake]

You could try booting without UEFI

https://superuser.com/questions/454668/how-to-boot-windows-dvd-without-uefi

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/hh825112.aspx

or read through this as it should apply to 8.1
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2011/05/31/installing-windows-7-on-uefi-based-computer.aspx

or there was something where you could delete a file from the install disk and it would not even try uefi, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was, does anyone else know what I'm talking about?

 

[hpbnz75]

My advice is to just do a clean install, rather than trying to do a rollback.

the trouble is getting it to boot from a usb to do a clean install.

 

[hpbnz75]

You could try booting without UEFI

https://superuser.com/questions/454668/how-to-boot-windows-dvd-without-uefi

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/hh825112.aspx

or read through this as it should apply to 8.1
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2011/05/31/installing-windows-7-on-uefi-based-computer.aspx

or there was something where you could delete a file from the install disk and it would not even try uefi, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was, does anyone else know what I'm talking about?

I think you can change the boot file in the efi folder of your install disk, but for example you cant change your boot options in bios to enable legacy boot, so your stuck with the system wanting an efi boot. my understanding is there is a imbeded 32bit efi chip on the hd.

if that makes any sense

 

[Tom Drake]

This seems somewhat related, not exactly but close and might give you an idea.

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=209045