#SECURITY TAB MISSING WINDOWS 8 DRIVERS#
#SECURITY TAB MISSING WINDOWS 8 UPDATE#

Instead, I selected Windows 8.Д¤) Select the drivers. Hopefully Samsung will replace that with a populated Windows 8.1 entry. A quick google and XE500T1C-A01US worked for me.ДЈ) Do not select Windows Blue as the OS. HereвЂ™s the solution:Дў) Enter the SKU of the tablet.

#SECURITY TAB MISSING WINDOWS 8 DRIVERS#

It was a rookie mistake, but IвЂ™ve become so used to Windows having most, if not all, of drivers out of the box. Hmm.Д«ut there was a solution! This is the solution that I should have run before rebuilding my machine. All that was there were 2 bloatware apps and the touchpad software.

#SECURITY TAB MISSING WINDOWS 8 UPDATE#

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 IвЂ™d bricked the tablet. 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 IвЂ™d be royally screwed. I touched the screen вЂ“ 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, thatвЂ™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.

Security tab missing windows 8