Sunchip CX-W8 (Z3735F)

[okansokmen]

wifi drivers of cx-w8

i found the real drivers of wi-fi module in cx-w8 from the hardware id of the device in system. it is realtek. i downloaded the driver from one of the driver sites. now everything works perfect ! if you need help about windows 8.1 drivers i can post download link for cx-w8-win8.1-32bit-all-drivers-backup

[Methanoid]

i found the real drivers of wi-fi module in cx-w8 from the hardware id of the device in system. it is realtek. i downloaded the driver from one of the driver sites. now everything works perfect ! if you need help about windows 8.1 drivers i can post download link for cx-w8-win8.1-32bit-all-drivers-backup

You misunderstand. I want to find the Hardware IDs for the LAN (not WIFI) and for the AUDIO.... Just open Windows, device manager, read the numbers from properties. Thanks

[bullyfrog]

i booted the box with an external cd rom. i installed my own windows 8.1 pro version. it worked.

How did you do that? I'm facing the same problem you did. The box comes with a banned key. So apparently we need to get our own. But there seems no way for us to purchase a windows 8.1 with Bing license.

I've gone and purchased a windows pro licence and tried to update it just so I can activate the box, but I get the "error something when wrong" midway through the upgrade and it's not able to complete.

Looks like the only way is to boot off a USB device and reinstall windows from scratch.
(whats the point of them pre-loading windows in the first place if we need to reinstall??)

My next problem is I don't have a USB CD-ROM. I tried using rufus to make a bootable USB stick but it does not seem to detect it. Does anyone know how I supposed to proceed? It's looking to be an expensive paperweight..

[no_spam_for_me]

Maybe http://www.isotousb.com/ instead of rufus ????
You pressed "DEL" to enter the BIOS and select the device which you will use for boot?

[bullyfrog]

Clearly I am asking the impossible?

Here ya go..


Wireless




LAN



Sound



Audio Codec

[Methanoid]

Thanks for that but like in post 32 I just need device IDs from the hardware tab and dont need wireless info... so if U can do that I'd be sorted and gratefuL!

Here ya go..

Wireless
LAN

DONT WANT WIRELESS

Sound

Just need device IDs from the details tab PLS

Audio Codec

Same.. device IDs

[bullyfrog]

Thanks for that but like in post 32 I just need device IDs from the hardware tab and dont need wireless info... so if U can do that I'd be sorted and gratefuL!

Are these what you need?

[bullyfrog]

Maybe http://www.isotousb.com/ instead of rufus ????
You pressed "DEL" to enter the BIOS and select the device which you will use for boot?

I ended up borrowing a USB drive from a friend. What a hassle to boot... Firstly, it doesn't boot off the CD-ROM (the usual way) no matter what parameter for boot order (after pressing escape). Finally selected boot from file then selected the string of text that had USB (somewhere in there) and browsed to /EFI/BOOT/<efi image>.efi

My first attempt with a 64 bit version on DVD(bootx64.efi) failed..Got an invalid file message.
Then I burnt a 32 bit version of windows 8.1 Pro and selected its bootia32.efi file. Success! Just formatted the partition where the old windows was and installing a new one...hope I'm doing it right...

Edit:

OK install went fine and was able to boot into windows 8.1 Pro> Finally able to activate it..but now in driver hell trying to hunt each one down.

There has to be an easier way than this...and I don't understand why they couldn't just pay the few dollars to MS to register the OS for this device..

[bullyfrog]

Nevermind

[ZloiKefir]

I received today cx-w8 from Aliexpress. Windows is not licenced of couse.
Wifi module is Broadcom AP6330. Not realtek.
To go to BIOS need to press ESC.
And all drivers are installed automatically after first boot.

[AndreaSpooky]

I received today cx-w8 from Aliexpress. Windows is not licenced of couse.
Wifi module is Broadcom AP6330. Not realtek.
To go to BIOS need to press ESC.
And all drivers are installed automatically after first boot.

Can u check out temperatures under stress with AIDA pls? Like 20 mins of heavy decoding under kodi.

Thx

[ZloiKefir]

Can u check out temperatures under stress with AIDA pls?
Thx

temp is 84 C with Stress Test AIDA64

[AndreaSpooky]

temp is 84 C with Stress Test AIDA64

ouch, like with Pipo, as expected.

Means that internally theres no dissipation for heat, unfortunately.
Not good for continuous video decoding.

Thx anyway

[Lude]

Has anyone run crystal disk mark on the internal flash memory?

If not can someone please post the benchmark; would like to compare with pipo x7.

Thanks!

[scrads]

Bios

hi guys any chance anyone knows a way or resetting the bios?

basically in the attempts to get the thing to boot from usb something has been disabled and the keyboard won't respond until its in windows.

or if someone has a copy of the bios so can reflash it, that'd be great.

thanks