Iconia 700P and Windows 10 Technical Preview Problems

I've had mixed success installing the Windows 10 Technical Preview (64-bit) on my Iconia 700P. The first few iterations worked fairly well, but around build 9943, things went terribly wrong, and the machine would not boot. After a while (and a few peripheral purchases), I managed to restore Windows 8.1 from an Acronis recovery image.

I downloaded the most recent "stable" build (10030, I think) before I signed up to reserve a copy of Windows 10. It installed fine from a DVD, but things went really downhill once we got to the settings portion of the installation.

After rebooting a couple times during the process, the touch screen would not work at all (nor would the bluetooth keyboard). A USB mouse allowed me to click on the screen, but the tablet shut down every time I clicked on Continue.

Has anyone had success installing the WIndows 10 Technical Preview on an Iconia 700P? I searched the forum, but couldn't find anything with the Iconia 700/WIndows 10 combination.

Thanks!

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egf

Last month's stable build (10162) installed fine on the W700P. Almost everything runs (there's some glitch in a program running NET Framework 3.5 and I can't get an updated HP laserjet driver to install), so I'm hopeful enough that I will install the final Windows 10. Good luck to you!

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billsey

I haven't installed the preview on my W700, but have it scheduled in another three weeks or so. Smiley Happy

egf

Last month's stable build (10162) installed fine on the W700P. Almost everything runs (there's some glitch in a program running NET Framework 3.5 and I can't get an updated HP laserjet driver to install), so I'm hopeful enough that I will install the final Windows 10. Good luck to you!

gsjansen

I have an acer w700 now running windows 10 pro, (upgraded from 8.1 pro).

The only issue i found was that after upgrading, i would get the following error on booting the system;

"Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.

The wait operation timed out. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070102)."

I too thought that this was a Net Framework 3.5 problem, but in fact, it is an Acer problem..................

i found a solution to resolve this;

Go into your Task Scheduler (by using Windows search). The Task Scheduler runs applications according to a schedule. The MEMS application is crashing Windows 10 (since it is doing Windows 7 related things).

In the Task Scheduler Manager, go to the Task Scheduler Library and find MEMS_Schedule. Right click on that line and left click on Disable. Now restart your computer.

This is an Acer issue, and until Acer issues an update, the MEMS_Schedule needs to be kept disabled.

If Acer ever gets around to issuing an update for this, then you can re-enable the MEMS_Sschedule, the same way as diasabling it.

Other than this annoying issue, the W700 runs very well under Windows 10...........so far.............

billsey

There is a quite good analysis of that application online. It certainly looks to me like it's quite safe to disable it.

ex-egll

Thanks for this, I have been battling this problem for a couple of days now. Applied you fix, and so dar all seems good!

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