Installer Windows Xp Asus Eee Pc 701
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Advance through the screens until your install is done, this part takes about 30 minutes. Installing Drivers: It was really nice of Asus to include a Windows XP driver disk in the package even though it ships with a Linux OS. After the install is complete simply insert this CDROM and run the “Install All” option to setup the devices. Asus Eee PC 4G (701) Pdf User Manuals. Preparing To Install Windows XP 86. Installing Windows XP 86. Optimizing Windows XP 88. Changing Virtual Memory 88. ASUS Eee PC 4G XP Review&Video Hands-On It has a few flaws, but ASUS' newest mini-notebook delivers the familiarity of Windows and good performance at a very low price. ASUS Eee PC Product Diary. Asus eee x101ch netbook, and your asus eee pc 1015pem. The 701 base model eee pc 4g was released on 16 october 2007 in taiwan. Installing windows 98 onto an asus eee pc 701 4g 11, 27 am published by akasaka 3 comments. The 701sd is one of 1024.768. The following instructions are tested on some eeepc models. ASUS EEE PC SERIES 701 WINDOWS 7 DRIVERS DOWNLOAD. Pc restore factory settings, disable boot booster, complete guide install windows. Windows xp download, download asus eee. Asus update utility utilities, install asus eee. Usb flash drive, pm brad linder, hong kong ap. Ultra mobile eee, easy peasy one laptop. Com, asus eee pc 701 sd-x. I install windows xp pro sp2 in my Eeepc and I used my windows xp pro studient edition and externa cd-dvd driver and 4gv of flat driver 1- Plug in an external DVD drive via USB 2. Start your Eee and Hit F2 at the Asus start up screen, so that you can change some settings in the BIOS.1change to boot from your cd or dvd driver.
The first thing that I did even when I was running the preinstalled & customized Xandros Linux was that I upgraded the memory from 512MB to 2GB. The next thing that I did was to download all the Windows XP drivers from the ASUS support website. I also downloaded/updated the firmware on the ASUS Eee PC 701SD.
There are ways to install Windows XP using a USB memory stick but since I had my Windows XP Home DVD and I also had a portable DVD/CD drive (see my review on this *HERE*), I opted to do it the easy way and just install Windows XP from DVD. I connected my portable DVD drive to one of the available USB ports on the netbook and booted it. I then selected the option of deleting the existing partitions and used the entire 8GB SSD drive for the installation of Windows XP.
Windows XP installed without any issues. After the netbook rebooted, I ran each of the executable files from each of the driver files (since my Windows XP DVD did not have all the necessary drivers). After each driver installation, I rebooted the netbook. At the end, I had installed all the drivers and they all seemed to work.
During the installation of Windows XP because the netbook had 2GB of RAM, the virtual memory paging file was automatically set to 3GB (1.5 times the amount of RAM on the netbook). This left me with less than half of the 8GB SSD drive for my other applications. Before installing the other applications, I reduced the virtual memory paging file size to 2GB. I also went through the Windows Update process until the netbook was up to date with all the Microsoft security patches. I also downloaded Microsoft's Security Essentials (Microsoft's free antivirus/anti-spyware program) which is not part programs listed in the Windows Update screen.
After doing this, I installed the standard programs that I normally install (Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash Player, Mozilla Firefox, TrueCrypt, OpenOffice, Axcrypt, Google Chrome, and SlingPlayer for Windows). The important thing about installing these programs is to install them one at a time since I found that with less than 8GB to 'play with,' I also had to compress the hard drive.
In terms of the speed of the ASUS Eee PC 701SD, I found that it was very slow. I know that because of the hard disk encryption and the compression of the hard disk as well, this slows down the netbook but the netbook is almost unusable. The netbook would pause/buffer often during YouTube video viewing and the light showing SSD activity would almost be constantly on.
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Surprisingly, SlingPlayer for Windows viewing is very good (better than YouTube video viewing). It does pause occasionally but not as often as it does during YouTube video viewing even when the netbook is accessing the Slingbox via the internet as opposed to the internal network.With Windows XP installed, I did not experience the same problem with wireless access which leads me to think that my earlier problem is not a hardware problem but a driver issue.
I find that this netbook is usable for a light user but for heavy users, I would not recommend it. It is slow enough (even with a memory upgrade from 512MB to 2GB) that most people would find it annoying.
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May 28, 2013 11:27 am3 Comments
In case you got in the mood for nostalgia, or just feel like Windows XP is too much for you while it takes a lot of system resources, this is one of those things you may want to do.
Step 1. Preparing the installation USB
This is the most painful part in the whole process.
First make a bootdisk with MSDOS with Rufus.
Add a copy of the Win98 folder from the 98 install disc, for the sake of booting and installing from it. Please note that Rufus installs a Windows Millenium DOS, so you better get an image of the Millenium boot floppy (for example from here) and grab Fdisk off it onto the USB.
Step 2. Set up the SSD
Get yourself a bootable flash with a partitioning tool. I recommend using Gparted. Once you’ve booted into it, go on and remove all of the stuff for the sake of creating a single 4GB partition on the SSD, and don’t forget to backup prior to that!
Once you’re done with it, move on!
Step 3. Make a first install
Enter BIOS and make sure the SSD is the first drive on the system. Then boot off the flash from Step 1. You’ll end up at the DOS prompt:
C:>
Now enter DIR and make sure you see the files you had on your installation USB.
Then enter cd Win98 (I blindly assume you didn’t rename anything you got from the CD, right?) and then setupcor /c /it /p a;b. This should start the setup process. If you use setup.exe Sothink swf catcher serial key. , it will just stare at you with its deep black screen.
If it doesn’t start, well, there’s a solution for that too. Find a relatively-new PC (that supports USB storage on BIOS level), plug in a hard drive that you will install into, and your installation media, off which you will boot. After the installation to the USB drive is done (oh, make sure its size won’t exceed your EEE’s SSD length of 4000MB! I made mine 3200.), boot to some Linux LiveCD on your EEE and use DD to copy the HDD right onto the SSD. For example if the HDD with 98 is /dev/sdc and the EEE’s SSD is /dev/sdb you will have to execute this in the Linux shell:
sudo umount /dev/sdb; sudo umount /dev/sdc; sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
/live2d-models-for-android-download.html. Win98 installer freaking out on my Core i3 (yes I had to go the failed-to-start way)
The system will ask you some questions, and then proceed with the installation. If it decides to reboot on its own, point it to the installer media, not the SSD or the target disk! It doesn’t write any bootsector until it’s done doing stuff! By the way install it to D:WINDOWS, because the C: drive is gonna be the installer flashdrive. You may try installing DOS and copying the Win98 folder onto the SSD, and starting the installation from there, but it didn’t work out for me.
Right when it’s gonna detect devices it will ask you about every detection attempt. Always say “yes” so in case it hangs, you know where to substitute it for a “no” if it decides to hang on you.
Step 3. Drive the drivers
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Alright, you got the thing running. No sound, no network, and not even any decent resolution or color depth. And if you used the install-from-flash-onto-external-USB-disk method, no bootloader either (that’s why I recommend to use an SD as an installation media, I did it that way, and the SD is always here as the bootloader, and for the sake of keeping the installer handy). You’re so mad you even reboot your desktop Windows 7 computer by hitting the Reset button, but you did it. And all you got is this. Well maybe you installed Word and wrote a couple of docs, but still not satisfied.
Well it means it’s time to get some drivers!
The only ones I was able to find by now are video and USB ones. Sadly it seems that there are no Realtek HDAudio drivers, as well as no wireless ones, and even though it might be possible to get the Ethernet port to work using the Ndis drivers, it didn’t work out for me (if you know how to solve Ndis.vxd error code 2 – tell me in the comments), I had to make a special directory into which I had to expand all of the Driver*.cab files in order for Windows to at least let me install that. Maybe that’s just me, I’m not sure at all.
For the video drivers, you are gonna need the Universal VESA drivers for Windows 9x, called VBE9x. However, even though the graphics will be fast and smooth, get ready for some problems:
- Even though it works awesome when using Windows applications, in case you launch a DOS box with a program, fullscreen or whatever – it’s gonna screw stuff up with interesting textmode graphical effects. Sometimes hitting Alt+Enter to go fullscreen and again Alt+Enter to go back helps.
The funky graphic effects after starting command.com from Windows
- Either you have the resolution or you have the colors – the driver cannot fit the whole image into the memory if you set 16bit at 800×600, except if you patch the BIOS, a way of what is something they forgot to tell us about, so you either have 640x480x32 (which is, to be honest, pretty usable, even x16 is fine for me), or 800x600x8, just 16 colors.
- You may try to launch the TSR fix they claimed would fix this, but for me it just made a nice fade-from-black-to-white screensaver, that’s all. That is because you need to add them into Autoexec.bat at the very beginning, and you better do to give it a fancy resolution, in my case the line was:
lh c:vbe9x0800×480Alv_1411.exe
Actually, I only got the 800×400 version to work, but in 16bit High Color, so it’s cool with me. However this doesn’t fix the ‘funky textmode’ problem at all.
As for the USB support, the first thing to do is set the OS installation mode in BIOS to ‘Start’. Then install this USB driver carefully, paying attention to the instructions, and you’ll be good to go.
And now it’s time for some screenies!
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- It finally booted! And it works great!
- Writing this article in Word 97 on my EEE PC
- How could I even live without that good old DOS game ‘Поле Чудес’, that actually is a parody of the TV show with the same name? :D
- Running a shitty adaptation of Banner Mania into Russian. I have a better one but I can’t find it xD
- Checking out the themes available in Windows Plus!
- The good ol’ classic iMac theme :)
- Locate WELDATA.exe, make a shortcut to it, set it to launch minimized, and add You_are_a_real_rascal to the file path
Ifunia video converter 5.5.0. So for now I am getting on with it. I can play the old games in DOS mode or Windows itself, even though without sound, most of those I liked didn’t have it anyway, and for music I have a portable CD player. Word 97 is awesome in terms of the rare writing I do (like, for example, this article, written completely under Windows 98).
To summarize, let’s compare the pros and the cons of installing Win98 onto an EEE PC.
Pros:
- Nostalgia!
- All local IT people would know you as that-portable-Windows98-guy
- Old games
- Battery life (about 5 hours for me on a relatively old battery pack!)
- Bootup time (30sec from power-on to desktop, 10sec from shutdown to completely-off)
- Resources consumption (goodbye spinning cooling fans)
- Distraction-less (No internet as I said, no sound either :P)
Cons:
- Complicated installation (sort of — once you get to know it, it’s easypeasy)
- No sound
- No internet/WiFi
- No battery indicator
- Weird GPU bugs, not yet fixed
- Win9x is unfortunately abandoned (KernelEx to the rescue, sometimes when you need an XP program running right there)
It’s up to you whether to install it or not, but if you want to – it surely is an interesting time-travel adventure!
Tags: eee pc, installation, windows, windows 98Categorised in: EEE PC experiments and ramblings, HowTo's, Old Hardware, Old Software
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Hey, where I can download this Theme “iMac”?