ASUS Eee PC With XP?

[TomOsborne]

Hey Technibble Community,

A client bought an ASUS Eee PC 3 weeks ago with Linux preloaded on it however they are not liking the fact that they have to adapt to two seperate operating systems and was wandering whether she can have Windows XP loaded onto it. I assume this is possible because I have seen ASUS Eee PC's advertised with Windows XP on it however I wouldn't know how to go about doing this, and whether it is worth it in terms of convenience and speed. The PC specs are as follows:

ASUS Eee PC
Intel Mobile Processor
512mb RAM

I would also like to know the way about installing Windows on there, would I have to drag the contents of the Windows XP disk to a usb drive and open it once I boot netbook up?

Any help is highly appreciated and thank you in advance,

Kind regards,

Tom Osborne

 

[angry_geek]

Not to sound rude or arrogant, but . . . Just about any tinkerer can figure this one out. Check out this site. Any thing you need to know about the EEE can be found there. http://forum.eeeuser.com/

 

[TomOsborne]

Not at all,

Thank you very much for that peice of advice, will save me lots of time in the future,

Thanks!

 

[abe]

you may not want to here this but the asus with the ssd and xp are very very slow THEY KEEP ON FREEZING , i found that this is CAUSED BY THE INTEL VIDEO DRIVERS, without them it works great but the resolution is bad, i gave up xp and installed win 7,( i have 1gb ram) and the win7 drivers for the monitor are great, the only problem is the vga output doesnt work, maybe try installing xp and using the win7 driver "monitor.sys". If it works post back here to let us know.

Abe

 

[Fixedathome.com]

you may not want to here this but the asus with the ssd and xp are very very slow THEY KEEP ON FREEZING , i found that this is CAUSED BY THE INTEL VIDEO DRIVERS, without them it works great but the resolution is bad, i gave up xp and installed win 7,( i have 1gb ram) and the win7 drivers for the monitor are great, the only problem is the vga output doesnt work, maybe try installing xp and using the win7 driver "monitor.sys". If it works post back here to let us know.

Abe

I have an EEE 901 with XP and 16GB SSD and I can honestly say that I have not had one freeze up and speed is lightening fast also.

 

[abe]

maybe the 901 is different i have a 900a actually i have 2 ,and both freeze after booting up for 30 seconds when they read write, i have found online that i'm not alone, maybe its the nlite presets i used that does it, i will noe be going back since i now have win7. When i mention freezing i dont mean a crash i mean that the mouse moves but the hd led is on and nothing works, even taskmanger freezes at 100% .

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=437978

or this from http://blog.laptopmag.com/asus-eee-pc-900-16gb-for-399-tip-toes-on-the-scene
Dan Says:

August 25th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Yeah, the SSD is MUCH MUCH slower than other models. Running XP, which writes to the disk ALOT, it completely freezes for several seconds very very frequently, during which you can’t do anything. It’s very annoying, and it makes web surfing very irritating. Low end games don’t seem to be affected though. I’m upset I didn’t get something with ANY different kind of a hard drive. Looks like I’ll pay another $150 bucks for a better SSD, which brings the price up to $550, which isn’t very good for something that plays videos very poorly. Ah well, you win some, you lose some

 

[Fixedathome.com]

Yeh I can see how that would get annoying fast.

 

[Jory]

If you have a USB to IDE/SATA adapter just hook up a optical drive to that. You should be able to boot the Windows CD with no problem. If you don't have one of those you can copy the contents to a USB thumb drive with unetbootin(?). I forget exactly what it's called, but I'm pretty sure that's it.

Here's a guide to nlite a disk and a few configuration options at the end you'll want to use:

http://www.i64x.com/eeexp.php