Windows XP on Aspire One 8GB - P1

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I just installed an OCZ Agility 30gb SSD in a Lenovo N100 dual core pentium 1.6ghz with 2gb ram. Windows XP pro SP3 fully updated.

45 seconds from completely off to desktop (no hourglass). If the Lenovo bios gui splash was shorter it might go even faster.

It replaced a HDD loaded with Vista. Needless to say the difference is night and day.

[sheek1982]

i have this netbook but i installed a ssd accelerator which turns it into a beast!! u can use flashfire or flashpoint ssd accelerator.. after installing u see a huge difference in speed

[jonboi93]

im running xp service pack 3 on my acer aspire but my one has 512mb instead of the 1gb and mine starts up quicker than yours, i would suggest you do nlite on your harddrive it speeds up the startup time very well

just a suggestion :)

[eleven2181]

:) thanks but i have mine now blazing fast using fbwf.

[ramoj02]

Is that D150?

[mattydavid12]

hey!

Im trying to Instal this on my Aspire one, but i have no memory stick. Ive tried using an SD card but havnt got a clue how to use it this way!

Can you help or give any advice?!

[PPLIdontknow]

this XP looks ALOT different then my schools xp... i wonder why...

[YoutuJ3eJ3lows]

@PPLIdontknow they are both the same. Just different login screen and theme. If you have multiple accounts, and they want you to manually type it in, they use that on a server, or they call it an NT login screen. The login screen most people use is the new one introduced in XP. So basically, you have the boxed login screen because ur school doesn't want you to find out their account names, for safety :P

[segr3do]

Great vid..

Im testing the Windows 7 on my Acer Aspire 8GB SSD, and run pretty cool... but sometimes when I open a webpage, the speed decrease a little bit and run fine again... did u get this kind of decrease in Xp too ?

[eleven2181]

yes. if you're using the linux ssd model, it's a problem with the ssd it shipped with.

[B5guy]

If u have a wireless network you can use your main computer CD/DVD drive to watch videos on your acer one, u can also use it to download CD on it.

[kasmo0]

it is a verry slow machine, i believe ,there are many machines arround up the same price.

[PPLIdontknow]

wowdude that is REALLY good startup time! my HP laptop takes (not exagerating) 5 minutes

im getting one of these from amazon for only 299$

[twilightyip]

dude your comp is destroyed in my opion

my laptop starts up in 30 second.

i wonder why your takes long

[00g00f00]

see you have to delete my comment u fag

[eleven2181]

yes i did. and i'm about to delete this one too. :)

[GEARZ4]

hey can someone tell me if it is possible to hook up a printer on these things, seeing as they do not have cd/dvd drives on them. My mom wants one and wants to type letters and stuff and print them.

[peterjaena]

Of course you can print on them GEARZ4, they are REAL notebook PCs... just smaller. :)

[vickersfan]

hey after downloading open office right out of the box about how much space would be left?

[chiboribo]

Are these worth the 299? I'm thinking of getting one...

[eleven2181]

depends on your needs, but for basic net activities (email, surf, chat), this is worth it.

be sure to read more about converting the $299 Aspire One to XP though before buying one as it comes with Linux.

[awh85]

hi, i would like to know whether your SSD was formatted to FAT32 or NTFS. please get back to me. thanks.

[eleven2181]

it was formatted in FAT32.

[awh85]

thanks for the reply.

[cotton509]

get the wxp version and put linux on it please and show how good

[00g00f00]

omg how can you people say the aspire is even good i meen luk at it i no it luks smart yeh but its to small its for serching the web and travelling with thats all its gd for so stop being nerds and adding a bigger ram and hardrive to ur shitty little screened piece of shit

[eleven2181]

if it doesn't suit you, shut up.

[alirezaavazzadeh]

just because u cant afford it, doesnt mean its crap

[colefabbro]

you are stupid. they are awesome

[smoscar01]

no men it is really fast check the HD video-promo I render on my aspire one at my videos or right here /watch?v=cZH-FYUg20Q

[ryanvicente19]

hi i have acer aspire one i want to windows xp sp3 how to make it.. i need a bios update or not..

[FRASHYA101]

wots better windows xp or the linux version

[Da9eI]

I have modded mine with a 60Gb Toshiba (5mm) 4.200 RPM harddrive. The aspire one got pretty resposive and fast, even for a slow cpu! Also run XP pro, unmodified. Even though the SSD has faster access speeds, it cant beat the harddrives higher transfer speeds, both in writes and reads. And one more thing; if you formatted the SSD in NTFS, I recommend using Fat32, it got much faster (before I used a harddrive)

[silverstonewebcam]

theres a new bios update which quiets down the fan. Right now the fan constantly spins though the computer really doesnt need it to spin all the time, so the new bios update fixes that

[davocreative]

exactly the new bios controlls the fan even better

[arexxk]

woot for aspire one!

[davocreative]

dont u know what the bios is?

look it up on wikipedia.

u got to download it if u wanna get rid of the flickering screen. The official bios can be retrieved from the acer website

[davocreative]

u have to download the latest bios

[pcrox200]

hey do you reccomend any external dvd drives i can buy the aspire one im getting soon?

[razormusic]

Hi m8 grate video i was wondering i am getting one of these for christmas how do you get xp on this as it dose not have a disk drive do you use a removible disk ? and dose it run ok e.g is it slow loading ect a responce would be nice cheers m8

chris

age 13

[nlvg6585]

there are some that already come with windows xp already pre-installed.where i work at we're selling them with xp already installed.

[davocreative]

yeah. its worth the money. i love my aspire one, you wont regret purchasing it

[MavenCree]

Dude... say something.

[eleven2181]

i don't check this often so you have to wait for a reply or visit the address i posted at the info section (be resourceful)

[killua1980]

hi there i've try to intall win xp on my aspire one but when it finish my sound card, lan card & other driver has lost how can i retrieve it help me pls tnxxxx..

[eleven2181]

agree.

[OneOfSatansMinions]

Upgrading those things is a hellhole.

[eleven2181]

yes it is. not for first time modders i guess. for me, the only necessary mod you need is to upgrade the ram to 1GB or 1.5GB which you can request from the shop.

[sirmasterpimp]

Nice, I just got the one with xp,120gb hdd in blue. it really is a good pc, just wish i would get more than 1 and a half hours worth of battery life out of it.

[eleven2181]

that's the drawback of netbooks as they have small (3-cell) batteries with them. you can buy an acer 6-cell battery for this though if you have spare cash which can last up to 5-7hours (not tested yet).

[peterjaena]

I have the 1gb RAM, 8gb SSD(slow Intel) version of the AAO as well. I installed XP home SP3 on it, and did alot of speed tweaks. It boots up around 35sec to desktop. and another 5sec for the SSD to finish everything. So all in all about 40sec. Your's seems to take forever to load.... hmmmm.

[eleven2181]

that's good to hear. hope you could upload a vid of that and post the tweaks you did as well. i got 30+sec bootup time with XP when it was freshly installed, but when i installed softwares (office, dreamweaver, avast, etc) the loading time became slow. i'm thinking of reverting to linpus as the battery life with XP is just around 2hrs compared to linpus with 3hrs and 20sec bootup time.

[peterjaena]

Oh so that answers it.... Mine only has NOD32 on bootup to XP. Desktop w/ SSD light finishing at 40sec. Only have Open Office 3 and Firefox 3 installed as main apps. Yahoo messenger, some tweaking tools on the side. Don't think if affects bootup. I just uploaded a video of my setup. From button click to Yahoo website in 60sec.

[mypetridish]

your room sounds like being in a factory.. what's the background noise? server fans?

[eleven2181]

sorry, it's a desk fan plus the 4 fans of my desktop pc beside me. the aspire one has very minimal fan noise. minimal as in i can only hear it when i put it very close to my ear.

[KaMiKaZeOvEr]

i got the the aspire one and i have a xp cd do you think i could install it with my portable cd drive will it go smoothly??

PLZ REPLY BACK!!

THNX

[eleven2181]

yes it will definitely will. i installed mine using the same procedure.

[soundcheck00]

when installing windows xp?...i need a external hard drive right?...so the ONE doesnt become slow...?

[Arius704]

Is that a stock copy of xp pro? (not slip-streamed?)

[eleven2181]

it's a stock XP Home. not an nlite version.

[Arius704]

My One arrives tomorrow, I'm going to nlite a barebones version and post the results in a week or so... I'll let you know how it turns out! Thanks! P.S. the macbook air comment didn't end up where i intended, oops...

[zzzxtreme]

hello , to boot to external cd/dvd drive, u can enter the bios and just select the boot device? the bios will recognize the external drive?

[eleven2181]

exactly. :)

[PHUCNORRIS]

how do you install xp on the flash drive? those dont have a cd drive correct?  why does it boot so slow if its solid state ?

[eleven2181]

i used external DVD/CD drive to install it. :)

the booting time is just as fast as my desktop (or almost the same). SSD on the Aspire One has fast READ speed but slow WRITE speed (on intel ssd models) so booting is not totally affected.

[BuxWV184]

"i used external DVD/CD drive to install it. :)"

Cheater! ;P

[eleven2181]

hehe.. i'm too sleepy that time to experiment on installing via usb. :)

[gerrard171192]

this acer aspire one only have 8gb of space?is it just too little space for people to use?and what do it means by 120gb HDD?120gb of space?thanks (:

[eleven2181]

yup. it's just 8GB of space. this machine i only intended for small tasks such as creating documents or browsing internet. after installing xp and office, you would still have 5GB of extra space.

aspire one comes in different models: 8GB SSD, 80GB and 120GB HDD. SSD's are shock proof and uses less power. HDD's are high capacity but not shock proof and uses more power that's why HDD versions are bundled with 6-cell batteries.

[allinonethegreat]

Damn I thought the speed was going to be faster than that to turn on WTF I might just stick with my 2 GB Ram

[eleven2181]

uhmm.. 8GB is the storage space NOT RAM. The machine i use has 1GB of RAM only and boots as fast as my desktop PC with 2GB RAM.

[gpkwo]

what fps do u get on warcraft 3 with dota? u can find out by typing /fps in game. Just wondering haha

[zyyu]

is there any Asus windows xp home OEM edition that can be installed on it without activation?

[llMELQUIADESll]

I can put to him adobe ) premier , after efects, and photoshop=

[VENGEANCE1300]

hahaha... ILLITERATE huh?!.. *lol*

[eleven2181]

what's the use of posting here if you don't like it? go post a video for macbook air instead :)

imho, vista is the worst OS ever. why install Vista if you have OSX already.

[VENGEANCE1300]

what's the use of this fucking subnotebook??! hahaha!.. use macbook air! asshole! and install vista with it!.. i swear! you'll love it!!---> rofl!

[SkulkerM]

... and an Air costs how much again?

[Laykey]

if u have enough money

[ShiroSenda]

The fact that you like vista almost qualify you as an computer illiterate person. So shut up, you obviously don't know half of what you think you know.

[ShiroSenda]

Almost forgot, regarding the XP install. Did you have to download any drivers?

[eleven2181]

uhm.. why?

1. I don't have a budget for macbook air

2. even so, I don't want to spend that much on something disposable (like all gadgets are)

3. I don't want to spend money on crappy OS(vista) which is a rip-off from LinuxBeryl and OSX.

4. MacBook Air is NOT as small as this.

5. Vista + MacBook Air = show off.

also, can you use your macbookair on your lap for hours without the use of a notebook cooler? :)

[Arius704]

your an idiot... You could buy 4 of these and a LCD monitor for the price of the cheapest Crapbook Air... Get a clue, its free...

[hirlal]

hey very nice

where i can get xp sp3 on this machine?

[BlackShiraya]

u just need any of the original windowx xp and then check control panel inside there will be a icon called automatic updates click on that a window should pop up and u should check the automatic, click on and if a new service pack is available the computer will download it.

[waterbirdx]

hi, can you show me or tell me how to install windows xp on the acer aspire one? Thanks!

[Josvadolla777]

Xp with sp3 on fat32 file system on the ssd disk would boot faster. It will also respond a lot faster working in windows

[longhairedharbinger0]

yeh hey where'd you get this one all i can ever find is the Linux Lite version and i really dont want that one........

[Pachank]

which theme do you use ?

i like it

[Pachank]

Which theme do you use?

i like it

[Charles2337]

I thought this was 80GB.

[munic1]

why xp sp3???

cant we put xp sp2???

nice video...

[eleven2181]

you can install SP2, but some found out that it's faster on SP3.

[munic1]

ok...

thanx...

[talkywalky]

Hi,

I don't know how to disable D2D, Prefetch, and Page File.

Can you please help me?

Reagrds

[eleven2181]

i replied to your message.

[devdenovs]

I installed on my asprite winxp too. It takes a long time for ready to use.

The intel gma950 is buildin so games like GAT SA will run with it.

[eleven2181]

i like it on XP but loading time bores me. haha.

[marin7001]

Nice video. What about the noise produced by cooling fan? Do you barely hear it or find it annoying? Is it always on?

[eleven2181]

some people reported about noisy fan but i haven't encountered any. it's perfectly silent. the fan you hear on the vid is a desk fan and the big fan of my desktop pc. :)

[hotelspaz]

just for the hell of it you should see what games it will play e.g. counter strike: source, wow, COD and make a video. someone tested out the msi wind and found it played many games just fine on low settings. anyway thanks for the videos of the acer.

[hotelspaz]

lol typed this before i saw you play warcraft 3! did you ever try counter strike source or any newer games?

[eleven2181]

whatever works on MSI Wind will work on Aspire One. :)

[NeoXus299]

how did you install it?

[eleven2181]

plug in an external cd/dvd then run a bootable winxp. :)

[hirlal]

where can i get those bootable xp dude?is it not slower the speed?

[pachonX]

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