Asus eeePC windows XP boot-comparison

[Appule69]

My PC boots in 45 seconds =D

[x100gr]

It's FAKE .

I tried so many ways to make XP load from USB (stick or HD) but haven't succed (ends with a blue screen of death).

If anyone did it pls give more infos

Thanks .

[EvilEmpir3]

Use TinyXP, you jackass.

[Stere0123]

SDHC's Slower Than My Thinkpad! It Boots In 1 Minute Or Less.

[lllol12]

nice

[1LowSeventy3]

im running tinyxp rev.09 on mine and it boots up in 2 seconds and im in the login screen :p

[zsmorr92]

i put windows xp pro sp2 on my eeepc, runs so fast, boots in 20 seconds, the whole os is really snappy compared to alot of more powerful computers ive seen

[thoron174]

can someone please help me my window just frezzes on my pc

[8309400]

write speed is often concealed when u buy an ssd drive or usb key,but a write latency higher than 1 Milisecond is unacceptable for an ssd drive. Volatile Ram drives have a write latency of 0.6 microseconds, write speed is what makes a drive blazing fast in boot times, app runs, and pagefile, not the MB/s transfer figures. MB/s counts only when copying large files from drive to drive. make sure you see random write speed mesured in miliseconds before you buy an ssd, if its concealed, dont buy it.

[sausagenmuff]

wow BOTH of those are running pitifully slow.. im on a old IBM thinkpad and i can GARR-ON-TEE it boots faster than both.

[pdclenton]

Haha, fancy running Windows on an eeepc. Funny.

[markii63]

why?

[wwjoshdew]

how did you get XP to boot from SDHC. Every time I try to put XP on USB, it freaks out and doesn't install or load. And I have used programs like bootit and hpformat stuff to make it think the thumbdrive is a fixed drive and NTFS but XP still refuses to load from USB. Any help? I can get Fedora 9 to load just fine from USB. although every time I do a system update, it rarely lets me boot Fedora again.

[x100gr]

I agree on that ,

It's FAKE .

I tried so many ways to make XP load from USB (stick or HD) but haven't succed (ends with a blue screen of death).

If anyone did it pls give more infos

Thanks .

[wwjoshdew]

VLC is awesome. You should use TinyXP and choose the option where it takes out IE, Outlook, and WMP. (It puts firefox 3 on your computer automatically.) So no Windows media player, cause VLC plays way more stuff than windows MP can anyway. And if you want the link to TinyXP, message me! it has Hiren's BootCD 9.5, Acronics Backup and Restore, Damn Small Linux, SpinRite6, and TinyXP. Message me. its a 699MB iso. You can choose an option where XP takes up only like 200 MB of your hard drive!

[Dogflap1]

What ram do you have?

and is this full xp or just part of it?

Im thinking of geting one and puting xp on if it will boot up quick.

[markvb82]

the original 512mb DDR2 dimm. It's an "nlited" version of XP, but fully working and running everything the 900mhz dothan (@630mhz) can handle.

[Dogflap1]

where can i find a "nlited" version of xp?

Thanks for your help.

[mobilephone2003]

dunno why this is rated low this is very useful for us potential eeepc buyers.

[Zyro71]

whoa im thinkin about gettin one but with a normal hd its to slow for me so i guess no hd modifacations unless a better hd comes out lol

[ermessino1]

is winxp on sdhc usable a part the boot process? for example, have you tested office 2003 or 2007?

[oatmealdog]

Wow Windows takes a long time to boot!

[markvb82]

About 30 seconds from SSD isn't that bad.

[NunzioMaestro76]

also 1 minute from SDHC (class 2!!!) isn't bad!

I WANT AN EEEPC!!! ;)

[jncraton]

SDHC Class 2 is quite slow. I would expect to see a dramatic speed bost using class 6.

[markvb82]

apparently Sandisk makes quite a speedy SDHC class2, my new class 6 boots about 3 seconds faster. Bear in mind the class indication is a minimum speed.

[jncraton]

Ah. I see. Thanks for the info.

[brettmansdorf]

Speed class on an SDHC card (through the SD slot on the eeePC) is irrelevant - its on a 16 bit bus - and is dog slow.

Place it on a 32 bit bus (cardbus) and it will fly (typically the thru put of 16bit SD slot is about 3mb/s, versus a class six at 20 and up.