Running Windows 7 on an Asus eee PC 900a

[BranmasterG]

How do you add a os on the eee pc without a cd drive? Is there a chip that you have to upgrade yourself?

[malignifier]

@BranmasterG you install it off of a usb flash stick.... first you go into the BIOS and set the usb drive as the primary boot-up source, then voila, it will install whatever OS you have loaded onto the flash stick

[Sha12333]

how tA FUCK HOW YOU HAVE AERO !!

[pspheaven]

@Sha12333 ha :) there are actually quite a few little netbooks that run aero.. I dunno how tho lol

[bumblebee2181]

Nice vid mate :)

I have an Eee PC 900ax, 160 GB HDD, 1 GB RAM, 1.6 GHz Intel atom, XP home. I was just wondering if you would recommend a RAM upgrade before installing Win 7. I have the ISO file for Win 7 Pro and I was very interested in installing it.

Also, what type of graphics card do you have on your motherboard? It seems to be able to run aero? When I type 'dxdiag' into Start>Run... And go into the display tab, it says I have a 224 MB Intel Graph Media Accelerator. Would that run aero?

[Bdiddly1]

@bumblebee2181 -your ram is fine for this mate-its the ssd thats recommended for an upgrade as the stock ssd is shit&it makes the cursor & other random stuff freeze for a second every now&then-win 7 will be sound on yours though&i think yours should run aero no probs although i don't see the fuss myself!

[rnga16]

plz help, i try installing windows 7 and it gets stuck on the partitons thing, it says format to ntfs, i allready did, can do nothing beyond

[bankaikiller2]

u should install window xp pro

[GamerGuy51]

im running 7 pro now and it screams for a little bugger. boots faster than my quad core...only 35 secs. upgraded to 2gb ram and 64gb ssdd. battery upgrade next. any suggestions?

[malignifier]

i wouldn't upgrade my battery because you can pull a lot of battery life out of the stock one if you adjust the brightness and turn off the wifi when not using the internet, and because the compatible batteries with more cells protrude from the netbook.

[ramboman88]

@GamerGuy51

If you wanna go crazy you can make a cluster of 2x2 3.7 volt batteries, only downside is that the "stock" charger would take too long. Just be careful because there is a very real danger of explosion if you end up messing something up too badly.

[schaadiboy]

fuck Eee pc und steck ne dir in arsch du vollidiot

[simonhopkins]

Done exactly the same with my toshiba nb100 with the ram upgraded to 2GB and normal HD upgraded to a 320GB and that flew with windows 7. Faster than xp, ubuntu nbr, vista and os x. Hate to say this but i think this time MS have cracked it.

[malignifier]

btw if you're using the 900a and wonder what is bottlenecking the performance, there is little doubt that it's the crappy slow read/write SSD they put in that thing. upgrade to one with a fast read/write and you won't get those "ticks" every few seconds.

[simplyletgo]

Nice vid - it inspired me to perform the similar upgrades and install win7.

Before I was running puppy linux - which has great app-load time, but is missing some functionalities (power management) that I didn't have the time/patience to find/config myself. Also it is hard living without support for win-based apps.

I am getting boot times around 40 seconds, which is well within my tolerance, and good app response time (although not as instantaneous as puppy linux is).

[daecwzcz]

WOW :) I must, with shame, say that it was faster than my beloved Easy Peasy/Ubuntu 8.10 Linux.

What about viruses? Is it feasible to run windows without antivirus? And is it slow to run antivirus on such a machine?

How about network drivers and special keys (volume etc.)? Do they work?

Nice vid :)

[malignifier]

i think post-xp windows (vista and 7) is pretty safe against viruses with windows defender. it wouldn't slow the system to install avg or avast, but i usually rely on virustotal(dot)com for scanning any files that might be sketchy. i installed a few drivers to make sure everything would work smoothly, though the fn+volume keys remain an issue (one i haven't been concerned with or tried to fix though). but yeah, i was on easypeasy and wanted to test out 7 and never switched back!

[anthony1258]

Very nice! I have the same netbook, but I'm curious.. do you notice it randomly put itself in standby every so often?

[malignifier]

no, i don't... are you sure it's not a power-saving feature of whatever OS you're running?

[anthony1258]

Positive! It happens in every OS, even when I put OS X on it. I contacted Asus and the recommended downgrading the BIOS. Going to give that a try...

[TeddyBcool2000]

wow, That ran Windows 7 surprisingly well.