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By: humanoido

humanoido — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:53:07 +0000

I heard some CDs are defective. You may need another one.

By: Ray Su

Ray Su — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:10:30 +0000

Hi Roy,

So I’m trying to use the recovery disk to go back to Win XP. Nothing bad with the linux, but I find the 901 too small for my hands and so am going with a 10″ netbook. Anyway, I can’t get the CD to load. Dunno if it’s the DVD-ROM player that I’m using, but have not had any luck getting it to load either from startup, or in linux.

When trying to boot directly after reconfiguring the BIOS, it says there’s no bootable disc. When in linux, I can’t even find the DVD player.

Do you have any advice of what to do? Since I’m obviously very amateur with this stuff, I didn’t want to go the USB stick route to re-load win xp, but may have to. Thanks!

By: Kaecy.us

Kaecy.us — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:59:14 +0000

Just to clarify, the boot time of XP depends majorly on how much RAM you have installed. I have 2Gb, and with the disabling of a few unnecessary services (a guide can be found online), it beats the pants off Xandros and Ubuntu, which don’t seem to be affected by the RAM increase at all.

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:13:29 +0000

Hi Yay Su. XEPC comes as a disc image and completely overwrites your machine’s SSDs. No need for drivers, it will simply be as if you bought the Linux version from Asus (except for the smalled second SSD).

I’ve not gone back to Windows but forward to Ubuntu, but I expect the rescue disc that came with my machine to do the trick if I ever do need Windows.

By: Ray Su

Ray Su — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:15:59 +0000

Did you need to re-install the drivers along with the XEPC download? or any re-partitioning of the HD from the XP machine?

Any issues when trying to go back to XP?

Thanks!

By: Hao Zhe XU

Hao Zhe XU — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:40:43 +0000

I used to use ubuntu with Adam’s kernel, however, the font does not look nice on such a small screen, whatever I tweaked. Went back to XP, set font smoothing to cleartype and install Cleartype tune applet from microsoft(which further tunes the font) and the font looks very good.