***The Official Asus Eee PC Thread***

I currently have an Eee 1000H running XP, and loving it. I was originally going to swap out XP for Linux, but as yet I have not really had any issues with XP (I thought it was goiing to be sluggish).

However, recently the HDD in the machine has started getting quite loud. Almost constantly being accessed, despite having no need to as far as I can tell from what I am doing. What could be causing this? Is there any way I can tell if the sound I am assuming is my HDD is in fact right?

Also, the laptop lives near on permanently in my university bag. This means it gets hauled around a lot, although obviously I am careful with it. It is generally in the carry case provided in the box on purchase. Could this constant transportation be affecting the HDD in any way? Or any other component for that matter?

It is my only gripe with this amazing machine.
 
The hardrive in my 1000H is quite loud as well, even when it's just sitting there doing nothing. Don't think it's anything to worry about but I'm tempted to change mine for a larger one that isn't Seagate :p
 
Disabling those will help prolong the disk so definately worth it. Just have a look through the various menus in nLite and change what makes sense - a lot of the cutomising is just removing crap that slows the PC down and takes up space, things like drivers for oscure bits of hardware that you'll never use and also parts of windows that you have no need for.
 
Heres my personal Nlite settings for XP SP3. Runs perfectly on my 900, never had any problems installing any programs or hardware I use. There is a lot of stuff removed so have a check through and make sure theres nothing you use. Naturally you'll have to enter your own CD-Key. Just copy the contents of your WinXP CD onto your harddrive, run Nlite then import my settings, run through the option screens and uncheck anything you personally want to keep.

Should sit in around 400MB after installed, you still have to manually remove the page file though.

http://www.gavink.clara.net/EeePCnlite.zip
 
Damn right and IE/MSN etc. Just install WMPC (most codec packs come with it as standard) or VLC. I have also removed windows restore and disabled windows update (can be unselected if you wish, but check that the service is also enabled)

It is purely based around my needs, it is very quick, ultra stable and has ran/installed every program or hardware device I use.

Please feel free to edit around with it, nLite is very clever and if you unselect (e.g. include) something but it needs something else to run correctly it'll tell you and unselect that too. Best to install via Virtualbox/VM etc first of all and make sure you are happy with it.
 
manic111 said:
I got used to the keyboard after about half an hour; found it really easy! I find that the screen is too small to word process on for more than half an hour or so, it's a little cluttered. Great for browsing the web though :)

Let me know how putting Ubuntu on it goes. Last I heard there were a few issues with the wireless drivers, which is why I haven't done it yet; if these issues have been fixed then I'm in there!
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There's a custom version called Ubuntu eee (http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/) it comes with all the hardware working straight after installation and use the netbook remix interface which is very nice indeed, definitely reccommend that all eee users give it a try.
 
Will the 901 be able to read a 32GB SD HC Memory Card?

Thinking of storing video/music files onto it and keeping it in the laptop instead of cluttering the actual hard drive...
 
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