The Official Asus Eee PC Thread

YorkshirePadd26 · 16 Dec 2008 at 11:51

An EEE Pc or the Runcore SSd drive ?

Try googling Runcore SSD drives, or via the biggest auction site.

Kerplunk · 16 Dec 2008 at 12:05

An EEE PC

YorkshirePadd26 · 16 Dec 2008 at 12:26

Pretty much all over the place now, available in Supermarkets, here at OCUK and most other shops.

Have you even looked for them ? :rolleyes:

Kerplunk · 16 Dec 2008 at 12:32

Yes, I have now. Looking at this...

Processor - Intel Atom N270 / 1.6 GHz
RAM - 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM
Hard Drive - 160 GB
Operating System - Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Screen - 10' TFT 1024 x 600 ( WSVGA )
Bluetooth - Yes
Notebook Camera - Integrated - 1.3 Megapixel
Warranty - 2 years warranty

£280

fish99 · 23 Dec 2008 at 23:30

Just picked up a EEE PC 1000H (brand new and sealed) which I'm typing on now and having a bit of a battery issue - it doesn't seem to want to charge past 71%. Even if I turn the EEE off, it still won't go beyond that point. The charging process is definitely working because the battery started on about 35%.

I've tried taking the battery out and putting it back in.

YorkshirePadd26 · 24 Dec 2008 at 08:18

I've eventually just got a shipping note for this so I may have it in a week or 2 as the post will be stupid.

Only took 12 days for them to reply to my email and let me know what was goign on !

Dam why can't OCUk stock these ?

YorkshirePadd26 said:
I've just ordered one, so will post info when it comes

YorkshirePadd26 · 29 Dec 2008 at 09:50

Runcore 32GB SSD should be arriving today ! can't wait

YorkshirePadd26 · 29 Dec 2008 at 21:16

Update is it doesn't work ! my 900 EEE is the 12gb version with 2 drive s and the 4gb onboard one is locked as a master and the Runcore drive will not function correctly with it !

Runcore know about this now apparrently and are updating the drives ! so looks like its rma time ! great

kevpuk · 30 Dec 2008 at 15:57

YorkshirePadd26 said:
Update is it doesn't work ! my 900 EEE is the 12gb version with 2 drive s and the 4gb onboard one is locked as a master and the Runcore drive will not function correctly with it !

Runcore know about this now apparrently and are updating the drives ! so looks like its rma time ! great

Sure I read on eeeuser.com that you need to disable the 4GB SSD to be safe......try that in BIOS ?

YorkshirePadd26 · 5 Jan 2009 at 08:37

You can't disable the onboard 4 Gb drive, you can in the bios but in reality it still boots up and will try and boot from the 4gb drive.

I got a 900a now and the runcore drive works perfect with it, just need to nlite windows and it should be stupidly quick.

Need to get rid of my old EEE PC 900 now.

kevpuk said:
Sure I read on eeeuser.com that you need to disable the 4GB SSD to be safe......try that in BIOS ?

PiKe · 21 Jan 2009 at 12:16

Is the .NET Framework something people remove or just leave it be?

Jakus · 21 Jan 2009 at 20:23

PiKe said:
Is the .NET Framework something people remove or just leave it be?

Leave it, various apps need it

fish99 · 26 Feb 2009 at 23:07

fish99 said:
Just picked up a EEE PC 1000H (brand new and sealed) which I'm typing on now and having a bit of a battery issue - it doesn't seem to want to charge past 71%. Even if I turn the EEE off, it still won't go beyond that point. The charging process is definitely working because the battery started on about 35%.

I've tried taking the battery out and putting it back in.

Just to update this the battery was indeed faulty and was replaced. I now get around 7.5 hrs battery life and have also bought an 8 cell battery which gives me 9.5 hrs (wi-fi on, screen on 2-3 brightness).

Wi-fi off, screen on minimum and I get 11.5 hrs

Of course it's not much use with wi-fi off, but it's still nice.

9zap · 27 Feb 2009 at 12:48

YorkshirePadd26 said:
Update is it doesn't work ! my 900 EEE is the 12gb version with 2 drive s and the 4gb onboard one is locked as a master and the Runcore drive will not function correctly with it !

Runcore know about this now apparrently and are updating the drives ! so looks like its rma time ! great

I used Acronis Trueimage to create a bootable flash drive (8gb) containing TrueImage. Then I did a full backup to a folder on the flash drive.

After switching the SSD cards in the 900 I booted from the flash drive (press escape during power on) and restored the image to C:
That was it.

Duke · 14 Mar 2009 at 09:51

External SSD drive coming soon..

http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MzgzNzMsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=

crazyswede · 14 Mar 2009 at 17:02

Duke said:
External SSD drive coming soon..

http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MzgzNzMsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=

You buy their 32GB or 64GB SSD to change the internal SSD HDD and with those SDD HDDs you get an external enclosure to put the old SDD HDD in.

sketch145 · 14 Mar 2009 at 22:56

Got an EEE 901 about 3 months ago, they're really easy to upgrade.

So far I've added a 80gb 1.8" hard drive as well as the SSD, installed 2gb of RAM, installed windows 7 beta alongside windows xp (which actually works really well), and built a custom battery that gives me ~24hours battery life on power saving with the wifi/bluetooth off and the screen turned down to low brightness.

Next project is internal HSDPA.

ShaolinDreams · 15 Mar 2009 at 05:21

YorkshirePadd26 said:
I've just ordered one, so will post info when it comes

let us know if theres any significant difference in battery life (HDD vs SSD)

kevpuk · 17 Mar 2009 at 19:26

Well my 32GB Runcore SSD arrived today....surgery occurring tonight

YorkshirePadd26 · 18 Mar 2009 at 13:24

Both are SSD drives so there won't be much difference.

There is now a newer bios available for the Celeron 900 and it lets you upgrade the SSD without messing about around when you install windows from scratch.

It wasn't available earlier so i bought an EEE 900 A (Atom) and stuck the runcore drive in that as I needed a quick fix at the time.

ShaolinDreams said:
let us know if theres any significant difference in battery life (HDD vs SSD)

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