13Nov2006
There has been a lot of people asking about this. I managed to get it working. Here are the simple steps!
- Make sure you have at least the Vista Rc1 installed. A lot of drivers might have been installed when Vista does the automatic updates.
- For the rest of the drivers you could just use the driver backup CD from Asus
- Now for th wireless. Use the backup CD or download it from here and install the “Wireless Lan Driver and Application” Yes, it might install and will refuse to work.
- The easy fix. Restart, you’ll be prompted with an error about the “Wireless Lan Driver and Application” - Don’t worry
- Go to your Device Center and choose the wireless card and say “update driver” … and browse for the directory that you installed the application. (default being “Program Files > ASUS > WLAN Card Utilities”) Now assuming that you have the original xp untouched, you can browse the directory out there too.
- You’ll find a directory within named “Driver”. Choose that and say “OK”
- Tada… you have it working.
- Now go ahead and uninstall the application (WLAN Card Utilities), you really don’t need it, you can use Windows network manager.
Or the super duper easy way. Download the driver files from here (this is same as the one mentioned above) and get it going. If at all you run in to issues do post them here. I wonder why Asus has bundled the driver in an application.
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02Nov2006
So Have you wondered what that “Windows Vista Capable” means? Well according to Microsoft this is what it is!. So I installed the Vista RC1 (I’m still looking for the RC2 but could not get it -any clue?) The install was pretty straight, it was getting all the drivers which was way trickier than I thought.
So you see that R2H easily qualifies what Microsoft demands. Well does it do everything that is expected of it? That’s exactly what we wanted to find out. It takes about an hour to complete the full installation. Believe it or not “Vista is way better than the Windows XP Tablet Version on this device”.
Continue reading ‘Playing with Vista on the Asus R2H’
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28Aug2006
So looks like Vista should be just fine on the eo, well as expected there were some issues here and there, Thoughtfix has posted the details along with this video.
- It defaults to 800×600 with no antialiasing. The text is near unreadable until you fix the resolution. The wrong resolution sticks the screen in a flicker until reboot.
- The XP graphics driver works fine.
- I couldn’t get the touchscreen to work at all, even after installing the driver.
- All the wireless LAN driver installs “errored out” saying they must be run on Windows XP or Windows 2000. I even tried installing them in “XP SP2 compatibility mode” and still failed.
Read more at Ultra Mobile Geek
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07Aug2006
CTitanic has posted a step by step process of how to upgrade your HDD on your tabletkiosk eo 7100 series. Not to mention his disclaimer on your comfort level and warranty.
First of all, I need to say that I have been working with PCs professionally for the last 12 years of my life so what could seem easy for me could not be in that way for some of you. In another hand, if you break your eo in the process of upgrading it, you just voided the unit warranty.
Secondly, it’s going to be a lot easier if you select the HDD size that you need right when you place your order at TabletKiosk. That’s my recommendation, lets the experts do the job for you. After all, TabletKiosk is giving you the opportunity to configure your UMPC in the way you want it, something that no other seller is doing at this moment [...]
If you would like to do what he did, it should be pretty simple due to the fact that he has given clear instructions on his article along with pictures to guide you through.
Upgrading eo’s HDD [Ultra Mobile PC Tips]
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31Jul2006
If you’ve been using opera you might have noticed the cool feature that lets you browse/navigate the pages by mouse gestures. Firefox was lacking this feature, jkOnTheRun talks about the extension that adds this feature to firefox. This will be a very handy when you are using the UMPC (most of the time without a mouse)
Add-on allows using gestures in Firefox | [jkOnTheRun]
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