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02Nov2006

Playing with Vista on the Asus R2H

Posted by Joe in Analysis, Asus, Hardware, OnlyUMPC Exclusive, Reviews, Tips & Tricks and Troubleshooting.

The Windows Sidebar does eat up some good deal of memory but sure looks good.

Funny that the processor is at 100% in this picture, what was I doing?

I love the Vista as the main operating system than the XP. I finally manged to get all the drivers installed and most of the features that i wanted. I’m still having trouble making the shortcuts work (hard button ones on the both sides of the unit) Which are supposed to launch the Touchpack(which cannot be installed on Vista anyways) and the Asus’ utility for managing resolution, brightness, volume, etc. I’ve not really installed a lot of softwares other than some utilities.

Overall the Vistagami looks promising than the Origami.

18 Responses to “Playing with Vista on the Asus R2H”

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1 Roman Nov 3rd, 2006 at 3:49 pm

I had short moments of joy with R2H - today I get it. Very nice set but big unpleasantly surprise - R2H havn’t camera. It is R2H-BH047T. I return R2H and I’ll wait.
2 Joe Nov 3rd, 2006 at 4:16 pm

@ Roman: Hope you’ll get the one that you want soon
3 bigdoofus Nov 4th, 2006 at 8:59 am

Speaking of Vista, did you get the Vista upgrade coupon with the R2H?
4 Joe Nov 4th, 2006 at 9:43 am

@bigdoofus: Nope I realized it like a few days later. The Vista Express Upgrade is valid between October 26, 2006 and March 15, 2007. I guess if you are buying during this time you should get the upgrade. I bought it on 25th
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/expressupgrade.mspx
5 psychoboogie Nov 5th, 2006 at 5:42 am

was just wondering how vista performed on the r2h? seems to be a power/memory hog?

also wondered if the r2h will take a gig chip or not? not much info out there on it. just talk.

thx….
6 Eric Nov 8th, 2006 at 7:45 am

I have Vista running on the R2H. Did you get wireless working? I see from the screenshots you are connected to the internet. Also, how did you get bluetooth to turn on? I installed the drivers and the bluetooth manager, but it does not respond to my requests to turn it on. Last question is the ASUS config utility (the bottom right button). Volume and brightness work, but not the screen resolution change.

Thanks
7 erica Nov 9th, 2006 at 8:37 am

Speaking of wireless.. Have you noticed any problem getting and keeping a wireless connection with your R2H? I’m sitting next to a laptop that gets an excellent 54Mbps connection, but my R2H gets low connectivity and drops constantly.. I’m wondering if it’s due to the lack of antenna on the R2H. Any one else run into this?
8 JanP Nov 10th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

I have the same problems with the wireless connection of the R2H, low connection and drops.

Anyone have a solution?
9 Patrick Nov 11th, 2006 at 8:19 am

Question at Joe,

How dit you get the wireless installed in vista, Two weeks ago i tried vista, but coul’d not get de wireless installed.

So can you give my instrusctions, or can you tell my where i can find the drivers that will work in vista?

Thanks in advance
Patrick
10 Patrick Nov 11th, 2006 at 8:24 am

I have a question for Joe,

How dit you get the wireless to work in vista. About two weeks ago i tried vista RC2 on my R2H but indeed the drivers on the cd do not work.

My R2H doesn’t have the bluetooth, webcam and has “only” a 40 GB harddrive,
but i love the R2H. And even more if i get vista to work completely with wireless lan.

So can you give my instructions or a location to the working vista drivers?

Thanks in advance
Patrick
11 Joe Nov 13th, 2006 at 10:00 am

@ Eric, Patrick and those who have the same issue: Sorry about the delay but please read this http://onlyumpc.com/news/asus-r2h-getting-the-wireless-working-on-vista
12 Evan Nov 14th, 2006 at 7:49 am

Can someone please clarify the step where he says to “quick format the drive to NTFS”?

Is this an option that is presented once Vista begins to install?

Or is this something that I am supposed to know how to do before I even insert the Vista disk I burned?

If its the latter - can someone please just give me a quick step-by-step on how to format the drive to NTFS? Would I format one of the partitions? the whole drive?
13 Joe Nov 14th, 2006 at 8:06 am

@Evan

No by default Asus ships the R2H in FAT 32. If you planning to install Vista say on the D driver and you don’t have data in it (do back it up if you have) Just right click on the drive and say “Format” (which will erase all the data and reformat it) make sure you choose “NTFS” as the file system.
14 Evan Nov 14th, 2006 at 8:16 am

I don’t remember offhand, as the R2h is at home and I’m at work… but doesn’t it have the hard drive in 2 partitions? Do I leave both partitions and just do what you explained to one of them? If so, how do I know which one? Also, does it matter if I check the “quick format” box or not?

I have no data or anything that I need to save on the R2H, its basically right out of the box… but I’d like to get vista on it.

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