Comments on: Playing with Vista on the Asus R2H

By: Vista — To be or Not to be at Only UMPC | Ultra-Mobile PC

Vista — To be or Not to be at Only UMPC | Ultra-Mobile PC — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:57:52 +0000

[...] When we installed Vista on the Asus R2H we did face a lot of issues but that was when Vista was in it’s beta. Now after the launch of Vista a lot of people seem to having varied opinions. [...]

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:16:52 +0000

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.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:06:08 +0000

@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.

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:49:01 +0000

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?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:00:13 +0000

@ 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

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:24:28 +0000

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

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:19:39 +0000

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

By: JanP

JanP — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:17:23 +0000

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

Anyone have a solution?

By: erica

erica — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:37:50 +0000

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?

By: Asusmania: Just got the R2H at Only UMPC | Ultra-Mobile PC

Asusmania: Just got the R2H at Only UMPC | Ultra-Mobile PC — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:52:56 +0000

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By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:45:54 +0000

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

By: ヒビコレ

ヒビコレ — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:57:16 +0000

ASUS R2H自分メモ…

ASUS R2Hをポチッとなしてしまったので到着を待つ間の自分メモ。

ASUS R2H公式サイト
ASUS R2H スペシャルサイト
WindowsCE FANの ULPC Wiki
マイクロソフトの ULPC公式サイト
ULPCの画面サイズエミ…

By: psychoboogie

psychoboogie — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:42:57 +0000

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….

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:43:05 +0000

@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

By: bigdoofus

bigdoofus — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:59:19 +0000

Speaking of Vista, did you get the Vista upgrade coupon with the R2H?

By: GottaBeMobile.com

GottaBeMobile.com — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:50:09 +0000

Vista On a Asus R2H UMPC…

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By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:16:32 +0000

@ Roman: Hope you’ll get the one that you want soon

By: Roman

Roman — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:49:19 +0000

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.