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Posted: 27/05/2011 9:05 AM
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Hi, can anyone advise me how to load XP on my eee, has linux on it but I am not happy with this,
and as usual ASUS support is totally useless
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Posted: 27/05/2011 2:05 PM
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have you googled it?
i know i say that alot... but...
The HARDEST thing to do is get the XP installer onto a USB device, (if you dont have a USB CD-ROM) to do the install, then deleting the old Linux partition.
i THINK you need to use BARTpe to destroy the partition, and there's a bios setting that needs to be changed....
PERSONALLY, i was given an EEEPC for the same reason. had linux, didn't like it, wanted windows, couldn't do it, here, i dont want it sort of thing.
All i needed it to do was play DIVX's off my server while i'm in bed, and can't sleep, and I spent day's working out how to do it, (install XP). THEN I stumbled onto easy peasy linux, and a how to install XBMC on ubuntu, (which is what easy peasy is based on)
It installed all the drivers, and i did VERY little setup.
The only down side is it's a 3.5gb install, (after XBMC is installed and updated), and on a 4gb drive, doesn't leave room to do anything else.
BUT it works a treat, and it's ALMOST fast enough to stream 720p content.
THEN I found "air video" app for the iphone/ipad. much better, and will on the fly convert ANYTHING the computer u're streaming from can play.
will start playing a 1080p MKV inside of 5secs running an old AM2 quad core.
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