Personal Computing and Development by Dag J. Nedrelid

Windows 7 on Asus Eee 900 PC

How did I install it?
Not hard at all. Create a bootable USB, copy the files over and BAM boot it up. I used a 4gb flash drive (Windows 7 Ultimate).

Did it work?
Oh yes. The OS runs smoother than full XP Pro SP3 (non 4gb ssd, it’s the 16gb linux pc), more fluid and less SSD lag during normal use. Sure it slows down during write/read intended operations like updating and saving/copying files but that’s expected. I would even say it even feels smoother than Win2000…

It boots fast enough and runs rather comfortable once up. I have not tweaked it in any way. IE8 is a hog to run and was annoyingly buggy at the asus website, but firefox runs smooth and was much more functional.

Drivers
Right after the main windows setup I ran windows update, it takes care of the video, ethernet and wireless drivers iirc. I then downloaded the latest BIOS, Asus Update Utility and ACPI- and Chipset drivers. I ran all of it in XP SP3 compability mode and as administrator, just to be sure.

So far, so good
After install I have about 7 GiB left and most things seem to work. I have not tested the camera, but the device manager shows no errors after the chipset and acpi driver setup. Sound worked out of the box. Suspend works, have not tested hibernation, gonna test it. Eth and wifi works. Hotkeys works, all of them – with proper OSD messages.

Tomorrow I’ll test hibernation and a 16gb SDHC card to install applications on or just use as storage space.

Update
Hibernation works, and the 16gb SDHC card is surprisingly quick and functional. I had a small glitch where the battery gave me some misguided information to begin with, but seems fine now.

I’m happy with the result and I’m going to keep the system on the eee 900 for now.