![]() ![]() Eee pc 901 xp support dvd drive software#I concluded, to my chagrin, Asus has decided to withhold the support software (a linux distro?) for whatever reason, and the forums were evidently being policed according to this policy, removing any useful information pertaining to it. Even searching the forums for what I imagined to be blatantly obvious issues (eg: where do I download the restore cd?) came up with bupkis. The support/download section had BIOS updates and the like, but nothing to help with a reinstall. (Don’t even bother visiting it, you’re better off going straight to google for this). I ransacked the official support site looking for what I needed: at the other end of the search I can honestly say I found zero useful material or info there. Its linux, right, should be able to get the firmware images easily from the manufacturer, right? I figured this wouldn’t be a problem, I’d just go to the Asus support site and grab the image. ![]() (Apparently you can hit F9 normally and it takes to to a ‘restore me from hidden partiton’ type GRUB menu). I wanted to get rid of XP and have a play with the stock linux O/S instead: I expected this to be an easy gimmie, but it was not, and ate up an evenings worth of my time googling around for solutions so I’m going to lay out the shortcuts here to hopefully save someone else the pain.Īs mentioned, the eeepc I acquired had XP installed (nlited) and no recovery DVD, so no option of using the built in rescue partition to restore the EEEPC back to the factory state. My recently aquired (used) asus eee pc 701 came with XP installed and no support CD/DVD. ![]()
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