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May 8th, 2009 I am again installing Win XPP on the second partition of my Eee Asus 1000H from a Trascend USB Drive of 4Gigabyte. The first partition already has another instance of WinXPP which I will use to create the needed devices.

Requirements:
- Eee PC 1000H os the like
- USB Drive, I have used a Trascend 4Giga but 1Giga should be enough
- A working computer to read the tutorial and prepare the USB Drive
- A Windows XPP CD or ISO file or the extracted content in a Folder

1 – On working computer. Connect the USB Drive and take not of the letter it will be given.

2 – Download USB_MultiBoot_10.zip, unzip it on a folder and run USB_MultiBoot_10.cmd, hit any key to continue, then hit H and the format tool will appear, select the USB Drive and format it. Once done, click close

3 – Hitting 0 allows you to toggle between USB Flash Drive or USB Hard Drive. You should leave it as USB Flash

4 – Hit 1 and the dialog will appear so that you can point out to your WinXPP extracted folder

5 – Hit 2 and select the USB Drive Letter properly

6 – Hit 3 and the copy will start. Answer YES to any dialog would appear, select Unattended Install when prompt. If your WinXPP is a nLited (manipulated) copy, it might ask you to enter the serial number, and some general info like the user account to be created etc

7 – Create a Folder Drivers on your USB Drive and copy there the Drivers of your 1000H.
Required drivers are:

7.1 – Graphics (VGA)
7.2 – Asus Chipset Intel
7.3 – WLAN (Wireless Lan)
7.4 – LAN Atheros (Wired Lan)
7.5 – Audio
7.6 – ACPI
7.7 – Bluetooth
7.8 – TouchPad
7.9 – SuperHybrid

8 – Once done (after several minutes), remote safely the USB Drive and stick it into your 1000H, keep on using your working computer to follow this tutorial

9 – Turn on computer Asus Eee and hit ESC to choose where to boot from, select JetFlash Trascend 4Giga, hit enter

10 – The Win XPP Setup starts, choose option 1 (Text Install), hit enter

11 – Select o create partition and format it, I did it in NTFS, not quick, confirm by pressing F

12 – Setup starts to copy files and this is very slow, it took about 50 minutes since the USB is probably using 1.1 drivers. First Reboot.

13 – Since I have another instance of WinXPP on partition 1, I did not hit ESC, so I booted from HD which shows me multiboot options. The new one is the current setup from USB, so select this one and hit enter. Setup continues from USB. Second Reboot.

14 – Desktop appears and you will be auto logged, assuming you are using a good version of manipulated and activated Windows XPP. It is time to add drivers.

The best order is to install drivers this way:

14.1 – Graphics Drivers, so the screen resolution will be 1024*600. Reboot.
14.2 – Asus Chipset Driver by executing setup.exe. Reboot.
14.3 – WLAN Drivers so you can connect to the Internet if you have WiFI
14.4 – LAN Drivers so you can connect to the Internet if you don’t have WiFi
14.5 – Audio Drivers. Reboot.
14.6 – ACPI
14.7 – Bluetooth Drivers. Log off, log back on.
14.8 – Touchpad
14.9 – SuperHybrid

15 – Proceed to configure your devices, like network cards and add the software you need

16 – If you have installed only this instance of XPP, you’re fine, if you have 2 instances and this is on the second partition, remember to edit your c:\boot.ini and rename the entries with a better name otherwise you will have 2 entries called “Windows Professional”. The best is to call them “WinXPP on C Drive” and WinXPP on D Drive”. Remember to make a backup copy of boot.ini and to remove the attribute “Read Only” otherwise you won’t be able to save it after then changes

17 – Enjoy and please comment your successfully stories here!

The recent update of Firefox 3.6.2 changed the place where it loads any new tab you would open.

Previous versions were loading new tabs at the end of the tab bar.

This update loads new tabs next to the tab you are in and this creates massive confusion since people have started to lost new tabs because there were expecting them to be at the right end of the tab bar.

To change this as it was before, do as follows:

- Open a new Tab in Firefox and in the location type “about:config” and hit enter
- If you get a warning message, just confirm that you want to access that page
- Once the “configuration” tab is loaded, in filter copy and paste this “browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent”
- It will filter all the settings and will show you only the one we need
- Verify the setting is Value= True, double click and it should change to Value=False

You’re done, now Firefox will open any new tab at the right end of the tab bar

Comments welcome!

Internet rumors go around Windows 7 on EEEPc so we have done that and one task is to update the bios with the 2204 version 26/10/2009.

We have used a USB SD Card Reader and a 512Megabyte MMC Card with its SD adapter but in general every old SD (FAT16) should be ok

Here are the steps:

1) Download the bios from EEEPc Asus Site and unzip it. The file will look like 1000H-ASUS-2204.ROM but you have to rename it to 1000H.rom to be able to use it

2) Insert your USB Pen Drive or USB Card Reader and format it as FAT16 then copy the file 1000H.rom onto it

3) Make sure your 1000H is powered off, no USB Device is plugged, it is running on power supply and the battery is fully charged. Insert the USB Pen Drive or USB Card Reader with the bios on it and boot the machine.

4) During POST press ALT+F2 and the Bios Update Utility will start looking for USB Device, it will find yours and will start reading the 1000H.rom file, once done it will delete the current bios and then will replace it with the new one. At the end the procedure will ask you to power the machine off, remove the USB and restart it

5) When you boot it the new bios configuration utility will show up for you to configure some stuff just like boot order priority etc, just do what you need and save it

6) Congratulations! You now have your bios updated and you may proceed to install Windows 7 Ultimate

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