{"id":165,"date":"2012-06-13T00:45:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2012-11-14T21:26:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T02:26:43","slug":"win7-on-the-eeepc-901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/win7-on-the-eeepc-901\/","title":{"rendered":"Win7 on the eeePC 901"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figured out that I want to have a touchscreen computer in the garage. I am spending more time out there with the warm weather and figured &#8220;Hey! Why the eff not?&#8221;<br \/>\nSo, up into The Closet in my office with me to dig out the touchscreen LCD.<br \/>\nI had recently upgraded the eeePC to Fedora 17 (Man! 17? I remember when Fedora Core 1 was released!) and figured hooking this old monitor up to it would be easy-peasy and work like FM. Nope. The monitor, yes, that worked. But the touchscreen portion did not. Looking around online for a few minutes, it quickly became obvious that this was going to be a non-starter because of the amount of time it would take to edit, test, re-edit, re-test, etc, re-etc xorg.conf. Sorry, Linux. Those days are done for me.<br \/>\nThen I thought &#8220;Hey! What about Windows 7? You&#8217;ve always wanted to install it on here. Let&#8217;s go dig up your old notes and see why this thing is running Fedora.&#8221; I came here first. Nothing. Then I searched the Tech forum at NycNyne. Nothing! Could it be? Had I never attempted this since I upgraded the SSD in the thing?!?!??! I don&#8217;t seem to have any mental scars from doing battle with this, so it might actually be that I just got busy with a pregnant wife and never got around to trying this!<br \/>\nWell, I am doing it right now.<br \/>\nThe initial install part went fast enough. I am installing to the larger but slower second drive of the SSD. I am now in the dreaded &#8220;Here be monsters&#8221; portion of the install that I was warned about on other sites: video drivers not loaded yet&#8230;black screen. Every now and again I see the hard drive LED flicker, so I know it is in there doing something. If worse comes to worst, I will just pop another LCD on there and see what is happening.<br \/>\nTouchscreen driver:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.elotouch.com\/Support\/Downloads\/dnld.asp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured out that I want to have a touchscreen computer in the garage. I am spending more time out there with the warm weather and figured &#8220;Hey! Why the eff not?&#8221; So, up into The Closet in my office &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/win7-on-the-eeepc-901\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68,74,76,135,82,137,92],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-68","tag-eeepc","tag-fedora","tag-garage","tag-netbook","tag-touchscreen","tag-windows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NxlE-2F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":78,"url":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/cloud-communications-google-to-test-demand-for-cloud-computing-by-end-of-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":165,"position":0},"title":"Cloud Communications &#8211; Google to Test Demand for Cloud Computing By End of Year","author":"matthannan","date":"29 November 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Cloud Communications - Google to Test Demand for Cloud Computing By End of Year. 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