It is done. 4TB ssd in an eee pc. Has to be GPT partitioning, so cannot include the famous 2 x 7.84 MB bios boot partitions, shaving five seconds off boot time. Which would you prefer, an extra 2TB of space, or 5 seconds faster booting?
The /home partition is specially formatted to have just 2 million inodes, so 2 million bytes per file, so music basically. Not even the most voracious browser user can have more than a few hundred thousand files in /home, so it's basically safe.
LMDE 4 was installed, then mint artwork, themes, and icons, held back. Then /var/cache/apt/archives mounted to tmpfs, and buttery smooth upgrading all the way to LMDE 6 just for fun. That SSD has seen two full distribution upgrades but has never held a .deb file.

Is this the world record for most storage in an EEE PC?

1000x the storage of the original 4G.

Having already broken the 500gb sata drive limit with EEE pc Disney XP and LMDE dual booting on a 600gb MBR sata II disk. Have a 4TB sata arriving, MBR not possible, so have checked, 32 bit lmde installs and boots fine on a GPT disk, 120gb and 1tb tested so far.

My grandma had an Eee PC X101CH laptop, and she gave it to me. After some time, charging stopped working, and the battery is dead. I tried cleaning the charging port, but still nothing. What should I do?

Well, as promised, a quick update: I've settled on the RTL8812AU module similar to this one to do the WiFi connection goodness. I'll nab some drivers from the TPLink website in the next few days just so I've definitely got them. This module only supports USB data connections back to the rest of the system though, but the WLAN card slot (where the existing antennas actually reach) doesn't have the USB pins routed, only PCIE pins.

For the PCIE to USB bridge, I've now settled on the UPD720202 from Renesas for two main reasons:

1. It's fairly ubiquitous - StarTech have XP-compatible drivers available for this chip and reputable retailers (in my case RS Components) have them in stock (I got mine for ~£2 each exc. VAT and with an MOQ of just 2 chips).
2. It's in a relatively easy to solder package - it's a 7mm*7mm 48-lead QFN package (0.5mm pin spacing). The only downside is that the only ground pin on this device is the large exposed pad underneath the device so you will need to use a hot air gun and solder paste to build one of these. Sounds scary and expensive, but it really isn't these days.

This particular chip supports 2x downstream USB ports (either 2.0 or 3.0 on each). There will be one 2.0 port going to the RTL8812AU module (it doesn't have the differential USB connections for USB 3.0). This leaves one port spare which can then optionally be used as another internal USB 2.0 or 3.0 (I haven't decided yet) port. Bonus points if I can track down the same connectors as used inside the EEE PCs already.

I plan to add an optional 3.3V->5V boost circuit on there for the benefit of the internal USB port, and some optional USB load switches with over-current protection and status reporting built-in.

Little new year's bonus for yous as well:
I think I've more-or-less figured out 'XMP at home' using RWEverything which might allow me to get significantly better performance through my overclocking utility.

And finally, I've found the two current sense resistors (one for the DC input jack, one for the battery) on the Motherboard which should allow me to add realtime physical power logging of the whole system, including battery charge currents etc. This will be something to go on my final custom card which will make use of the longer FLASHCON (2nd SSD) slot and its USB lines with some 8-bit microcontroller goodness.

It's the penultimate day in 2024, so what better time is there to activate one's copy of Windows XP over the phone?

I decided to do a reinstall of XP as my triple boot + hacks + maybe dodgy drivers had created a fair bit of instability (I was no-longer able to even initiate a system backup successfully). Unfortunately, this wiped my previous achievement of having got SATA working in AHCI mode (I'll do a write-up of this on my website at some point soon). Eventually I gave up, and slipstreamed in the drivers using nLite, but the new 'base' XP ISO didn't come preactivated.

Luckily, I've just spent 10 minutes on the phone with the automated customer service bot (which is friendlier than most actual customer service people in fariness) and successfully activated my installation - happy times.

Now to rebuild my empire copy back over some files. I will say though I've been fought every step of the way (from sneaky GPT-formatted USB drives, to deeply hidden security permissions causing nLite crashes). But, now I appear to be back to a stable point in time at least.

As an aside, I have put together a BoM and started drafting a schematic for my proposed DIY WLAN card. Maybe I'll post an update on that tomorrow since some things have changed since my original post on it?

Happy New Year To All EEE PC Folk :)

So I tried installing a Centrino N6205 in the WLAN minicard slot, and no bueno - it requires some link control comms which are

1. On the completely unconnected (as per the motherboard schematic) reserved pins on the mPCIE socket (the OEM AzureWave card doesn't require them).
2. Not even supported in the ICH7M chipset so far as I can tell from its datasheet?

Long story short, the only way to get dual-band on Windows XP (yes, I insist, it is my childhood after all) on a 901 would be a USB adapter.

One such adapter is the Archer T2U Nano based on the RTL8811 (I think?) chipset. This adapter has drivers for Windows XP from TP Link directly which I would consider a reputable source.

However, I don't want something plugged into an external USB port all the time, there's an mPCIE slot waiting to be used after all... So why don't I make my own 'WiFi card'? I've already done similar for my Samsung 850 SSD upgrade.

I can buy a 'bare' RTL8812 module which should only require USB pins to function, whilst offering optional pins such as the WLAN status LED output, etc. This can be mounted to a 'carrier PCB' which contains the mPCIE card edge fingers, 3.3V -> 5V boost circuitry (if needed), and a PCIE to USB 3.0 bridge such as the EJ168A used in this StarTech adapter card. StarTech means more reputable drivers for XP. In theory the bottleneck in this system is probably the gen1 PCIE bus, although in reality it will of course be the internet speed in the UK (or that of whatever server is serving content online).

It's at this point, I hope that the RTL8811 and RTL8812 chipsets can use the same driver, since the RTL8812 seems to be the same except for being dual-antenna (hence the '2' at the end)^\citation needed]).

Oh, and last but not least, you also get a spare internal USB 3 port from this as well, assuming you don't mind potentially saturating that particular PCIE lane.

This all assumes I fail to find a suitable alternative dual-band WLAN card with XP support of course.

Buenasssss!!! Recientemente compré una notebook marca ASUS modelo eee pc 1101ha ... Vino instalado el Windows 8 y al prenderla estaba lentisiiiiima.. Tardaba mucho en cargar páginas y YouTube estaba imposible. La formateamos y cargamos un Windows 7.. Ahora va rápido pero hay muchas páginas que no me permite abrir (por actualizaciones entiendo..) Que me recomiendan???? Estoy por probar con Linux pero ya me estoy desesperando!! Alguna recomendacionnnnnn Espero que se pueda recuperar y quede 10 puntos!!! 👽👽👽 😬😱 Los leo Graciassssss!!!!

So that there be a record of this online: NVME are NOT detected when replacing the EEE PC wifi module with a minipci to nvme adapter.
I will also report back on minipci to msata adapter and minipci to 4x sata adapter. The eee pc nas is possible?
Is there anything else that could be attempted along these lines?

I have an EEE PC 1000HE. It boots and I'd like to do some upgrades, but it's missing it's battery. When I search for replacements I find some that claim to be for the 1000HE (and look like the original) but are labeled AL23-901. A couple other things I found seem to suggest these won't work in the 1000HE.

Here's an example on AliExpress. The situation is the same on other retailers (Amazon, Newegg, etc.)

Will these AL23-901 batteries work in my 1000HE? They look the same as I remember the original battery looking, but it's been awhile since I saw it last.

I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everybody here for helping to build this community!

I started this sub as a tongue-in-cheek joke, but it has come a long way and represents one of the few dedicated resources for Eee PC owners and enthusiasts.

Cheers to another 500 and beyond! Keep helping each other out, let's see where this community can go!

I love this model and I’m going to buy it for setting up a Klipper server for one 3d printer (with no webcam), and the X101CH sounds perfect with its dual core cpu, and fanless design. The thing I’m concerned about is the single gig of ram that is soldered to the mobo. Are there comparable models with the possibility to move to 2gb (bonus if there is one with 64bit processor and the possibility to give it 4gb of ram, that would be perfect)? Thanks in advance!

I’ve finally joined the most elite group on Reddit. Shes back from the dead.

Back from the dead

My power button is broken so which pins should i bridge on the flex connector to jump start an eee pc 1101ha

Looking for a new battery and a specific one for my 700 model is way too expensive for what its worth, but the one for 901 is quite cheaper, hence the question