just got my new EEE Asus 1215N with Windows 7 on it… 😦 I really don’t like it I’m old I like Windows XP and also I do a lot of scripting for other clients and I use my laptop as a test machine so I need to have XP on it.
Here’s the specs(from PCWizard)
> Platform : Intel PineTrail > Motherboard : Asus 1215N > Chipset : Intel NM10 > CPU : Intel Atom Dual-Core D525 @ 1800MHz > RAM : 2048MB (2 x 1024 DDR3-SDRAM ) > Video Card : Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 > Hard Disk : Seagate ST9320325AS (320GB) > Monitor : HSD121PHW1 – 12″ (16:10) > LAN : Attansic (Now owned by Atheros) AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet > WLAN : Broadcom BCM4313 802.11b/g LP-PHY > USB 3.0 > Bluetooth 3.0If are going to buy this I think is great just to things bother me a little: touchpad button (hard to press) and power supply plug is very tiny and I think easy to break if you are a frequent flyer so pay attention)
P.S. I suggest you to install after synaptics touchpad this program and disable all the two fingers gestures in synaptics utility, with this one you can right click on the touchpad like on the iPhone (one finger+ tap with second finger)
http://code.google.com/p/two-finger-scroll/downloads/list
So I removed 7 and installed XP SP3 on it, and voilà everything works except…. that damn Optimus ION2 Nvidia… my hardware ids are: VEN_10DE&DEV_0A76&SUBSYS_84461043 and
I’ve tried this so long:
– Asus 1015N WinXP drivers (adding also my hw info to the inf cause they weren’t there)
– Asus 1215N drivers (on site support page are claimed as WinXP/Vista but in the inf are only Vista/7)
– 260.63 beta from Nvidia which is the nearest thing that I’ve found: in the inf there is already a VEN_10DE&DEV_0A76&SUBSYS_84471043 instead of 8446 I’ve tried to modify the info but in the end no good results at least I have my device recognized with Yellow Mark in Device Manager)
if you look at nvam.inf you’ll find in
260.63 vista verde notebook beta
%NVIDIA_DEV.0A76.01% = Section057, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A76&SUBSYS_84461043 %NVIDIA_DEV.0A76.02% = Section057, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A76&SUBSYS_84471043
260.63 XP verde notebook beta
%NVIDIA_DEV.0A76.01% = Section040, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0A76&SUBSYS_84471043
hope that in a future beta for XP Nvidia will include the same hardware that is already in the Beta for 7/Vista.
if anyone has news about it please comment this post, so we can be helpful to others… (also to me 🙂 )
—EDIT 11 October —
Hi,
I’ve made a self extracting RAR package with the drivers for windows XP (as October 2010)
password: roadtoyourass
http://www.mediafire.com/download/61bohe4642k5es9/asus_1215n_xp.exe
You can find in it:
Asus ACPI Driver v.1.0.0.1 (to have brightness control working)
Audio-V6_0_1_6098 (for 7 and XP)
Bluetooth 5.6.0.3900
Intel Chipset 9.1.1.1020
Atheros AR813X/AR815X LAN (for 7 and XP)
Broadcom WIFI 5.100.9.142 (for 7 and XP)
Synaptics_v14_0_3_C
NVIDIA HDMI Audio driver xp_vista_win7_1.00.00.59
also in the package you can try out TwoFingerScroll the touchpad software mentioned above.
You should have at end of the install just the NVIDIA card not recognized.
on the road to your ass 