Comments on: Aspire One SSD Vista with ewf (recommends 1.5GB RAM)

By: Humberto

Humberto — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:45:42 +0000

Hello
I bought, on eBay, a Aspire One with the 8Gb SSD and with 512Mb memory. The laptop has a faulty screen (broken) and I bought it to use as a “desktop” for internet access and multimedia. The laptop didn’t have any OS installed (when I bought it). I downloaded a recover disk (with linpus) but during recovery the system hangs up. Can you please advise which the best Linux distro for this laptop? Any link for recovery disk (in case problem is with the one I downloaded)?
Many thanks
Regards

By: Morris Lee

Morris Lee — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:47:09 +0000

@nadia,

Are you doing clean install or an upgrade? do you have grub boot loader(the boot loader for linux)

I believe the grub bootloader sometimes interfere with vista’s service pack or possibly an upgrade.

Morris Lee

By: nadia

nadia — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:13:19 +0000

Hi Morris,

my fren asked me to upgrade her laptop Aspire 4535 from starter pack to ultimate however during final stage at “Completing installation”, it was hang few hours. i did try installed many times but the result was same. can u help me out on this prob?

By: Morris Lee

Morris Lee — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:42:56 +0000

@Ana,

it sounds like driver issue, you may want to check the drivers, your windows may have acquired one off Windows update, that one may not work so well with it.

then again, check if you have installed other hardware, it might not be getting enough power to the card therefore the device is dropping from the motherboard.

By: Ana

Ana — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:38:17 +0000

Hi morris, it’s me again.

The other day I was doing some things online and all of a sudden I lost my internet connection. At first the wireless network adapter detected some networks but after a few seconds it appeared as disabled in the network and sharing center. I tried to Enable it but it disappeared so I tried to reinstall the drivers but it told me the card was not present.

I opened the netbook to see if the card was a little loose or something and everything was perfect, I put all the pieces back together and when I turned on the netbook I was able to access my wireless network again.

All this was 3 days ago, a few minutes ago the same thing happened so I shutdown the netbook and took away the battery, then I waited for about 15 seconds and put the battery back and turned the netbook on, the problem was solved.

I have this aspireone since december 08 and this thing never happened with XP or Vista, I installed windows 7 2 months ago.

I’m thinking this could be a temperature related problem but it’s just a guess.

Do you have an idea what could be wrong with my machine?

Thanks Morris

By: Morris Lee

Morris Lee — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:11:47 +0000

@ahmsag,

I no longer have the file, due to harddrive failure, I will try to see what I have backed up.

By: ahmsag

ahmsag — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:54:50 +0000

The Link for the exe is down.

Can you reupload it?

Thank you

By: Ana

Ana — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:34:56 +0000

Thanks Morris

By: Morris Lee

Morris Lee — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:28:38 +0000

@Ana,

Easy, right click on the setup and click “Compatibility” and use “Windows Vista (Service Pack 2)” apply, ok, and you are good to go.

By: Ana

Ana — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:55:08 +0000

Hi Morris, I just switched from vista to 7 on my aspire one AOA 150 and so far everything is great, my only doubt is the launch manager driver, the one for vista didn’t work, it says there no OS present when I want to install it.

Could you help me out please??

Thx Morris