As part of an ongoing effort on the Windows Embedded team, our management encourages us to seek out new relevant devices to our industry to get a chance to understand these new devices and see how our products may apply. One of these new gadgets that I felt would apply was the Asus EEE PC! After ordering one, and patiently waiting, it has finally arrived! I’m going to use the steps in my previous article on how to run TAP from WinPE to get a hardware profile so I can make an XPe Image for this device.
Before I do that, here’s some interesting info on the Asus EEE PC.
Specs:
In the Box:
Size:
* Dollar is intended to gauge size, and is not included in the box.
Okay let’s begin!
First we need to configure the ASUS system to boot from a USB drive, by default the ASUS is configured to boot from USB. I am using an M-Systems/Sandisk SSD with a USB Adaptor it shows up in the BIOS as a hard drive, so I must change a setting in the BIOS so it boots the SSD first.
USB Drive I’m using:
Insert your USB Drive into the ASUS System, and then boot into the BIOS by pressing F2.
Go to the Boot menu, and then to boot priority, make sure the Removable Disk is set as the first boot device.
Now under the Boot Menu, go under Hard Disk Drives, in my case USB:M-Sys uDiskOnCh is set as the 1st Boot Device.
After you have made these changes, it’s time to reboot the PC and boot into WinPE using your drive you made from my last blog article!
Once you’re booted into WinPE, run TAP.
Be sure to save your mydevices.pmq to a location other than the RAM drive, in my case the D: drive was the actual location for the USB drive.
Import your mydevices.pmq into Target Designer, add in your components (Many of the drivers for the ASUS are not in Target Designer, see this article on how to Componentize Drivers.), and VIOLA, an XPe image for the ASUS EEE PC.
Here’s my ASUS booting XPe in the First Boot Agent Stage:
I’m going to use my newly created ASUS EEE XPe PC to Remote Desktop into my Office Desktop during meetings.
- Parag
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This is very good. I have already prepared working version of XPe on this. We are in the process of finalizing the image
Hi Team, THXX!!! Im Italian Pls were i can BUY
HELP ME!!!!
In Italy we have only EEPC 700 :(
I believe that the Asus EEE PC 700 is the same thing. Check out: http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product.htm
Hi Chaps,
I just had my first good look at the 2133 from HP today - how long will it take before some can prove that this will work as well? ;-))
I'd have thought that as it's based on a Via chipset it should be pretty easy?
Cheers,
Dave
Someone can provide the pmq file.
Johnny
I tried to build XPe for EEE PC - all is OK, but 1) display properties won't work and 2) Synaptics touchpad is present in devices but mouse isn't moving when I use touchpad.
How to fix this issues?
Hi There!!Great article.
I want to apply the same article on a samsung nc10.
I've only a question,is it possible?how i can insert the driver that i need on my XPe image??
Parag,
is it possible to create something like that http://www.windowsfordevices.com/c/a/News/150-netbook-runs-Windows-CE/ with Windows CE 6.0 and Asus EEE PC 701?
I'd like to obtain a very stable system, which is user friendly for the Windows user and - in the same time - such a user can't set up any software there since is is difficult or impossible :).
If system hangs - just restart it and it works again. No viruses, no other BS - system is R/O, use it as is.
So, the only thing he (she) can do - use the "firmware" apps only.
What do you think?
Thanks!
P.S. Please do a favor - answer to mnvbox@gmail.com.
You might want to ask your question in the Windows CE newsgroup (http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsce.embedded), as we are more familiar with XPe and Windows Embedded Standard but nots familiar with CE.
Thanks.