Tried to breathe new life into an old toy.
I was one of the early adopters of the EeePC. After having read about this little device I knew that I would have to get one. When it was finally made available I snatched one of the earliest models, the EeePC 700 (2G Surf). It came equipped with Xandros Linux, but that was not suitable for my needs so I quickly installed an nlited XP, and it served me well for many months.
Almost two years have gone by, and my first EeePC had been long forgotten, boxed away in my room. I have since replaced it with a newer, more powerful netbook the 1005HA seashell. Upon discovering this lost treasure, I decided to try to make some use of it.
My plan was to do some of the popular mods to it. I wanted to dismantle the case, put on a touchscreen, remove the keyboard, and create a new case to have a super-portable windows tablet.
I first found out that the thing wouldn’t even boot into windows. After years of being out of commission, I assumed some of the solid state memory was damaged. Unfortunately, I was unable to install any operating system on it. I lost my old nlited XP, so I made a new one, and it went through the installation process, but it wouldn’t start up at all.
So, I gave up on windows entirely, and decided to look at some of the other options available. After all, there are numerous operating systems freely available specifically for netbooks. One at a time, I tried each of them, and every single one failed at some point, whether in the installation process, or in startup. Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Moblin, eeeXubuntu, even the original Xandros OS, nothing worked.
I sadly concede defeat in trying to restore my good ole’ Eee. It is now officially being retired to the gadget graveyard.
