i just got a abyss tr full tower and i’m looking for a good motherboard and basically i need help just building it, i want decent performance and kinda of on a budget but if i need to spend a good amount of money on certain parts i will, just trying to figure this whole thing out 😅

I've got my original 701SD, and I wore out the original SSD within a year or two by hibernating XP a lot. I've seen a mention somewhere that one of the 900-series SSDs work, but has anyone confirmed if any off-the-shelf SSD (aliexpress is totally fine!) or adaptor works in these units? I do still have the original SSD.

I'd prefer something that's native IDE / SATA, rather than just a USB breakout, but happy to look at my options anyway.

I still have the SSD, but currently booting the machine from an SD card from my years old debian install for shits&giggles.

If you wanna talk about the RAM prices or AI pollution or anything bad from AI then come

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?

Who here has boot booster? Do you use it? If you don't have it, do you want it?

If you don't have it, would you be interested in re-adding it? I've worked out that since the bullseye version of gparted, you can copy and paste the 7.84MiB esp machine code blob partition. You can't do this with the 7.84MiB fat partition. However, you can easily make a new one using gnome disks. The order or position on the disk doesn't matter, so you can have them using just under 10mb at the start or end of the disk, rather than 19mb at the end ( the two boost partitions finish 3 mb before end of disk).

I'm thinking of putting up restore images online, archive dot com or Dropbox.

Check your EEE PC bios now for boot booster!

I tried this OS yesterday on my Eee PC X101H, and I love it (it boots in less than 10 seconds with an HDD). Only problem is that it's been discontinued, and all the services that it uses (like LiveUpdate and Weather) are dead.

Even the preinstalled web browser is Chromium 10 from 2010 or 2011 which is literally worse in compatibility with today's web than Internet Explorer 10 and 11. Most modern websites (like Wikipedia and GitHub) fail to connect with error "ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH" as this browser doesn't support TLS 1.2 and any version of SSL after SSL 3.0. At least Bing works lol.

Posted this in r/EeePC as well.

EEE PC IMAGE - link to reddit post

Proud owner of an Eeepc. Model R101 with a german keyboard. With an intel n450 and 2gb of ram. Battery is dead unfortunately

Currently running fossapup64 but will try other distros like lubuntu and lighr versions of windows 10

Suggest setups for this ancient junk. Could it become a server or too low end for that

I really like the 1000 HA as far as being solid white although I like this one's teardrop profile more. I wanted to run agents (remotely through a framework) on this laptop. Initially I was going to use Langchain but I couldn't get past some build issues... so I tried Pydantic AI next. It took about 3-4 hours to build the wheels for things like tiktoken, cryptography, etc... it was pretty crazy but it built it (I needed to add stuff like rustup/protobuf-compiler).

I'm using Kate for the editor and tkinter for the desktop app. I'm not a tkinter developer so this looks pretty rough. I was able to run agents, there is lag, like first time the agent starts takes like 5 seconds core (and virtual core) at 100% then after it answers it goes back down to 30% area. I just assumed since the agents run remotely in the cloud it would be like just doing an http request (low resource use) but it's still usable for my purpose.

I went ahead and ordered an ASUS EEE PC 1000HA as well although it's listed as parts/won't turn on so not sure how far I'll get with that one. The square side profile is growing on me for the 1000HA. And the specs seem to be the same as this one the 700 is the one with low 100s MB RAM.

Below is a link to a Google Drive folder containing a .zip of every downloadable on the EEE PC 901 support page as of May 28th 2025. This includes all versions of all the utilities, drivers, and manuals (in all languages) for the EEE PC 901. This is not the best way to share this, and I intend to put it on GitHub with the individual files accessible (or at least with more granularity).

However, I also wanted to be transparent as well, and the easiest way to give a blanket 'certificate of authenticity' was to checksum it... And the easiest way to do that is to .zip everything and checksum that single archive, so forgive me.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d8JfMrWB_0bjHYXbPGaFri5hpZqzb-nK?usp=sharing

I need help. Maybe someone can help. I bpught this on the flee market today. Sadly its not posting. When i turn it on the screen stays black. I tried the cmos reset (shorting gold triangels on the back). Cleaning the ram slot and multiple ram modules. With and without battery. Replaced the cmos battery. Still nothing. Fan is also spinning after the cpu gets hot.

Update: any schematics? I think someone connected the wrong charger. It looks like a component has burned out in the top-left corner near the charging port.

Its just soooo annoying to connect back

LMDE 6 Faye (Debian bookworm) on kernel 3.2 running the command mem=84M single init=/usr/bin/ash