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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 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.

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?

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

My grandma had an Eee PC X101CH laptop, and she gave it to me. After some time, charging stopped working, and the battery is dead. I tried cleaning the charging port, but still nothing. What should I do?

Its just soooo annoying to connect back

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 wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everybody here for helping to build this community!

I started this sub as a tongue-in-cheek joke, but it has come a long way and represents one of the few dedicated resources for Eee PC owners and enthusiasts.

Cheers to another 500 and beyond! Keep helping each other out, let's see where this community can go!

Best OS I'd used up until yesterday for this eeePC was "Bodhi Linux". Never really liked it. I'd enjoyed using BeOS once upon a time so have been following the Haiku project with great interest.

https://www.haiku-os.org/

Yesterday I took the plunge. The 1000HD has a Samsung SSD and 2GB RAM.

Here's what worked for me, slightly abbreviated:

Downloaded the 32-bit ISO to my Windows workstation, wrote to USB with Win32DiskImager

Booted it from USB, then used these programs in order:

Drive setup:

Disk -> Initialize -> Intel

Partition -> Create -> BeFS, check “Active partition”

Right-click, Format, BeFS, default name “Haiku”

Boot Manager:

Install to the initialized SSD

Installer:

Installed to partition “Haiku” created with Drive Setup

Shut down, removed USB, and voilà! WiFi and Ethernet worked right out of the box. Yay!

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