Help with notebook, please.

NLAlston

NLAlston

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I have an ASUS Eee notebook (1005HA-PU1X-BK), of which I am having a slight issue with it. It had been sitting, dormant, for some years, and I just decided to pull it out, to send to our daughter who's studying in Finland. I had quite an experience/battle getting it up and running, again, but I finally managed to overcome a corrupted OS by reinstalling same.

Now, however, upon booting I am faced with some type of settings screen (right after the welcome screen), with a number of options which can be selected from. The last one (F2), for continuing with current parameters, is the one I always HAVE to hit - in order for the notebook to complete its bootup. Now, it is only one more step, in the scheme of things, to effectuate before gaining use of the computer, but I'd like to know if there is a way to get this thing set up so that the described action does NOT have to be done - EACH time?

Advanced thanks.
 
I would say you need to enter the bios and configure it correctly. Is the system date and time correct?
 
What OS? I have never seen a menu with F2 as an option after the Welcome Screen. I can see it if it were before the Welcome Screen.

This has to be before the the Welcome Screen in which case there's a setting in BIOS that needs to be configured.

It could be the CMOS battery and settings are not being stored in BIOS. You would have to replace the CMOS battery if the BIOS settings don't stick.

Also, this is not a notebook, it's a netbook.
 
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Maybe not really an option you had in mind, but I'd probably look for something else if you expect her to be productive with that. Even browsing basic web pages is really painful on those first gen netbooks on the original Atom.. (not to mention 1 GB of RAM...)
 
Thanks to everyone who responded. And, to Agent Smith, you are right: this is a Netbook, rather than a Notebook (didn't mean to screw that up :)).

Also, it has been mentioned that I should get something much better, for our daughter, as this unit falls way to short, now, on computering concerns. Yes, our daughter is studying, In Finland, and already has means to get on the Internet. We are sending her some things, and one of them was supposed to be a portable player for her exercising videos. However, that player is inoperable. In place of that, I am going to put all the videos on my 1T external hard drive, and marry that to the Netbook.

What I don't understand about that is this: the videos play perfectly, on my laptop. But, when I copy them to the external hard drive - and connect to the Netbook - the sound is terrible. It sounds as if the voices had been doubled a few times, with added reverb, which makes it all so unappetizing.
 
Agent Smith said:
What OS? I have never seen a menu with F2 as an option after the Welcome Screen. I can see it if it were before the Welcome Screen.
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The OS is WinXP. That, in and of itself, is problematic, owing to the fact that this OS has (now) long been unsupported. But getting this think to be embodied enough to fly around the web is, actually, not my aim (see my reply written just before this one to you).

Also, maybe it ISN'T the Welcome screen, that i should have made reference to. I am not at the Netbook, right now, and think I remember seeing the Windows XP splash screen, just before this other settings screen that pops up.
 
NLAlston said:
What I don't understand about that is this: the videos play perfectly, on my laptop. But, when I copy them to the external hard drive - and connect to the Netbook - the sound is terrible. It sounds as if the voices had been doubled a few times, with added reverb, which makes it all so unappetizing.
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That might be due to the power requirements for the external HDD.

Try all the USB ports and see if one helps.
 
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