Steps to a happy XP experience

[techie]

After installing, removing XP and installing XP again, I thought I'd outline the steps to making XP perform well.

Disable D2D in Bios
Purchase and install extra 1 GB of RAM for 1.5 GB total
NLite an XP Service Pack 3 CD
Gather the Aspire One drivers. Grab the latest Intel Chipset/VGA drivers from the Intel site
Install XP, formatting the SSD to FAT32
Install the drivers
Turn off Paging
Turn off System Restore
Install Firefox 3 and you're set

I haven't disabled prefetch but that's another option....

[bb320]

Wifi doesn't seem to work...sigh...

Prefetch does help alot, the disk doesn't write as much.

[Sidewinder]

My wifi is down as well, i can't seem to switch on the wifi card.
I push the button across and no green light, like it's dead.

[rjtd]

Can somebody post hdtach results when D2D is turned off, in Windows?
And btw, what is D2D?

On Linux the performance is good, and faster than eee701:
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 1190 MB in 2.00 seconds = 594.57 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 112 MB in 3.08 seconds = 36.31 MB/sec

(eee 701)
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 568 MB in 2.00 seconds = 283.49 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 86 MB in 3.01 seconds = 28.56 MB/sec

[Ariel]

And btw, what is D2D?

D2D is the Acer Disk to Disk Recovery it's used by many acer systems to restore corrupted boot partitions from a special hidden recovery partition.

of course it only works if there is enough space for another partition in the first place

[rjtd]

But how does it influence XP speed?

[Ariel]

But how does it influence XP speed?

Not sure about this one, I would not expect acer to come up with a new BIOS for every version of the one.. rather one version for every system based on the mainboard/chipset .

I'm guessing that maybe the bios looks for a partition on the ssd that doesn't exist.... the question then is.. does disabling the d2d Improve performance in the standard linpus lite as well?

would anyone like to test this theory?

[rjtd]

Did anyone tried to install ASUS EEE XP on Acer One?
Probably it is optimized for SSD.

[ramon2000]

Hi,

I still don't have the Aspire One, but I have found this web page to optimize Windows XP.

Probably some of the may tricks on them may be useful.

http://www.law.wustl.edu/computersuppor ... rmance.htm

Regards

[icebear]

@ bb320 & sidewinder:
wifi works with the drivers provided by acer,
the wlan switch is working either, its just the led which stays off - thats irritating