{"id":449,"date":"2012-03-03T09:21:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T14:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2012-08-23T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:38:07","slug":"windows-8-cp-installed-on-eee-pc-netbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/03\/windows-8-cp-installed-on-eee-pc-netbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 CP Installed on Eee PC Netbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

My old ASUS Eee 1000HEB PC had been running the Windows 8 Developer Preview and I decided to see if I could \u201cupgrade\u201d it to the Windows 8 Consumer Preview via the web installer. I had previously performed some hacks to fix the problem of only 1000 x 600 screen resolution in order to get Metro Apps to work. I used an Intel video driver that I downloaded from Samsung:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/org.downloadcenter.samsung.com\/downloadfile\/ContentsFile.aspx?CDSite=DE&CttFileID=2505090&CDCttType=DR&ModelType=N&ModelName=NP-N130&VPath=DR\/200912\/20091218095907765\/Internal_VGA_Intel_32bit_8.15.10.1912.zip<\/a><\/p>\n

I also used a registry hack on the Developer Preview:<\/p>\n

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\ialm\\Device0]
"Display1_DownScalingEnabled"=hex:01,00,00,00<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The above gave me full functionality but a slightly skewed screen resolution. Nevertheless, the EeePC happily, albeit slowly, ran the W8 Developer Preview.<\/p>\n

I decided to try the web installer from http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows-8\/download<\/a><\/p>\n

The installer told me my devices were ok and I was able to get completely through setup using the Express route. Note that I did have a failure and a roll back when I tried the Customized route. Not sure why, but the end result was that I was able to install the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 on my old and dusty ASUS EeePC for testing purposes. After Windows 8 came up for the first time, I immediately installed the video drivers, then ran the reg file (not sure if this is actually needed, but\u2026). Then I rebooted, and then changed the desktop screen resolution to 1152 x 864 which gave me full Metro functionality including apps. Images below illustrate this success story:<\/p>\n

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My old ASUS Eee 1000HEB PC had been running the Windows 8 Developer Preview and I decided to see if I could \u201cupgrade\u201d it to the Windows 8 Consumer Preview via the web installer. I had previously performed some hacks to fix the problem of only 1000 x 600 screen resolution in order to get Metro Apps to work. I used an Intel video driver that I downloaded from Samsung: http:\/\/org.downloadcenter.samsung.com\/downloadfile\/ContentsFile.aspx?CDSite=DE&CttFileID=2505090&CDCttType=DR&ModelType=N&ModelName=NP-N130&VPath=DR\/200912\/20091218095907765\/Internal_VGA_Intel_32bit_8.15.10.1912.zip I also used a registry hack on the Developer Preview: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\ialm\\Device0] "Display1_DownScalingEnabled"=hex:01,00,00,00 The above gave me full functionality but a slightly skewed screen resolution.…<\/p>\n","category_list":"Windows 8<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"barbbowman","url":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/author\/barbbowman\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvFKI-7f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}