20 Most Recent ASUS Eee PC 900 Notebook - Page 9 Questions & Answers

There is no update for the Atheros Wireless Card however you can reinstall the drivers from the link below and it should work..

Driver Download

Regards,
Ron

to format a computer, go to start, then click all programs, accessories, then RIGHT CLICK command prompt. RIGHT CLICK. hit run a administrator. then when the black window pops up, type:
format x
replace x with whatever drive you want to format. hope I helped.

maybe you should upgrade your memory to speed up your machine,if you have only 1 gb of RAM,replace it with 2gb or just other one (1gb to other slot same specifications with your old one)..ask some advises to the dealer

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

If you were to log on to the manufacturer's web site, usually one is able to download if available, by model number, All available Driver downloads as required.

This is the best way of ensuring up to date drivers for your system and they are free of charge!

There are no XP drivers to be found with Microsoft as XP is no longer supported.

Some manufacturers may have a limited number of Drivers still listed.

I hope this helps.

Has the notebook been upgraded/rebuilt/repaired at all since new? Commonly the cause for it not picking up the button press is if its been rebuilt with fresh operating system and the drivers to pick up the Fn keypresses was not installed therefore its not monitoring the keypresses.
Can you try other Fn combinations and see if any others work please.
If nothign else works then it is what I think it is, and we'll need to go through and re enable this either by reinstalling the service or finding where its disabled and enable it. Please try the above first,

Would have liked to have a little bit more information from you ;)

• What operating system do you have installed?
• What operating system do you want installed?

If you are willing to try a non MS windows operating system, here is a solution; go to this page:

http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook/get-ubuntu/download

Click on the Start Download button. While downloading, have a look at option 2 "Create a USB drive". Click the appropriate radio button (Win, Mac, Ubuntu), then click the "Show me" button for instructions.

Using this option, you do not need a disc drive, just a USB stick. This software is free so you do not need to purchase a new Windows (or pirate a windows copy).

I use this operating system myself on all my computers and I am very happy with it.

Hope this helps ;)

from the sound of it, it is not the hard drive that is the problem it is most likely the sytem board of the notebook, just to make sure you should try booting with a UBUNTU 10.10 live CD if all is well then you have a case of REINSTALLING WINDOWS welcom to the microsoft world...

Good luck!

It's a hardware failure - the hard disk has died. You will have to replace it then reinstall using an external cd unit and an XP install disk - ideally the recovery disk should be used.

the keyboards break real easy they are easy to change there is 2 or 3 tiny clips along the top of the keyboard you have to push them back with a small screwdriver and lift the keyboard away and disconnect ribbon from the main unit, the touch pad is built into the case and connected to the main board with a tiny ribbon connector, check the ribbon is connected correctly, be carefull its easy to break off if the case is opened, if it looks connected ok but still not working check the driver is correct, the drivers are available from the asus website

During the boot process you will see on the screen to press a certain key to enter setup Press and hold that key during the boot up process to enter BIOS you can load failsafe defaults or load optimized defaults ,press escape then press f10 to save to cmos to restart then once you have your computer running try uninstalling a few unnecessary programs then click start run type cmd then type chkdsk/r/f which will scan for and attempt to fix any bad sectors and automatically fix any corrupt files on your hard drive this should schedule when you restart then defragment your hard drive hope this helps

NTLDR is missing" means that the Windows boot loader (NT Loader, NTLDR) cannot be found. This often occurs when the computer tries to boot from a drive other than the one Windows is installed on, due to a change in the drive configuration or because you left a bootable disk in a removable drive. But it may also be because the NTLDR file has been corrupted or deleted

Check that there are no CDs or DVDs in the CD/DVD drives.

Check that no removable drives are plugged in to the USB ports.

Check the boot order in the BIOS Setup to ensure that the computer boots from the drive containing Windows before any other bootable devices

However, if your computer is using Windows XP and you have a Windows XP installation CD you may be able to boot from this and use the Recovery Console to fix NTLDR manually .

I'm assuming you mean re-install windows?
I did this a while ago and rather than typing it all out, I would recommend you to this link, its complicated but if you follow it step by step you should be ok. Make sure you have the SATA drivers for this laptop FIRST though

http://komku.blogspot.com/2008/11/install-windows-xp-using-usb-flash-disk.html

Every time you turn it on it boots...If you mean how do you reinstall the operating system then you can use USB flashdrive or external cd/dvd drive

press CTRL+ALT+DEL at the same time then "shut down>restart

i had the same problem with my acer laptop. here what i did. 1st i removed the battery and powered it on without the battery. (work fine) 2nd i got a replacement battery. (worked fine) 3rd i put the old battery in to make sure that was the problem. (it did the same thing) 4th this lead me to believe that the battery was bad. (i was wrong) 2 weeks later it started doing the same thing. 5th i took the old battery apart and removed the cells out of it and just put the case back on. (it been working for 3 years without that problem) only problem no battery power just the cord. my educated guess is something is going on with the internal battery charger. hope this help a little. Thank you.

It should start downloading automatically when you insert it in CD Rom or USB Flash Drive If it does not start Goto > My Computer > right click the drive you want to upload and select Open /or double click on it ,it will start uploading

YOU WILL NEED TO DO A DESTRUCTIVE RESTORE, THIS WILL FORMAT YOUR HARD DRIVE AND PUT ALL INFO BACK AS THOUGH YOU'VE JUST PURCHASED IT..
I DONT KNOW WHAT OPERATING SOFTWARE YOU ARE RUNNING(WINDOWS:XP,VISTA,LINEX,ECT...
YOU NEED THE MACHINE COMPLETELY OFF FOR BOUT 30 SECONDS
1. AS SOON AS IT START START TAPPING F9 KEY.
2. THIS WILL GIVE YOU A FEW OPTIONS AND YOU WANT THE RESTORE MENU
3. IT MAY ASK YOU IF YOU ARE SURE PRESS (Y)ES
4. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS AS IT COLLECT INFO TO RESTORE YOUR MACHINE..
5. IT WILL ASK FOR USER INFO
6. IT WILL ASK FOR YOU TO INPUT A PASSWORD, KEYBOARD TYPE(ENGLISH)
FOLLOW THE REST OF THE PROMPTS MAY TAKE 5-15 MINUTES TO FINISH AND YOU ARE READY

I guess the key j is struck or is dislocated from its seat
if the system is under warrenty you can contact asus who will replace the keyboard
else you will have to open the keyboard and fix it manually