Windows 7 Experiences in installing and using XP in Acer aod257 netbook

The cost-effectiveness of Acer aod257 in netbooks is very high:

Atom n570: dual-core 4-thread, 1.66 GB

2 GB memory, 333 MHz in actual use, GB hard disk, mirror screen, other standard, no Bluetooth.

 

At the beginning, XP is installed.

Select winsetupfromusb for USB flash drive installation. For details, refer to the following webpage:

Http://blog.163.com/long200259@126/blog/static/11288755920091018925875/

For the first installation, you need to change the hard disk ahci mode to ide mode in the BIOS.

After installing XP, install hwinfo32 to find a wired or wireless Nic.

Download the corresponding public driver from another machine based on the network card name.

Download the "drive life" software and download the latest driver from other devices on the Internet.

 

In general, XP can be used, but there are several shortcomings that lead me to eventually give up XP, and I chose windows7:

There will be a small pause at intervals

Some shortcut keys are not supported. For example, disabling WiFi FN + F3 does not work.

The power supply management is poor, the CPU frequency is always 100%, and the frequency cannot be reduced automatically.

 

To install Windows 7, follow these steps:

Decompress the ISO of ghostversion win7 to drive D, which contains a "hard disk installation .exe"

Install it directly on the C drive in XP

The Acer official website has a win7 driver. You don't need to find it yourself.

The three disadvantages of the above XP are none.

In the computer, the CPU frequency is always 50%, and wireless, sound, and touchpad can be disabled to save the battery.

Wireless Internet access signals are also stable.

 

If the hard disk is in IDE mode, you can optimize it to ahci mode. Follow the method on this webpage:

Http://woxihuanpes.blog.163.com/blog/static/124232198200991733933657/

When the hard disk is in ahci mode, the temperature of the hard disk decreases significantly. If the hard disk is not operated, the temperature is below 40 degrees.

 

Summary:

Compared with XP, win7 does not change in speed. If you do not consider software compatibility, using win7 is a good choice.

In addition, due to the advantages of win7 power management, the temperature of netbooks is usually not very high,

You can stick to the battery for a period of time.

Win7 requires 2 GB of memory, and its memory mechanism is different from that of XP:

It seems to be a lot of use, but there are still a lot to use.

Atom n570 said that it does not support virtualization technology when it was checked online. The results showed that it was supported when it obtained the results,

This is an unexpected surprise.