That seems to be a GPU driver issue, many of these netbook came with Intel GMA 500 that never had good drivers, even on Windows. The proprietary drivers doesn't works on Linux anymore and open-source drivers don't even handle 3D acceleration, only display. It means videos and graphics are being actually rendered by the CPU from llvmpipe. Unfortunately the only way to actually use GPU on this is by using 32-Bits versions of Windows 7 or XP. But check what GPU you got on this.
Or using old versions of Fedora, which was officially supported for this GPU and also had extended support to the proprietary drivers by X11 patches before open-source drivers arrived
@@NomadByte Windows 8 works, how do I know? My lenovo atom n2600 32 bit works with it. Also, use a chrome agent spoofer. So you get the mobile version of youtube. That way you can play youtube without any issue at all :). The only problem with windows 8 is that you will indeed have to install those .inf drivers manually. And perhaps changing that old wifi card would improve internet speed. Finding the gpu linux driver is almost imposible depending on your gpu, mine unfortunately is from an extinct company that intel doesnt want to talk about, so the linux driver is loong gone.
The reason why you failed to make the drive bootable was because you were trying to set up the partitions for a UEFI boot instead of MBR BIOS boot. Change the partition layout from GPT to MBR and you will get the bootable option. This isn't a thing for UEFI boot because the boot files are loaded from the EFI partition (The little one at the start of the drive) with no magic sector like MBR uses. You can start cfdisk with a -z flag to get there.
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this is crazy low spec lmao, and this video previously was in recommendations lol, I think you try and put ubuntu, debian, or arch or fedora on this machine it might run better.
More than the distribution, the important thing is to use a light desktop environment like lqxt or lqde, but having only 2gb of ram it is complicated xd
6:34 I have a netbook with an N450 and it really is amazing how hot it gets even when it isn't doing anything. Like, the total battery drain is less than 9 watts, how is this possible?!
I have an old netbook with this CPU, just out of curiosity I tried to run it with different heatsinks salvaged from dead motherboard chipsets. Even without a cooler, it was idling in Win7 at around 45C, but simply moving the mouse made it quickly burning hot for a second. The stock cooler, which was just an aluminum plate and a fan sucking the air out of the case, was enough to keep the temps at stable 70-ish degrees celsius in a stress test. The problem is that doing literally anything is a stress test for this thing.
Used to get a ton of gaming done on my old netbooks, stick XP or Tiny 7 on it. A cheap SSD and 2gb ram can go in if you have them lying around. Can get Half Life, Vice City, RtCW, AvP on there, stuff like that.
Cool video! I like the small form factor of these netbooks but they are generally awful. 2GB is still usable depending on your OS and CPU, but the Atom CPU was always a poor choice in these things. As for benchmarking, it might be worth trying Classicube through the browser or via Linix installation. It's a classic version of Minecraft that can run well on low spec machines.
You may want to try Q4OS Trinity (specifically the Trinity edition) or Adelie Linux to squeeze some additional performance from the system, though I don't know the process for installing Steam on either of those. For a more normal experience that's still lightweight, BunsenLabs Linux is designed to run well on lower end hardware like this, while maintaining normal compatibility with the Debian software ecosystem. Love your work man, great stuff as usual!
I would try gaming/emulation on 32 bit Batocera Linux (Batocera 5 for old machines). Not sure about the handling of the GPU driver somebody mentioned earlier, but it might just work! Nice vids, btw. Subbed and ready for more :)
Great machjne to have some old gems installed like baldyrs gate 1 & 2, planescape torment, roller coaster tycoon...for a while one of those was all i had and and did enjoyed some gems that flew past me back then.
You're gonna have way more fun installing FreeDOS on this than any period accurate operating system imo. At least with DOS games everything will be full speed even if you won't get any sound besides PC speaker.
I just stumbled upon this video thinking EEE was just an expression, but it's actually a EEE laptop I love this kind of video though, it only shows the process and not repeating about how weak it is (what do you expect?)
I had (still do!) a netbook - WinXP, 1GB RAM, 5400RPM HDD. It could run games roughly a decade its senior quite well (RA2, E:BfD, SADX), and that's all it needed from me :)
(1) There is a difference for puppy Linux between 32 bit and 64 bit (2) if you try to usb boot a 64bit it simply will not work (3) The last version of puppy that was 32 was 18.04 I think... (4) You should get approximately the same level of power as a atom 270 (5) Which is like a budget pc from 2002 with built in graphic about 32mb (6) Which is on par with the original xbox for gaming.🤔
@lucasrem Because there are alot of old chips that don't accept x64 OS... I should have googled his chip... Its the instructions set that you can see on intels website. ATOM n270 does not... its 32bit only
i wouldn't run a 64bit OS on this anyway. more memory usage for not much return. plus the 32-bit distros of linux tend to run on older kernels that are more likely to support older hardware like these. debian with a lightweight DE and minimal install might be good here.
I distinctly remember using one of these to play on a RuneScape Classic private server like 10+ years ago. Thank you for unsheathing a very specific memory LMFAO
here is something you can throw at it 1. damn small linux but people updated it 2. adalie linux mainly because this pc is just as much of a pentium 3 at this point
3:27 i have a ECS E09EI6 (basically the same EEE PC hardwarewise but in a cooler case, waffle maker style) and it had the same problem with Windows XP - it just didn't know how to make a bootloader on this type of SSD (it's USB 2.0 connected internally as my machine says), my workaround was - it can load the bootloader from the installer disc/usb and boot into your system after that
I have a same spec Samsung NC10. Installed Q4OS with Trinity desktop & Retroarch. I am able to play older console games NES, SNES, PCENGINE, ATARI800/2600/7800, C64,...
I tried installing steam on a similar system ( 2 logical processors, 15 Watt , 64 bit CPU, 2 G RAM) and the PC went super slow after Steam was installed. Cinnamon Mint was running well before the install of Steam.
Cinnamon is the last DE you should be running on such low-end hardware. Try the XFCE edition of Mint with the compositor disabled. It'd definitely run better.
I recently found an old Shuttle XS35, comes with Intel Atom D510, 2 gigs of DDR2 (even SO-DIMM) and has Nvidia ION GPU. It works with some older Linux Distros (tried AntiX and Mint XFCE), but there is no chance to get the Nvidia ION up and running for either of them. Tried Win 10 IoT and it works! Painfully slow for browsing and only managed to watch a single 480p video directly on youtube, but more than I ever managed on Linux. 720p is sluggish, but maybe would work better with VLC. I thought the 2GB were the bottleneck, but Win 10 IoT barely takes 500MB of RAM when idle But in the end I put it back in the box, its all passive but draws about 20-25 watts all the time. And gets destroyed by Intels N100 in comparison, in performance and power efficiency. But tinkering with this limited hardware is fun.
I’d run CrunchBang Plus Plus GNU/Linux on it. I have a lot of Netbooks (some 32-Bit others 64-bit) and with CrunchBang Plus Plus everything works out of the box always.
I have a similarly spec machine(atom n450) how do all the operating systems I tried. (Lubuntu, linux mint, Win 7, freebsd, haiku and Voidlinux glibc and musl) haiku was the best when it came to performace. But the worst when it came to UI. The best was voidlinux with XFCE with 1.2x scaling(it’s inverted in xfce.) windows 7 loaded fast but slow at running programs. Free BSD used all my RAM and there was none left for anything else than XFCE. Would recommend void Linux musl.
New sub!! When you change the hard drive can you put Windows 7 ultimate on It please? I would like to know how It would work on the Eee pc. Thank you. I look forward to your response.
it might actually be worth installing a 32 bit os even though it has a 64 bit processor, its not like it would be using more than 4 gigs of ram anyway though i also understand giving up on what is probably a pretty lost cause lol
And I thought my pc was bad lmao. I got an hp envy x360. It's really surprising the number of games I can play on 512mb of vram. Got 16gb of ram and a decent CPU. Only bottleneck I have is the integrated graphics card. But hey free is free.
@@WeatherMan2005 My main pc is a laptop from 2014. i7-4710HQ. The iGPU sucks. I mean seriously sucks. Not as bad as 945 was, but still sucks a lot. You've been warned.
Why cant u you use it for an emulation gaming just go back to some old os such as Windows xp , 2000 , ME , 98 , 95 or just use modern Os like windows 10 or 8 or 7 With atlas os installation custom windows for gaming use process lasso every os optimization Add the max amount of ram an SSD Virtual ram in windows itself if possible an Egpu then play some old games like mario 64 with emulators the maximum game it can handle is Nfs carbon 2006
@jonathanbabu-p2d you are essentially letting these devs maintain your whole os and you dont really know what they do to make it light. a well setup light linux distro like arch with something like i3 and a compositor can use 500mb of ram when idle, something these windows versions never will. With optimizer apps you are also letting them do changes that can break your system or disable something you actually do. And optimizers like hone are really bloated and dont do anything that boosts your perfomance a lot. so do a better research and avoid any optimizer apps. So try out linux mint,its desktop enviroment uses 700mb of ram. If you didn't like Mint and want another distro and less ram usage avoid the KDE desktop enviroment as it uses around 1G less than windows 10 does, so thats around 2G of ram usage.
It cant game its an obvious thing and Atom is too bad even for Office works atleast you need an AMD sempron , Athlon , FX series , A series In case of Intel atleast a Celeron , Pentium , Core , Centrino
That seems to be a GPU driver issue, many of these netbook came with Intel GMA 500 that never had good drivers, even on Windows. The proprietary drivers doesn't works on Linux anymore and open-source drivers don't even handle 3D acceleration, only display. It means videos and graphics are being actually rendered by the CPU from llvmpipe. Unfortunately the only way to actually use GPU on this is by using 32-Bits versions of Windows 7 or XP. But check what GPU you got on this.
Or using old versions of Fedora, which was officially supported for this GPU and also had extended support to the proprietary drivers by X11 patches before open-source drivers arrived
If you're going to try this PLEEEEEEASEEEE use old Fedora lol
@@VolpeJoseskah I see. I'll check what GPU is in here but I may try out windowx 7/ xp and put some old games on there or something.
Please try old Fedora >w<
There's so few comtent trying this and every video out there tries old Windows to try to game on these things
@@NomadByte Windows 8 works, how do I know? My lenovo atom n2600 32 bit works with it.
Also, use a chrome agent spoofer. So you get the mobile version of youtube. That way you can play youtube without any issue at all :).
The only problem with windows 8 is that you will indeed have to install those .inf drivers manually.
And perhaps changing that old wifi card would improve internet speed.
Finding the gpu linux driver is almost imposible depending on your gpu, mine unfortunately is from an extinct company that intel doesnt want to talk about, so the linux driver is loong gone.
An absolute beast of a machine for Windows 98
Nerdy people do UNIX games on cheap waist, was that the Africa windows notebook ?
Correct
The reason why you failed to make the drive bootable was because you were trying to set up the partitions for a UEFI boot instead of MBR BIOS boot. Change the partition layout from GPT to MBR and you will get the bootable option. This isn't a thing for UEFI boot because the boot files are loaded from the EFI partition (The little one at the start of the drive) with no magic sector like MBR uses. You can start cfdisk with a -z flag to get there.
Oh and side thing if you want opengl acceleration for things like classicube you'll need to replace the mesa package with the mesa-amber package.
this video is actually too high quality coming from such a small channel, keep it up
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this is crazy low spec lmao, and this video previously was in recommendations lol, I think you try and put ubuntu, debian, or arch or fedora on this machine it might run better.
More than the distribution, the important thing is to use a light desktop environment like lqxt or lqde, but having only 2gb of ram it is complicated xd
@@shaielecheverria5750 a window manager is also a good idea.
Void Linux works amazingly well on these old PCs. No bloat at all, and runit boots faster than systemd.
atleast the cpu clock isn't MHz...
6:34 I have a netbook with an N450 and it really is amazing how hot it gets even when it isn't doing anything. Like, the total battery drain is less than 9 watts, how is this possible?!
Yeah it has a fan as well like you'd think it wouldn't get so hot lol
I have an old netbook with this CPU, just out of curiosity I tried to run it with different heatsinks salvaged from dead motherboard chipsets. Even without a cooler, it was idling in Win7 at around 45C, but simply moving the mouse made it quickly burning hot for a second.
The stock cooler, which was just an aluminum plate and a fan sucking the air out of the case, was enough to keep the temps at stable 70-ish degrees celsius in a stress test. The problem is that doing literally anything is a stress test for this thing.
You have Michael MJD vibe cranked up to 100! Awesome content, love it
Haha that's good to hear thanks! I watch his stuff regularly.
this is actually fire...subbed instantly
Used to get a ton of gaming done on my old netbooks, stick XP or Tiny 7 on it. A cheap SSD and 2gb ram can go in if you have them lying around.
Can get Half Life, Vice City, RtCW, AvP on there, stuff like that.
I like this kind of video and also Eee PCs. Subbed!
thanks!
Your content is good and you are a kind guy
I've got the same kind of your laptop and unfortunately it was dead.
Nice video, I have an Eee PC too with 1GB, gonna try stuff with it later. Subbed
I have an Eee pc too and i love your videos!
Not many have an ASUS Eee PC, most have notebooks only
Why you still use it, running what on it ?
Try old DOS games like Dangerous Dave, CD-MAN, Wolf3d, Doom etc. in DOSBOX-X.
He needs UNIX games ????
why Eee waist it ?
crazy channel already
Cool video!
I like the small form factor of these netbooks but they are generally awful. 2GB is still usable depending on your OS and CPU, but the Atom CPU was always a poor choice in these things.
As for benchmarking, it might be worth trying Classicube through the browser or via Linix installation. It's a classic version of Minecraft that can run well on low spec machines.
not bad i just found today and i already love your videos
You may want to try Q4OS Trinity (specifically the Trinity edition) or Adelie Linux to squeeze some additional performance from the system, though I don't know the process for installing Steam on either of those.
For a more normal experience that's still lightweight, BunsenLabs Linux is designed to run well on lower end hardware like this, while maintaining normal compatibility with the Debian software ecosystem. Love your work man, great stuff as usual!
Love this eeepeecee
I would try gaming/emulation on 32 bit Batocera Linux (Batocera 5 for old machines). Not sure about the handling of the GPU driver somebody mentioned earlier, but it might just work! Nice vids, btw. Subbed and ready for more :)
Great machjne to have some old gems installed like baldyrs gate 1 & 2, planescape torment, roller coaster tycoon...for a while one of those was all i had and and did enjoyed some gems that flew past me back then.
You're gonna have way more fun installing FreeDOS on this than any period accurate operating system imo. At least with DOS games everything will be full speed even if you won't get any sound besides PC speaker.
I just stumbled upon this video thinking EEE was just an expression, but it's actually a EEE laptop
I love this kind of video though, it only shows the process and not repeating about how weak it is (what do you expect?)
Fun fact: The OG Acer One Netbook could play Halo CE!
UA-cam knows how much I love old computers being pushed to their limits lol
try debian with an even more lightweight desktop like lxqt or/and q4os trinity, would be interesting to see on this little machine
torchlight is a nice diablo clone from back in the day, it was designed to run on netbooks specifically. it even has a linux version.
That hardware is so so so low end but there's some distros like CuerdOS, that distro performs well on these underpowered netbooks
I had (still do!) a netbook - WinXP, 1GB RAM, 5400RPM HDD.
It could run games roughly a decade its senior quite well (RA2, E:BfD, SADX), and that's all it needed from me :)
(1) There is a difference for puppy Linux between 32 bit and 64 bit
(2) if you try to usb boot a 64bit it simply will not work
(3) The last version of puppy that was 32 was 18.04 I think...
(4) You should get approximately the same level of power as a atom 270
(5) Which is like a budget pc from 2002 with built in graphic about 32mb
(6) Which is on par with the original xbox for gaming.🤔
Huiman ???
Why still use 32 bit now ???
@lucasrem
Because there are alot of old chips that don't accept x64 OS...
I should have googled his chip...
Its the instructions set that you can see on intels website.
ATOM n270 does not... its 32bit only
@@lucasrem I actually rewatched the video
I MIGHT BE WRONG
I THINK HE did actually say it was a 64bit...
Opps 🤔🙄
i wouldn't run a 64bit OS on this anyway. more memory usage for not much return. plus the 32-bit distros of linux tend to run on older kernels that are more likely to support older hardware like these. debian with a lightweight DE and minimal install might be good here.
I distinctly remember using one of these to play on a RuneScape Classic private server like 10+ years ago. Thank you for unsheathing a very specific memory LMFAO
if you want a lightweight version of Linux Mint try the XFCE distro of Cinnamon. That's what i use for older dual and single core systems.
Cinnamon is a waste of resources on older hardware, and even newer ones, really. The XFCE version is the only one worth using IMO...
here is something you can throw at it
1. damn small linux but people updated it
2. adalie linux
mainly because this pc is just as much of a pentium 3 at this point
3:27 i have a ECS E09EI6 (basically the same EEE PC hardwarewise but in a cooler case, waffle maker style) and it had the same problem with Windows XP - it just didn't know how to make a bootloader on this type of SSD (it's USB 2.0 connected internally as my machine says), my workaround was - it can load the bootloader from the installer disc/usb and boot into your system after that
My Asus Eee Book runs HL2 and Minecraft with 2 GB RAM and Quadcore CPU. And Windows 10 is on it.
The next time you film a video about this laptop try installing chrome os flex on it I'm curious on how it would perform on that operating system?
At least the YT ad played fine, LOL.
I used to play Minecraft on a 900mhz single core Atom powered EeePC
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I have a same spec Samsung NC10. Installed Q4OS with Trinity desktop & Retroarch. I am able to play older console games NES, SNES, PCENGINE, ATARI800/2600/7800, C64,...
I tried installing steam on a similar system ( 2 logical processors, 15 Watt , 64 bit CPU, 2 G RAM) and the PC went super slow after Steam was installed. Cinnamon Mint was running well before the install of Steam.
Cinnamon is the last DE you should be running on such low-end hardware. Try the XFCE edition of Mint with the compositor disabled. It'd definitely run better.
who is cee and why he eepy
he's a rapper.
Underrated
HE STOLE IT FROM DANKPODS NOOO
Install Win XP and get some games from late 90s and early 2000s. You have plenty of computing power for that.
I recently found an old Shuttle XS35, comes with Intel Atom D510, 2 gigs of DDR2 (even SO-DIMM) and has Nvidia ION GPU. It works with some older Linux Distros (tried AntiX and Mint XFCE), but there is no chance to get the Nvidia ION up and running for either of them. Tried Win 10 IoT and it works! Painfully slow for browsing and only managed to watch a single 480p video directly on youtube, but more than I ever managed on Linux. 720p is sluggish, but maybe would work better with VLC. I thought the 2GB were the bottleneck, but Win 10 IoT barely takes 500MB of RAM when idle
But in the end I put it back in the box, its all passive but draws about 20-25 watts all the time. And gets destroyed by Intels N100 in comparison, in performance and power efficiency. But tinkering with this limited hardware is fun.
Bruh u need more subs
you can try to install windows xp
How much storage does it have? Would Windows XP fit on it, for some retro gaming?
It's got 8gb, I think windows XP would probably fit on it. Maybe I'll try that.
@NomadByte please try old Fedora >w
@NomadByte there are also various XP recovery cds on the archive site.
@@VolpeJosesk I'll try that before I try windows I think
you can use a bigger Nvme !
Damn you'd be lucky to play PONG on that thing lol
gamink (I would personally install windows xp and play some old school games, like Heroes of Might and Magic 3, or Red Alert 2)
It's the Eee Pee Cee
Xfce is too heavy for that lil guy, try a window manager on void base
I’d run CrunchBang Plus Plus GNU/Linux on it. I have a lot of Netbooks (some 32-Bit others 64-bit) and with CrunchBang Plus Plus everything works out of the box always.
I have a similarly spec machine(atom n450) how do all the operating systems I tried. (Lubuntu, linux mint, Win 7, freebsd, haiku and Voidlinux glibc and musl) haiku was the best when it came to performace. But the worst when it came to UI. The best was voidlinux with XFCE with 1.2x scaling(it’s inverted in xfce.) windows 7 loaded fast but slow at running programs. Free BSD used all my RAM and there was none left for anything else than XFCE.
Would recommend void Linux musl.
New sub!! When you change the hard drive can you put Windows 7 ultimate on It please? I would like to know how It would work on the Eee pc. Thank you. I look forward to your response.
It's on the list of things to try with it!
Ok, i will wait, Thanks, aprecciate! Greetings from Spain!!
dankpods moment
Mine died with bsod when I plugged it on 240hz monitor
well that igpu probably cant handle 240hz rendering
hello gamer
the eepy see
sleebiest computer
Freaking Atom!
What is the model number of that netbook?
BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS?
it might actually be worth installing a 32 bit os even though it has a 64 bit processor, its not like it would be using more than 4 gigs of ram anyway
though i also understand giving up on what is probably a pretty lost cause lol
Take it apart, clean it, and upgrade it if possible, then install Linux on it.
I have Antix on my hp mini it runs pretty awesome
Don't try to use an Atom processor for contemporary gaming
Funnily enough my thinkpad x61 with very similar specs (core2 running on 1.8ghz and 1.5 gigs of ram) works slightly better on same void livecd.
And I thought my pc was bad lmao. I got an hp envy x360. It's really surprising the number of games I can play on 512mb of vram. Got 16gb of ram and a decent CPU. Only bottleneck I have is the integrated graphics card. But hey free is free.
im gonna be gaming on a 4th gen laptop igpu next week on my dell latitude E6540. 128mb of vram i think
@@WeatherMan2005 My main pc is a laptop from 2014. i7-4710HQ. The iGPU sucks. I mean seriously sucks. Not as bad as 945 was, but still sucks a lot. You've been warned.
@@TrusteftTech oh im aware it sucks. I used to use a desktop i5 3rd gen igpu. But hey at least you have an i7
@@WeatherMan2005 That's like saying at least you have diabetes.
@@TrusteftTech i dont think that makes sense. The cpu upgrade sounds nice
mjd aah content
try android x86 +usb wifi dongle
try to install windows 7 on it!
Why cant u you use it for an emulation gaming just go back to some old os such as Windows xp , 2000 , ME , 98 , 95 or just use modern Os like windows 10 or 8 or 7 With atlas os installation custom windows for gaming use process lasso every os optimization Add the max amount of ram an SSD Virtual ram in windows itself if possible an Egpu then play some old games like mario 64 with emulators the maximum game it can handle is Nfs carbon 2006
windows is too bloated for this. Linux is the only option
@@henry789 What about Atlas Os windows version Tiny 11 windows version and apps like cortex optimizer hp omen optimizer process lasso
@jonathanbabu-p2d you are essentially letting these devs maintain your whole os and you dont really know what they do to make it light.
a well setup light linux distro like arch with something like i3 and a compositor can use 500mb of ram when idle, something these windows versions never will.
With optimizer apps you are also letting them do changes that can break your system or disable something you actually do. And optimizers like hone are really bloated and dont do anything that boosts your perfomance a lot.
so do a better research and avoid any optimizer apps.
So try out linux mint,its desktop enviroment uses 700mb of ram.
If you didn't like Mint and want another distro and less ram usage avoid the KDE desktop enviroment as it uses around 1G less than windows 10 does, so thats around 2G of ram usage.
@@henry789 I hate linux i tried lubuntu
@jonathanbabu-p2d if you are a windows user give linux mint a try. i dont really know if lubuntu is any good or what issues did you have.
Eee pc : lubuntu os - zorin os v15 - windows 7/xp - bionic os - antex os - haiku os - kali Linux v2016/ lite - tiny core os = √ 🎉
Eeee pc mor lik ewast pc >:3
install batocera
It cant game its an obvious thing and Atom is too bad even for Office works atleast you need an AMD sempron , Athlon , FX series , A series In case of Intel atleast a Celeron , Pentium , Core , Centrino
Puppy linux is better for this ugly machine 😂
i have the same baytrail processor just the 4 core variant still smooth with win 11 64bit
Linux equals AUTOMATIC DISLIKE
Lmao this made me laugh
iremise re vaggo kai egw windows mainarw alla giati toso hate
It's the Windows Africa Phone Notebook ;)
Why UNIX ?