Asus eeePC 1000HE ACPI / Resolution Issues

[rewind22x]

I'm having some issues with the ACPI service on this notebook. First a little background.

I received the machine on Friday, repartitioned the hard drive (thus destroying all the data) for a triple boot machine (XP, OSX, UBUNTU). Following various sources, I installed XP first, then OSX, finishing with Ubuntu. Everything in OSX (well, everything proven to work) and Ubuntu works fine, no issues. But in XP, I have the ACPI service running (which is normal) but it is switching/cycling the video resolutions. Sometimes it's doing it every minute but usually it does it, frustratingly, every three seconds. I've reinstalled the drivers (all of them, including video, chipset, etc), uninstalled and reinstalled, removed the service from startup (that is how I diagnosed that it may have something to do with it), etc. If I prevent it from starting up, things are fine, except all the other things associated with it (ie Fn + keys), of course, don't work. Anyone else having this issue? Or a similiar one? Any help would be awesome. Thanks.

 

[Cetra]

I don't know whether or not you will find much help here, but if you don't http://www.eeeuser.com/ is a very good source of help and information. They have been covering eee pcs since the 700 series.

Sorry I couldn't help more.

 

[rewind22x]

Thanks for the info. I have visited there in my many searches, but I never thought to actively search that specific site. I think it would be wise for me to create an account and post this there. I'll post the solution here as well, if one is to be had.

 

[rewind22x]

Well, for anyone interested, I think it was a bad stick of RAM. Swapped out the RAM and now no issues. We'll see if it holds up.

 

[rewind22x]

Well, for anyone interested, I think it was a bad stick of RAM. Swapped out the RAM and now no issues. We'll see if it holds up.

actually, no. The unit was bad. I sent it back today. Now I have to wait till at least friday for another... weak.

 

[namerodl]

actually, no. The unit was bad. I sent it back today. Now I have to wait till at least friday for another... weak.

sucks...

do people get bad units frequently?

im thinking about buying an eeepc 1000ha and i'd be mad if i got a bad unit

 

[rewind22x]

According to the reviews on newegg and assorted user forums, usually it's just problems with the trackpad. I haven't see anyone with my particular issue. I bought a 1000HA for my wife for Christmas and she loves it. It's running Windows 7 and it is solid. I bought this one and one other for work, both 1000HE's. the other one works fine, so I'm inclined to chalk it up to "you can't win em all". Newegg is shipping out a replacement. I have read threads of people wondering about getting an HE being told to get a HA; that the HA was rock solid. The HE comes with Bluetooth and a wireless N card. so if you don't care too much about that, I'd say go for it. They are pretty awesome.