i proberly sound like the village idot but i have a problem that is doing my f ern head in ijust can not open a download on my sons eepc 900a os is linux please help me before the thing gets smashed to bits
no .. don't.. it has a life of less than 6 months running xp with it's continual pagefile read/writes... that's why they only sell the ss version with linux.
learn to use what you have.. because xp doesn't work on these machines.. they don't have enough cpu and ram to run all the antivirus crap along with all the other M$ bloatware.
xandros isn't a great linux distro.. debian would probably be way better
How do you expect to be helped if you don't even say what it is you're trying to open? If it is an .exe file, well the answer is you're not running Windows, find a Linux equivalent, there are plenty out there for almost everything, and won't cost you a cent.
Good luck with getting Windows on there. Nowhere near as easy to install as Linux (you'll need an external CD/DVD drive or a LOT of fiddling around to force it to do anything from a USB), and nowhere near as fast as Linux.
I don't know if the 900A is SSD only or if there are hard disk models.
Either way the CPU appears to be the Intel Atom N270 (1.6GHz) in which case it has more than enough grunt for the full version of XP, Office, antivirus (my Acer netbook uses AVG Free 8.5) and some games.
If you do have an SSD version then XP will indeed kill the SSD drive in no time. You can strim down XP with programs such as nlite so XP runs 'lighter' but XP just isn't suited to an SSD machine. XP is only an alternative if you have a hard disk model.
Putting a version of Linux on there is a very good idea, and it'd be better than Xandros which you seem to be using ~ http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/758588
Like the others have said we need more to go on...
