Asus G1S OS problems

I tried installing XP Pro on my G1S-A1 and all I got was mass drivers problems and low performance. (Is there a XP G1S-A1 driver website?)

Then I tried to reinstall Vista using the recovery disk and the setup would never finish. (Is this because I deleted the recovery partition?)

 

I think I am going to try the XP installation again. I got a quick question about the partitions when I install XP. Is it best to make a small partition to install XP on and have the rest of the Hard drive space as DATA?

 

Using recovery disk will take 2 hours to finish and system will reboot several times during driver installation, it's only finish when the laptop turns off by itself.

Or you can manually install drivers by turn off the laptop when it says "please insert the driver CD", turn off the laptop and restart, it'll boot to Windows desktop with nothing install and you can simply insert the drivers CD and select whatever drivers/softwares you want to install.

 

All the XP drivers can be found from here.

I strongly suggest you read this guide and some of the others on around here, then get to installing XP. I just finished installing a fresh bloatware-free copy, and my 3dmark score is up more than 5% on my bloatware-filled Vista (I'm no good at figuring out which crap to remove, and then no good at removing it!) - no overclock or anything! Crysis demo even runs noticeably smoother, and is finally satisfying at high all (shaders+textures med, shadows low) settings!

What I did was shrink the pre-installed Data partition by 10GB with Gparted as explained in this guide. That took a few hours to do. Then, upon installing XP, I took that unallocated space and turned it into the XP install partition. You could probably get away with 5 or 6 GB, but I wanted a little extra space for the likes of MS Office and some non-games programs. There were LOTS or reboots as part of the process - after installing all those XP drivers I linked to above, and at least 4 or 5 from all the downloaded XP updates.

Be warned though, unless you download all the updates and make sure you have SP2, all slipstreamed onto the disc you install XP from, it will take quite a few hours to do all this. But WORTH IT! Booting XP takes such a refreshingly short time compared to the few minutes I was just waiting for the preinstalled Vista to let me actually DO anything.